Lawson Lundell LLP

Corporate Commercial Law; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity & Venture Capital

Jag practises in the area of corporate and commercial law. He works primarily with private companies, partnerships and trusts on a variety of transactions, including asset/share acquisitions and dispositions, fund and joint venture investments, corporation restructurings, management buy-outs and various other commercial arrangements (including the negotiation of asset and investment management agreements, franchise and license agreements and shareholder and limited partnership agreements).

A large part of Jag’s practice is devoted to working with institutional clients in the public sector, particularly pension plans, other tax-exempt entities and their fiduciaries, with respect to their structuring activities and their real estate, infrastructure and private equity investments, including joint ventures, co-investments and fund investments. As part of his work with public sector institutions, Jag has assisted clients with investments in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. In this regard, he has worked extensively in the negotiation and settlement of limited partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, side letters, subscription agreements and other types of investment and governance agreements.

Jag has also acted for a number of private equity firms in connection with their investment activities, including the ultimate sale and disposition of their portfolio companies.

With respect to corporate structuring work, Jag oversees Lawson Lundell’s corporate services paralegal group and is frequently involved in various cross-border reorganization transactions. In this regard, Jag frequently assists counsel in other jurisdictions on matters of British Columbia and Canadian law, chiefly in the area of mergers, acquisitions, arrangements, amalgamations and other corporate proceedings.

University of Victoria (LL.B., 2001)

University of British Columbia (B.A., 1998)