Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2020 
Melissa’s practice is focused on securities and capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate governance. Businesses and investors rely on Melissa’s strategic advice while negotiating and executing complex transactions and navigating commercial relationships.
Clients value Melissa’s extensive knowledge and experience advising on complex and multi-jurisdictional transactions, including debt and equity financings, take-over bids, plans of arrangement, amalgamations, going-public and going-private transactions, private equity transactions and strategic investments. She provides advice across a broad range of industries on public disclosure, stock exchange requirements and securities regulatory matters, as well as corporate structuring and governance. Melissa’s securities practice extends to delivering local counsel opinions in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon and acting as local counsel in those jurisdictions.
Melissa frequently advises on business succession planning. With proactive advice for owner-operators, management teams and entrepreneurs, Melissa focuses on clarity and maintaining stakeholder relationships as businesses navigate successful transitions in management or ownership.
