Sylvie Welsh, Partner
Biography
Sylvie's focus is on:
- Transaction work, including structuring and implementation of share and asset acquisitions and dispositions, mergers, plans of arrangement, amalgamations, financings (both private placements and public offerings) and other business transactions involving strategic investors, vendors and private equity funds.
- Formation and organization of corporations, partnerships, co-ownership structures, including the preparation of shareholder, partnership and joint venture agreements and related governance documents.
- Structuring and implementation of corporate and other reorganizations.
- Drafting and negotiating a wide variety of corporate and commercial contracts.
- Corporate governance matters.
- Listing matters with the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange and Canadian Securities Exchange.
Sylvie services companies at all stages of development (from entrepreneurial start-ups to national and international clients) in a wide array of industries including agriculture, oil and gas, renewable energy, energy transformation, technology, retail and health-care.
Community involvement
Sylvie is a member of the CLG (Calgary Legal Guidance) Fund Development Committee as well as the CBA Law Day Committee. She also served with the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association and Women's Legal Forum as a gala organizer (2017, 2019 and 2021).