Kent provides strategic business advice to senior management and boards of directors on mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure and energy projects, joint ventures and corporate finance transactions.
Kent spent 20+ years as a senior corporate commercial law partner at BLG. Between 2020-2023, he took on non-legal roles at the highest levels of the Department of Finance in Ottawa, initially as a Senior Adviser to the Deputy Minister of Finance during the COVID-19 pandemic and then as an Assistant Deputy Minister of a corporate finance-focused branch. During his time in Ottawa, Kent was a lead negotiator who provided public policy and investment advice to the Government of Canada, including the Minister of Finance, on major equity and debt investments in commercial entities and projects.