First Year of Call

Areas of Practice
Corporate Commercial Securities,

Description
Jen is a partner in the Capital Markets and Securities group. Jen acts for both companies and registered dealers in a broad range of industries, and has extensive expertise working with junior issuers listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and Canadian Securities Exchange.

In over 20 years of practice, she has been involved in numerous significant financings (public offerings and private placements) and complex commercial agreements for clients in the natural resource, cannabis and sports sectors. Jen also provides strategic advice on matters related to corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations, and has assisted clients in navigating many challenging financial and regulatory environments. She currently sits on the TSX Venture Exchange’s Ontario Advisory Committee which provides advice and recommendations to the Exchange on all policy, operational and strategic issues that are likely to have a significant impact on the public venture capital market and the role of the Exchange.

Jen has previously contributed as a legal commentator on CBC Metro Morning, and for the Globe and Mail and CBC Investigative Reports series. She is a professor at Brock University in sports law, as well as a frequent lecturer at Osgoode Hall Law School and the TSX Venture Exchange. She was recently appointed by the Ministry of the Attorney General as a part-time adjudicator on the Ontario Land Tribunal. Jen also previously served as an instructor in various continuing legal education topics, and as a director and treasurer of several non-profit organizations.