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Lawson Lundell LLP Offices
1600 - 925 WEST GEORGIA STREET
VANCOUVER, BC V6C 3L2
Canada
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Valerie Mann
Work Department
Board Advisory & Corporate Governance; Corporate Commercial Law; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity & Venture Capital; Social Impact & Business Sustainability; Technology
Position
Valerie is the Chair of Lawson Lundell’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.
Education
Queen’s University (B.Comm (Hons)., 1986)
Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D., 1991)
Institute of Corporate Directors and the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management – Directors Education Program – (ICD.D Designation 2017)
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Corporate and M&A
The team at Lawson Lundell LLP brings strength to M&A, corporate finance and securities, corporate governance, fund formations and pension fund transactions, across such sectors as tech, mining, forestry, energy, financial services, manufacturing, transport and real estate. The practice is led in Vancouver by Valerie Mann, who heads the firm’s technology law practice and acts for private equity and venture capital funds; Jagdeep Shergill, an expert in pension plans; Greg Hollingsworth, who draws on a taxation and accounting background, and David Allard, a specialist in corporate reorganizations and restructurings and regulatory and stock exchange compliance. Other key figures include Andrew Robertson, whose transactional experience spans such industries as insurance and food and beverages, and Jack Yong, the leader of the Vancouver office’s Asia Pacific Group. All the lawyers mentioned work in Vancouver.