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Ms Melissa Prado
Work Department
Financial Services Regulatory
Position
Melissa’s experience in the financial services and insurance sectors allows her to provide 360-degree counsel to clients—from consumer protection and the formation and licensing of insurers and intermediaries, to significant transactions and governance matters.
Melissa’s practice focuses on corporate matters and regulatory compliance in the financial services and payments industry, with an emphasis on consumer protection and insurance corporate and regulatory law. She has also advised clients on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions, as well as on general corporate and governance matters.
Melissa is fluent in Spanish.
Career
Ontario, 2012
Memberships
Melissa is the incoming Managing General Editor of the Banking and Finance Law Review (BFLR).
Before joining Torys, Melissa was an assistant investment adviser at TD Waterhouse Private Investment Advice.
During law school, Melissa worked as a research and teaching assistant and volunteered at the Community Legal Aid Clinic Program. At Torys, she has acted as a mentor with the Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS) program, a high school program that uses legal education as a tool to assist students to succeed in school and become engaged and active citizens.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Insurance
(Rising Stars)‘A key firm for expert insurance counsel’, Torys is primarily recognized for its dominant position in transactional and regulatory insurance. That being said, the team also benefits from its ability to draw on the wider firm’s deep bench of dispute resolution specialists to resource complex contentious cases. Blair Keefe is widely considered as a leader in financial services regulation, including insurance; he acted as insurance regulatory counsel to Intact Financial on its £7.2bn acquisition, together with Tryg, of RSA Insurance Group. Other key regulatory and transactional names include Jill McCutcheon; senior counsel Kelly Morris; and talented counsel Melissa Prado. On the litigation side, Linda Plumpton is representing Manulife in an application discussing the proper interpretation of the ‘tax-exempt’ status of a subset of its universal life insurance contracts.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and M&A
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Energy and natural resources > Power
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Cannabis
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Pensions
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Public procurement
- International trade
- Labour and employment