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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Leading a team that facilitates commercial and operational opportunities for UHN’s corporate portfolios by structuring, negotiating and drafting agreements that enable performance and appropriately mitigate risk.

Toronto, On

Anticipating and solving regulatory, governance, and contractual issues, and supporting business development, sourcing and hospital operations through negotiation and structuring expertise.

Toronto

Notable contributions included:- creating business growth and customer engagement opportunities through contract and negotiations advice. - enabling risk taking and lowered costs primarily related to business practices and data privacy by SOP development and training, comprehensive incident investigation & follow-up, and disciplined management of claims. - engaging the potential of team members, earning the trust of business partners in our technical and strategic ability, improving speed of project execution.

Provided leadership and technical expertise on:Commercial strategy and tactics / Supply and distribution agreements- drug and medical device promotional regulations, industry codes, and patent & trademark rights, improving promotional and revenue opportunities. - pharmaceutical and vaccine ($1B+) supply agreements with governments and buying groups, creating longer-term deals through pricing options and risk limitations.Product and brand acquisitions and dispositions / Financing transactions- global/local business lines or products (pharma & medical devices), including key project management work enabling effective transition of services. - funding agreements for manufacturing sites, developing innovation capacity.Strategic and expert opinion sourcing / Outsourcing- clinical trial agreements and processes that improved our ability to advance local research and develop key opinion leader relationships.- RFPs as a purchaser of logistics, customer service and facilities functions, with key metrics and risk mitigation.Dispute Resolution and Risk Management- product liability, patent and trademark, commercial and regulatory claims, increasing efficiency with external counsel and facilitating business partner input. - developing and training on internal and external policy, codes of conduct and law (Competition Act, anti-corruption, drug benefits), increasing audit performance & measured compliance.

File leadership on capital markets, M&A, commercial partnership and structured finance transactions. Particular expertise with:Corporate Finance/Securities (public/private markets)- enabled start-up to blue-chip companies, or their underwriters/dealers, to raise equity and debt by anticipating corporate governance issues, obtaining regulatory relief, and drafting and filing prospectuses, circulars, offering memoranda, dealer agreements, corporate governance documents and opinions.Mergers and Acquisitions (public/private markets)- negotiated and drafted share & asset purchase agreements, letters of intent and support documents, and active integration of tax, employment & pension, intellectual property, competition and outsourcing expertise.

Paris, France

Engineered greater corporate finance efficiency for project finance and financial industry issuers and revenue generating opportunity for advisors. Particular experience and skills in:- drafting ISDA schedules, credit support agreements and offering memoranda for funded and synthetic credit transactions- advising on conflicts of law, regulatory and stock exchange requirements, security, insolvency and set-off matters, and drafting opinions and reporting letters.

Toronto, Canada Area

Developed experience and negotiation skills through assisting clients with capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and competition law opportunities and obligations.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Business Law And Regulation, Magna Cum Laude

Political Science And Economics