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Jesslyn G. Maurier

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T: 416.777.4899

Toronto

Maurier Jesslyn
 
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T: 416.777.4899


Toronto

  • Education
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  • Recent Experience
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services
  • Recent Experience
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Jesslyn Maurier has a broad corporate commercial law practice and advises clients in a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, including acting for both companies and investors in private equity and venture capital transactions and other debt and equity financings, private mergers and acquisitions, and share and asset purchase and sale transactions. A significant focus of Jesslyn's practice involves providing advice on corporate development and governance, shareholder arrangements, executive/employee compensation arrangements, director protection (including directors' duties, indemnities and D&O insurance), and corporate reorganizations. She has acted for independent committees of directors in connection with merger and acquisition transactions and other strategic matters. Jesslyn's practice includes representation of start-up, growth and mature companies and many of her clients are new economy companies in the technology, media and entertainment fields. She contributed as an author of several chapters of Directors' Duties in Canada, 6th Edition, published by LexisNexis in 2016.

Jesslyn also practices in the energy/electricity area and acts for developers, investors and suppliers in the structuring, financing and acquisition of renewable power projects. She has acted for the Ontario Power Authority in connection with a proposed major power procurement initiative.

Jesslyn is a regular speaker at conferences and other events on a variety of corporate governance and corporate/commercial law topics.

Jesslyn is a director of Yorkminster Park Meals on Wheels, a non-profit community organization that delivers meals to elderly, disabled and infirm residents in the North Toronto area.

In 2012, Jesslyn was the recipient of an Arbor Award from the University of Toronto, in recognition of her outstanding personal service to the university.

Education

University of Toronto, BA, 1998 University of Toronto, JD, 2003 

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 2004

Recent Experience

Just Cash, in its sale of a controlling investment position to Coinsquare Ltd.
The Board of Directors of Sears Canada, in Sears' CCAA proceedings, one of the largest court-supervised liquidations in Canadian history.
FlashStock Technology Inc., in its sale to Shutterstock, Inc., a leading global provider of commercial digital imagery, for approximately US$50 million.
District Ventures, in formation of venture capital fund and fund investments in companies in the consumer packaged goods industry.
Special Committee of Halogen Software Inc., in a $293 million acquisition by way of plan of arrangement.
Intrafinity Inc., doing business as SharpSchool, in the acquisition of substantially all of its assets by West Corporation
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $9 million Series A funding round of Busbud.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $46 million Series C funding round of Wattpad.
OMERS Ventures LP, in a $100 million investment, led by OMERS and Insight Ventures, in Shopify Inc.
OMERS Ventures LP, in a $165 million investment, led by OMERS and Insight Ventures, in Hootsuite Media Inc.
Advising Special Committee of CML Healthcare, in the proposed C$1.22 billion acquisition of the company by LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services. The acquisition is subject to approval by shareholders and the court, in addition to customary regulatory approvals.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in a $7.65 million investment in 360Incentives.com.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its $500,000 investment in LeadSift.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its Class A Preference Share, Series 2 Investment in AppHero, Inc.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $80 million investment in Desire2Learn.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its $20 million investment in Vision Critical.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $12 million funding round of Hopper Inc.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in a $2.5 million investment in Sweet Tooth Inc.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its Series B investment in Wattpad.
TigerTel Communications Inc., and an independent directors' committee of the board, in a going-private transaction by its controlling shareholder.
Hunter Keilty Muntz & Beatty Limited, in its acquisition of Morris & Mackenzie Inc.'s insurance brokerage business.
An international carbon emissions broker, in a Clean Development Mechanism transaction involving the purchase and sale of over $1 billion in certified emissions reductions (CERs).
Syncapse Corp., a social media marketing company, in corporate development, and angel and venture capital financings.
HUB International Limited, in acquisitions of insurance brokerage operations. 
BFA Securities Inc., in the establishment and structuring of a $480 million "strip bond" program.
Natsource CF Corporation, in the completion of a series of transactions involving the forward purchase and syndicated onward sale of approximately 44 million certified emission reductions expected to be created by a nitrous oxide decomposition project in China.

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Bennett Jones Advises on $3.2-Billion Agreement to Acquire K+S Americas Salt Business, Including Morton Salt and Windsor Salt

October 05, 2020
       

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Updates to COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus for Canadian Businesses

July 23, 2020
       

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Further Updates to COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus for Canadian Businesses

May 22, 2020
       

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April 29, 2020
       

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Additional Updates to COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus for Canadian Businesses

April 24, 2020
       

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Updates to COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus Programs for Canadian Businesses

April 16, 2020
       

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COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus for Canadian Businesses

April 09, 2020
       

Announcements

Jesslyn Maurier on Women in Dealmaking

November 29, 2018
       

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April 06, 2018
       

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Bennett Jones Names 10 New Partners

March 28, 2018
       

Articles

Directors' Duties in Canada, 6th ed.

April 06, 2016
       

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