University of Ottawa (LL.B. 2007), Queen’s University (B.A. 2003)

Call to the bar:

British Columbia 2008; Ontario 2016

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

• Acted for Nechako Group on the sale of substantially all of its assets to Emil Anderson Maintenance.
• Acted for CoPower, Canada’s first sustainable investment platform and a leading provider of financing to clean energy and energy efficiency projects, in its acquisition by Vancity Community Investment Bank.

• Local counsel to Motorola in connection with its $1.28 billion acquisition of Avigilon Corporation.

• Acted for Thunderbird Films Inc., a Vancouver-based film and television production company, in its separate acquisition of all of the shares of each of Great Pacific Media Inc., Soda Pictures Limited, and Atomic Cartoons Inc.

• Acted for Vancouver-based television production company in connection with the sale of a 49% equity interest to one of the world’s largest media and entertainment companies.

• Acted for the vendors in the sale of all of the shares of a fire protection business.

• Acted for the purchaser in connection with the acquisition of all of the shares of a marine engineering firm.

• Acted for a metals recycling operation in connection with the sale of substantially all of its assets.

• Acted for the purchaser in a Management Buy-Out of a construction management and quality control company.

• Acted for the purchaser in a Management Buy-Out of the leading real estate company in Whistler, BC.
• Represented Aligntrac Solutions, Inc. on the cross-border sale of all of its assets to 1WorldSync, a Battery Ventures company.
• Represented a private buyer on the purchase of all of the shares of Jumpstart Games Canada Inc.
• Represented the purchasing group in the management buyout of VELscope from Planet DDS, Inc.
• Represented ABT Innovations Inc. and Sepset Biosciences Inc. on their indirect acquisition by ASEP Medical holdings Inc. (CSE: ASEP).
• Represented the vendors on the cross-border sale of all of the shares of Bubblebox Holdings, Inc. to Chicago-based VntCap Technologies, LLC.

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FINANCE

• CoPower Inc. in connection with multiple renewable energy project finance facilities.

• First Block Capital, Canada’s first fully regulated PM, IFM, and EMD cryptocurrency investment firm.

• Shoes.com Technologies Inc. in multiple private placements of equity, debt and convertible debt.

• Vancouver-based beverage packaging and logistics company, FreshTAP Logistics Inc., in connection with a strategic private equity investment and liquidity event.

• Technology and logistics company in connection with a $10 million asset-based lending facility collateralized against receivables, inventory, and intellectual property.

• Co-counsel to Asian Coast Development Ltd. in the development of a destination resort and casino in Vietnam, advising equity financings over $850 million in aggregate, corporate governance, construction, and regulatory matters.

• Private equity fund in connection with financing by way of convertible debentures in a private technology company.

• An online retailer in connection with a cross-border asset-based lending facility collateralized against accounts receivable and inventory.

• Several major Canadian banks in connection with multiple asset-based lending facilities collateralized against receivables, inventory, and equipment.

• Represented CAPE Fund, L.P., a private-sector investment fund founded by the Right Honourable Paul Martin, in connection with several investments in Aboriginal-owned businesses.

Law Society of British Columbia
Law Society of Ontario
Entrepreneurs’ Organization
Young Canadians in Finance
Canadian Bar Association
Vancouver Bar Association