Corporate Governance Practice Corporate Law Mergers and Acquisitions Law Venture Capital Law
Jesse Ahuja
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2020 Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Jesse Ahuja is a partner at MEP Business Counsel. As a member of the firm since its founding, Jesse has focused exclusively on the formation, financing and mergers & acquisitions of private enterprises. While his clients span a broad range of industries (technology, manufacturing, logistics, professional services, hospitality, food & beverage, e-commerce, retail and financial services, among others), the underlying commonality is that all are privately held growth companies or their investors (private equity/venture capital).
Jesse also regularly advises on complex strategic transactions, partnerships, joint ventures and commercial relationships, both domestically and cross-border.
Prior to joining MEP, Jesse practiced corporate and securities law in the Vancouver office of Stikeman Elliott LLP, advising large public and private corporate clients on mergers, asset and share acquisitions and dispositions, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, and public and private financing. He has also advised public issuers on regulatory compliance matters, corporate governance and continuous disclosure obligations, including ongoing securities law compliance advice to TSX and TSX-V listed issuers.
Overview
Vancouver, British Columbia
- English
- French
- University of Ottawa, LL.B, graduated 2007
- British Columbia, 2008
- Ontario, 2016
Vancouver, British Columbia
- English
- French
- British Columbia, 2008
- Ontario, 2016
- University of Ottawa, LL.B, graduated 2007
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada™ 2026 for work in:
- Corporate Governance Practice
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Venture Capital Law
News & Media
Case History
Transactions
- Finance
- CoPower Inc. in connection with multiple renewable energy project finance facilities.
- First Block Capital, Canada’s first fully regulated PM, IFM and EMD cryptocurrency investment firm.
- Shoes.com Technologies Inc. in multiple private placements of equity, debt and convertible debt.
- Vancouver-based beverage packaging and logistics company, FreshTAP Logistics Inc., in connection with a strategic private equity investment and liquidity event.
- Technology and logistics company in connection with a $10 million asset-based lending facility collateralized against receivables, inventory, and intellectual property.
- Co-counsel to Asian Coast Development Ltd. in the development of a destination resort and casino in Vietnam, advising on multiple debt and equity financings over $850 million in aggregate, corporate governance, construction and regulatory matters.
- Private equity fund in connection with a financing by way of convertible debentures in a private technology company.
- E-commerce company in connection with the issuance of secured convertible debentures.
- Online retailer in connection with a cross-border asset-based lending facility collateralized against accounts receivable and inventory.
- Several major Canadian banks in connection with asset-based lending facilities to a major forestry company collateralized against receivables, inventory, and equipment.
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Acted for CoPower, Canada’s first sustainable investment platform and a leading provider of financing to clean energy and energy efficiency projects, in its acquisition by Vancity Community Investment Bank.
- Local counsel to Motorola in connection with its $1.28 billion acquisition of Aviglon Corporation.
- Thunderbird Films Inc., a Vancouver-based film and television production company, in its separate acquisition of all of the shares of each of Great Pacific Media Inc., Soda Pictures Limited and Atomic Cartoons Inc.
- Group of investors led by Hardy Capital Partners in their separate acquisitions of all of the shares of each of Seattle-based Onlineshoes.com,
- Vancouver-based SHOEme.ca, St. Louis-based Shoes.com and California-based Richer Poorer, Inc.
- Vancouver-based television production company in connection with the sale of a 49% equity interest to one of the world’s largest media and entertainment companies.
- Private purchaser in connection with the acquisition of all of the shares of a marine engineering firm.
- Metals recycling operation in connection with the sale of substantially all of its assets.
- Public gold mining company in connection with its acquisition by way of Plan of Arrangement.
- International media/entertainment company in connection with the structuring and formation of a cross-border joint venture.
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