Alethea Au

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2004

Areas of Practice
Mergers & Acquisitions

Description
Alethea Au is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group (with a focus on technology companies). She has counselled a range of clients including private equity funds, strategic corporate buyers, and founder clients across various industries in complex matters related to mergers and acquisitions, including structuring, risk mitigation, divestitures, minority and majority investments, use of representation and warranty insurance and related transactional and transitional issues.

She also has expertise in a wide range of corporate commercial matters relating to information technology, including technology exploitation (development and commercialization) and e-commerce, licensing, joint ventures, business process outsourcings, general corporate commercial and corporate governance matters. Her experience extends across different industries including financial services, insurance, retail, telecommunications and the provision of software and related services.

The extent of Alethea’s expertise and experience in both M&A and technology allows her to provide valued advice to clients in an efficient and practical manner in both M&A transactions and ongoing corporate commercial transactions (especially in the technology sector).

Professional Activities
Alethea is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association, the American Bar Association, International Technology Law Association (member of the Tech Mergers & Acquisitions Substantive Law Committee), the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals and Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) Women in Technology (WIT) Toronto Chapter.

Alethea was also Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School from 2016 to 2019.