Michelle MacGillivray

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2005

Areas of Practice
Mergers & Acquisitions

Description
Michelle MacGillivray has built a reputation for creativity, excellence, and value generation. She provides strategic labour and employment advice to management, and frequently provides advice regarding the transfer of employees in corporate transactions including M&A transactions, reorganizations, insolvencies, and outsourcing transactions. Michelle’s proficiency with complex commercial transactions includes executive restructuring and employee down-sizing, often in the context of challenging international employment strategies. Michelle’s experience goes well into the business and strategic side of labour and employment law. She provides employers with advice on union organizing campaigns, collective bargaining, executive compensation and incentive entitlements, and cases involving fiduciary and confidentiality obligations. When disputes arise, Michelle acts for employers in various legal proceedings, including wrongful dismissal, human rights claims, grievance arbitrations, appearances before provincial and federal labour relations boards, and claims enforcing post-employment obligations.

A frequent writer on human resources law developments, Michelle has authored, co-authored, and contributed to numerous articles, papers, and books. She is routinely asked to speak about human resources issues and to conduct workplace training for managers and supervisors.

Michelle is consistently recognized as a leading labour and employment lawyer by legal directories including Best Lawyers and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, which recognized her as one of Canada’s “Leading Lawyers under 40“ in the 2017 edition of Lexpert’s annual Rising Star awards.