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JESSE AHUJA
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(778) 329-9038

jahuja@meplaw.ca

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Jesse Ahuja

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ABOUT JESSE

Jesse Ahuja is a partner at MEP Business Counsel. He advises private enterprises and their investors (private equity/venture capital) with respect to mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, formation, restructuring, financing and strategic transactions. Jesse’s clients span a broad range of industries (technology, manufacturing, logistics, professional services, hospitality, food & beverage, e-commerce, retail, and financial services).

Jesse also acts for secured lenders and advises on domestic and international commercial relationships.

In Jesse’s free time, you will find him in the mountains skiing or mountain biking, playing hockey, or enjoying time with his beautiful wife and daughter.

EDUCATION

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

Call to the bar:

British Columbia 2008; Ontario 2016

REPRESENTATIVE WORK

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.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

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

ARTICLES

MEP Business Counsel’s Arthur Evrensel, Marshall Pawar, Jesse Ahuja, and Rosalyn Chan Recognized Among Canada’s Best Lawyers™

26 August 2021

LEGAL ASSISTANT:
Nevada Ash

nash@meplaw.ca
(604) 669-1119 ext. 120

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