Whether it is due diligence for an acquisition or drafting a shareholder agreement, Catherine brings experience and incisive questioning to the table. She acts for a range of corporate clientele, including individual entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses and private companies, assisting them with their establishment, financing and general business activities and relationships. She is familiar with all phases of corporate growth from venture capital start-up to public financing.

Working on contracts for both a leading software developer and a start-up software developer, Catherine has developed expertise in drafting and negotiating software license, professional services and related agreements. She is adept at working with sales representatives and offers a deal-closing approach.

Catherine has also acted for non-profit organizations and various government entities in negotiating equipment leases, licensing arrangements, professional services agreements and other commercial contracts.

Catherine is well versed in the drafting of secured lending documents. She brings experience to the co-ordination of closings and opinion preparation for business purchases through the acquisition of shares or assets.

AREAS OF PRACTICE AND INDUSTRY SPECIALTY

• Business Practice – Corporate, Commercial Transactions, Purchase and Sale of Business, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Secured Transactions, Equipment Leasing, Securities Financing, Partnership Matters, Employment Matters, Limited Partnerships, Not-for-Profit/Charitable Organizations, Shareholder Agreements, Securities Regulation
  
• Financial Services – Secured Lending
  
• Technology and Intellectual Property – Software Licensing, Computers, e-Commerce and Internet Matters, Website Development

EDUCATION

• Called to the Ontario Bar 1996
• University of Western Ontario, LL.B., 1994
• Queen's University, B. Comm., 1991

MEMBERSHIPS

• Law Society of Upper Canada
• Ontario Bar Association
• Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS)