David Skinner Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

At Gimbal, we understand the legal profession. We’ve been lawyers and we’ve been clients, so we know the lawyer-client dynamic from both sides. This gives us a new perspective on the problems facing our profession and the solutions available today. We use our unique knowledge and Lean tools and methodologies to deliver quality analysis and advice to continuously improve your business and your bottom line.Our goal: increase your efficiency, productivity, and profitability through better legal matter management—where legal process improvement and legal project management meet. We free up valuable human, technological and financial resources for other important work by identifying, evaluating, and eliminating (or reducing) the inefficiency and waste that is everywhere in the practice of law. Our approach: we foster a culture of innovation and change, and leave our clients with a sustainable program for improvement. We combine our accredited LeanLegal® workshops and other educational programs with targeted process mapping and improvement projects. We believe in learning by doing, so we emphasize hands-on participation from everyone involved.We start with people and process. Once you have the right people doing the right work at the right time, we look at bringing in technology to make you even more efficient, productive, and profitable.

Through the IILPM, we provide advice and training on Legal Matter Management, with a focus on practical process improvement skills and the integration of Legal Process Improvement and Legal Project Management. Our signature program, the Legal Process Improvement Professional, is a 2-day certificate program. It's designed for people working in the legal industry who want advanced, career-enhancing education that will enable them to immediately improve efficiency, productivity, and profitability in their law firms and legal departments.

Independent advisor on legal and other strategic matters. Advisor to a private company looking to commercialize clean/green technology in the waste management sector.

Laval, Quebec, Ca

BELLUS Health is a global health company focused on the development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products.Experiences included: ~ STRATEGIC: Advisor to Board and Senior Executives, contributing to planning and strategic objectives. Managing key relationships with government agencies. ~ OPERATIONAL: Managing and mitigating contractual risk. Developing and implementing corporate governance policies. Serving as Corporate Secretary to the Board and all Board Committees. Reviewing all disclosure to and corporate communications with regulatory authorities, shareholders and other stakeholders, and the public at large. ~ LEGAL: Overseeing, instructing and managing work by internal and external legal counsel. Negotiating and completing partnerships and strategic relationships, and complex M&A, private equity, public and private financing and IP licensing transactions.

Created value in international corporate finance and other private equity investment deals through effective legal and transaction execution services.

antfactory was a private venture capital company, specializing in technology and technology-related investments. Responsible for legal and business affairs, serving as an advisor to an investment analysis and execution team investing in and managing portfolio investment companies.

London, England, Gb

Acting for both vendors and bidders, managed and coordinated large numbers of specialist attorneys and external advisors in the successful completion of cross-border M&A transactions and private equity auctions valued in the hundreds of millions of pounds sterling.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

LONDON: advised on Britain’s first private finance initiative and the acquisition by a Canadian truck manufacturing company of the leading public truck manufacturing company in the UK. BUDAPEST: represented the firm throughout the Central and Eastern Europe, implementing business development strategies, generating business that grew the firm from three to 26 lawyers. Advised on multi-national transactions, including the multi-billion dollar privatization of the Hungarian electricity industry. MONTREAL: practised general corporate and commercial law, including M&A, cross-border transactions, and general securities and capital markets work.

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law

Bachelor Of Civil Law (Bcl), Law

Certified Lean Sensei, Lean Six Sigma

Ba, Geology

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