Experience

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  Navacord

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Senior Vice President & General Counsel

    • Sep 2019 - Present
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Member of Executive team accountable for managing the enterprise's legal function.

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  Extendicare Inc.

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

    • May 2017 - Sep 2019
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Member of the Executive Team accountable for managing the enterprise’s legal function, and for helping define and facilitate the achievement of strategic initiatives and broader corporate goals.

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  Centric Health

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

    • Mar 2015 - May 2017
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Member of the Executive team and strategic advisor to the Board accountable for managing the enterprise’s legal, corporate secretarial and regulatory functions, and for helping define and facilitate the achievement of strategic initiatives and broader corporate goals. In this capacity, designed and implemented the company’s legal support model and established processes and procedures to enable same while overseeing the legal elements of a wide array of complex transactions, including, multiple corporate finance transactions and acquisitions, and supporting the day-to-day operations and the build-out of an enhanced organizational governance model.

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  GFL Environmental Inc.

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Vice President Legal

    • May 2014 - Feb 2015
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    As a member of GFL’s senior management team, advised the founder/CEO, senior management and other stakeholders, including its independent Board members, on a wide range of matters integral to the achievement of its strategic goals, including, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions and complex institutional and government customer contracting / procurement processes, as well as general enterprise risk management. In this capacity, was responsible for the corporate secretarial function for its portfolio of legal entities and was actively involved in its note holder continuous disclosure practices. In connection with this, oversaw multiple tuck-in acquisitions and developed and implemented cross functional processes necessary to enable the efficient handling of complex customer contracting processes and other processes / practices necessitated by its rapid growth.

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  Direct Energy

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Senior Legal Counsel

    • May 2004 - Apr 2014
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    As lead lawyer supporting Direct Energy's corporate functions and operations, advised senior stakeholders on a wide variety of complex commercial arrangements, corporate governance, pension and benefits matters, banking/finance arrangements, merger and acquisition transactions, and other matters relevant to Direct Energy’s rapidly growing and evolving Canadian and US operations, all within the context of the global and more mature Centrica plc group. In this capacity led a small team of well-respected and highly effective and engaged legal professionals with ongoing responsibility for Direct Energy’s corporate secretarial function, the management of its trademark/IP portfolio and the orderly operation of the Centrica group share incentive programs within North America, and advised on a wide variety of related issues. At various times served as a member of the senior management teams of two of Direct Energy’s operating units and of its Pension Committee, and managed its litigation portfolio. Also acted as the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of The Consumers Waterheater Income Fund (now EnerCare), a TSX listed Direct Energy spin-off, in connection with Direct Energy's role as external administrator advising its senior management and its Board of Trustees on continuous disclosure and corporate governance matters, among other things.

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  The Consumers' Waterheater Income Fund

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

    • Apr 2006 - Dec 2007
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    As General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to this TSX traded income fund spun-off by Direct Energy advised senior management and its Board of Trustees on continuous disclosure, securities and other corporate governance matters.

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  Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Associate Corporate Counsel

    • 2001 - 2004
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Advised on the legal aspects of the company's existing and development stage fractional ownership and mixed use resorts and on securities and corporate compliance, including, continuous disclosure.

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  Torys LLP

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Associate

    • 1998 - 2002
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    As a member of the corporate department of this leading Canadian full-service Toronto/New York based law firm advised: ▪ Borrowers on syndicated secured lending arrangements▪ Bidders and target companies in connection with friendly and hostile public take-over bids and a number of private merger and acquisition transactions▪ Issuers and underwriters in public and private equity and debt financings▪ Purchasers, vendors and developers in commercial real estate and joint venture transactions▪ Clients more generally on a wide array of corporate and commercial matters