Background

Jeffrey Graham is a partner practising in the Toronto office, where he provides regulatory and transactional advice to Canadian and international commercial and financial services entities. Jeff holds B.Comm. and B.C.L./LL.B. degrees from McGill University and graduate degrees in international legal studies from Cambridge and Columbia universities. He is a member of the Bars of D.C. and Ontario.

Areas of Practice

• Corporate and Financial Services
• Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
• Government Relations

Rankings and Recognitions

• Recognized in the 2010 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Biotechnology)

Professional Experience

• Advises domestic and international financial services entities in respect of corporate, regulatory compliance, lending and venture capital transactions.
• Act for healthcare corporations and investors in financing and licensing transactions and in respect of regulatory compliance and corporate law matters.
• Provides strategic public policy advice to financial and health sector participants, federally and provincially.
• Previously senior legal advisor to Government of Ontario on financial services issues, including insurance, securities, pensions and deposit institutions and senior financial services counsel in connection with international trade and government procurement issues.
• Previously practiced corporate and securities law with Washington, DC – based law firm focusing on financial services and cross border trade in services
• Widely published on corporate, biotechnology, international financial law matters including author of CCH commentaries on federal banking, trust and insurance law, past senior co-editor of Canadian Financial Services Alert (Butterworths), past Washington editor of Trade Law Topics (Butterworths) and regular contributor to biotechnology/pharmaceutical periodicals.

Professional and Community Activities

• Member of Steering Committee, Toronto Financial Services Alliance.
• Member, Board of Directors of various share and non-share capital corporations active in financial and health sectors.
• Past President of Toronto Biotechnology Initiative.
• Past President of The Association of Canadian Pension Management.
• Frequent speaker at Insight, Canadian Institute, Infonex and International Bar Association Section and Business Law conferences on biotechnology, financial and international law matters.