Capital Markets

Partner and national leader of the firm's Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) initiative.

Laura practices corporate and securities law with a focus on public companies and capital markets. She advises clients on a wide range of complex securities law matters, including corporate finance, corporate governance, continuous disclosure, public mergers and acquisition, and securities regulatory compliance. Laura's client service strategy revolves around her deep understanding of the law and ability to ask the right questions to understand clients' goals and provide tailored and practical solutions.

In addition to her work on transactional matters, Laura plays a lead role in the development and management of innovative legal content and current awareness materials, contributes to practice group and firm wide education initiatives, and monitors legal, regulatory and market developments with the goal of ensuring that BLG lawyers and clients benefit from the firm's collective and cutting-edge legal expertise.

Laura is the co-chair of BLG's Modern Slavery Taskforce, focused on unifying the firm on the newly enacted Fighting Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act.

English

Member, Law Society of Ontario Member, American Bar Association Member, New York State Bar Association Instructor, Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario (2023 Fellowship Securities Law Course)

Certificate, ESG, Climate Risk and The Law, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, 2021 J.D. (magna cum laude), University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, 2010 LL.B., University of Windsor, 2010 B.A., University of British Columbia, 2007 Bar Admission New York, 2014 Ontario, 2011