Ralph Nero Email & Phone Number

I am a Retired Lawyer and Former Partner and Counsel with the Labour, Employment and Human Rights Practice Group at Fasken Martineau. I practiced exclusively in these areas for 33 years at Fasken Matineau. I practiced in all areas of labour, employment and human rights law, with a particular focus on business transactions, executive compensation and employment contracts, restrictive covenants, business immigration and workers' compensation. I regularly provided labour and employment advice in all forms of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and insolvency-related transactions. In this area, my expertise included strategic planning, negotiation, successor employer and large-scale reorganization issues, as well as drafting all forms of employment-related agreements. I also regularly advised clients on a full range of labour, employment and human rights issues, including employment policies and practices. My experience included:As part of a multi-billion dollar global transaction, coordinated the labour and employment issues across Canada, including negotiation of relevant portions of the commercial agreements, drafting a variety of employment-related agreements and strategic planning relating to the acquisition. Represented a foreign purchaser in the acquisition of a multi-jurisdictional Canadian business, including due diligence, negotiation of the purchase agreement, drafting employment and related contracts and strategic planning relating to reorganization of the business. Represented many debtors and purchasers in insolvency-related transactions, including evaluation and insulation of existing liabilities and drafting all forms of employment and commercial agreements relating to the insolvency or bankruptcy. I joined Fasken Martineau as an associate in 1990, and became a partner in 1997.Specialties: Labour, Employment and Business Immigration Law, particularly in the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions.

Listed skills include Employment Law, Immigration, Mergers, Human Rights, and 16 others.