Shanlee von Vegesack

Shanlee von Vegesack

Calgary, AB recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2025
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376 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Corporate Law Mergers and Acquisitions Law Venture Capital Law

Biography

Shanlee’s practice is focused on securities and capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, start-ups, shareholder activism and corporate governance. Shanlee has a business-friendly, “get the deal done” mentality, enabling her to develop close and trusting business relationships while delivering practical, timely and high-value advice on an array of complex legal issues and transactions.

Shanlee has extensive experience advising clients on domestic and cross-border corporate finance transactions and public and private mergers and acquisitions. Shanlee frequently acts on going-public transactions, plans of arrangement, amalgamations, spin-outs, take-over bids, prospectus offerings and private placements.

In her emerging technology practice, Shanlee advises both tech companies and a wide range of investors in connection with a variety of transactions including venture capital, growth equity and private equity financings, acquisitions and divestitures and recapitalizations. She is also a trusted advisor in supporting the day-to-day corporate needs of the companies that she acts for.

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376 Best Lawyers awards

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Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2026 for work in:
  • Corporate Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Venture Capital Law
Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada from 2023-2024 for work in:
  • Corporate Law - 2024
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law - 2024
  • Securities Law - 2024
  • Corporate Law - 2023
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law - 2023
  • Securities Law - 2023

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