Donna practices corporate law, especially as it relates to the highly regulated insurance and investment management industries. She provides advice on day-to-day activities as well as extraordinary situations, with a focus on regulatory compliance, market conduct, governance issues and transactional matters.
Experience
Advises on regulatory, compliance, licensing/registration and commercial issues and drafts related agreements.
Engages with the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) and provincial securities and insurance regulators.
Advises with respect to the incorporation, organization and licensing of securities advisors/dealers/investment fund managers and insurance brokers/agents.
Advises in connection with investment products, including investment funds and segregated funds.
Advises buyers and sellers in corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations.
Moderator, “Data Privacy – A consumer’s perspective”, The 62nd Annual Canadian Reinsurance Conference, April 19, 2018 Speaker “Segregated Funds: Flashes of Regulatory Arbitrage”, BLG: You can’t Save the World Alone…, November 9, 2017
PRESENTATION
Recent Seminars for Clients: Independent Review Committee Orientation Session; Targeted Reforms – Proposals to Enhance the Obligations of Advisers, Dealers and Representatives toward their Clients; Targeted Reforms and Aging Investors; Sales Communications; Promotional Contests and Inducements.
PRESENTATION
Member, IFIC Legal and Compliance Issues Working Group
Member, Canadian Bar Association (business law section)
Member, National Society of Compliance Professionals
Community Involvement
Chair, Turning Point Youth Services
Awards & Recognitions
Recognized in the 2019 edition (and previous editions) of Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Investment Funds & Asset Management).
Selected by peers for inclusion in the 2021 edition (and since 2011) of The Best Lawyers in Canada® (Mutual Funds Law).
Recognized as a 2019 Acritas Star.
Honoured with a 2014 Lexpert® Zenith Award (Corporate Finance and Securities).
Bar Admission & Education
Ontario, 1998
LLB,
York University, 1996
BSc (with High Dist.),
University of Toronto, 1993
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