Jason Brooks Email & Phone Number

Jason Brooks is a Partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. He possess expertise in mergers and acquisitions, securities, securities regulation, capital markets, corporate governance and 17 more skills.

Listed skills include Mergers And Acquisitions, Securities, Securities Regulation, Capital Markets, and 18 others.

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  Partner

  Borden Ladner Gervais Llp

  Jun 1995 - Present - Vancouver, Canada Area

  Representative work:• Advising on issues related to the formation, organization & on-going operation of retail mutual funds, hedge funds, pooled funds, mortgage investment corporations & other mortgage investment vehicles and other types of investment funds & pooled investment vehicles, including funds investing in cryptocurrencies & other digital assets• Advising Canadian & foreign advisers, dealers & investment fund managers with respect to registration & on-going securities regulatory & compliance matters, including firms obtaining registration with securities regulators in all jurisdictions of Canada• Advising firms involved in trading & investing in cryptocurrencies & other digital assets, including trading platforms, fund managers & advisers• Obtained novel & complex exemptive relief from a wide variety of prospectus, registration, conflict of interest & other compliance requirements under Canadian securities laws• Co-led the team that represented RBC Global Asset Management Inc. in the formation of the strategic alliance with BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited to offer the largest & most comprehensive ETF suite in Canada• Led BLG team that represented First Block Capital Inc. in connection with its registration as an investment fund manager & exempt market dealer in order to operate a bitcoin investment fund, the first registration of an investment fund manager in Canada solely dedicated to cryptocurrency investments, & the private placement offering of that fund to investors in Canada & abroad• Led BLG team that represented Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management Ltd. (PH&N) in relation to the sale of PH&N to Royal Bank of Canada in 2008, a transaction that created the largest retail mutual fund company in Canada, one of the top five managers in the Canadian institutional market for defined benefit & defined contribution pension plans, & one of the largest private client investment counselling businesses in Canada