Board Advisory & Corporate Governance; Corporate Commercial Law; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity & Venture Capital; Social Impact & Business Sustainability; Technology

Valerie (Val) is the Chair of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Group and of the firm's Technology Law Group; her practice is transactional (mergers and acquisitions / corporate finance) as well as advisory. After obtaining an honours bachelor of commerce degree, Val worked in marketing management with a large US based consumer packaged goods company, prior to obtaining her law degree. Val is the former Managing Partner of Lawson Lundell.

She has been involved in transactions for private and public companies including mergers and acquisitions, financing and corporate reorganizations as well as, strategic alliances and joint ventures.

Her practice includes acting for public and private companies as well as for private equity firms and large institutional investors. She has significant experience in private equity and venture fund formations. Val has been lead counsel on a number of large mid-market transactions including in the resource/commodities, real property (acquisitions and joint ventures for the development of industrial, and other commercial property) and manufacturing sectors in addition to acquisition activity in the technology sector.

In 2017, Val obtained her ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors and the Rotman School of Management.

Institute of Corporate Directors and the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management - Directors Education Program - (ICD.D Designation 2017)

Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D., 1991)

Queen’s University (B.Comm., 1986)