Experience

Adelson Law

• Canada
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal

  • Feb 2020 - Present



QCC - OPS - Quarter Century Club

• Member of the Board of Directors

  • Sep 2020 - Present



TanenbaumCHAT

• Canada
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member of the Board of Directors

  • Dec 2019 - Present



Invesco Canada

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Vice-President, Legal; Head of Legal - Canada

  • 2008 - Dec 2018

  Invesco Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Invesco, Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), a global investment management firm with nearly $1 trillion AUM worldwide. In the Canadian business, nearly all AUM in mutual funds. Responsible for all legal advice for Invesco Canada and its Canadian affiliates. Member of Canadian Executive Committee and Corporate Risk Management Committee. - Led legal effort to create Canada’s first Platform Traded Funds (PTF), a mutual fund series designed to trade like Exchange Traded Funds (ETF). Received approval from each main branch of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) as well as the unprecedented OSC agreement permitting sub-transfer agency payments to dealer. - Advised portfolio managers on numerous shareholder activism files. Succeeded in effecting necessary change within the Board of Directors.- Met ambitious deadlines to negotiate a creative win-win agreement to outsource Fund Administration Services, the transfer of custody of client assets, and employee lift out to a leading Canadian financial institution.- Carried out a complex, high-risk two-stage reorganization of the Invesco mutual fund corporations, consolidating them to a single corporation, keeping the voting trust structure intact and preventing a change of control from occurring.

• Interim Chief Compliance Officer (2012, 2017)

  • 2017 - 2017

  In 2017 and 2012, led search for new Invesco Canada Chief Compliance Officer, oversaw the department (staff of 10), and oversaw Short-Term Trading and Compliance Oversight Committees while retaining Head of Legal duties.



Mackenzie Financial

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services

• Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary

  • 2001 - 2008

  Mackenzie Financial is a wholly-owned subsidiary of IGM Financial Inc., a member of the Power Financial group of companies. Mackenzie is an investment fund manager serving all retail channels in Canada and institutional channels.Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary (2007 – 2008)Vice President, Legal and Assistant Secretary (2005 – 2007)Assistant Vice President, Legal (2003 – 2004)Senior Legal Counsel (2002)Senior Legal Counsel (2001)Reporting to the President & CEO, responsible for all legal matters affecting the corporation. - Created Canada’s first synthetic bond fund, Mackenzie Managed Return Class. Liaised with external tax / derivatives counsel for bank counterparty. New fund led to rapid growth of character conversion funds and ultimately $25B of new fund investment. - Negotiated a $25M credit facility with Scotiabank for mutual fund overdrafts with 200 bps lower credit costs. - Part of deal team for acquisition of Putnam Investments.



Gowling WLG

• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate, Smith Lyons LLP

  • 1996 - 2001

  Smith Lyons LLP was a large full-service Toronto law firm that merged with Gowlings in 2001. Articling Student, then Associate. Practised corporate, securities and competition law, the latter requiring having to learn a new industry every two weeks. Smith Lyons LLP was a large full-service Toronto law firm that merged with Gowlings in 2001. Articling Student, then Associate. Practised corporate, securities and competition law, the latter requiring having to learn a new industry every two weeks.