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Melissa Birman

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Melissa Birman is a knowledge management lawyer, supporting the firm's corporate practice groups in all offices.

Prior to her current role, Melissa maintained a general corporate commercial law practice at the firm, with a focus on corporate development and governance. She advised clients on various matters, including private equity and debt transactions, private mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, shareholder arrangements and director protection (directors' duties, indemnification and insurance).

Melissa is the author of a chapter in Directors' Duties in Canada, 6th Edition (LexisNexis 2016), and was a co-editor of prior editions.

Melissa joined Bennett Jones after summering and articling with the firm.

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The Bennett Jones Knowledge Management group is one of the largest among Canadian law firms and comprises lawyers dedicated to research, drafting and knowledge sharing.

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McGill University, LLB, 2007, with distinction McGill University, BCL, 2007, with distinction 

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Ontario, 2008

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OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $4-million seed funding round of League, Inc.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $24-million financing round of Ranovus
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $46-million Series C funding round of Wattpad
OMERS Ventures LP, in its Series B investment in Wattpad
OMERS Ventures LP, in its $20-million investment in Vision Critical
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $12-million funding round of Hopper Inc.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its Class A Preference Share, Series 2 Investment in AppHero, Inc.
OMERS Ventures LP, in connection with its $6-million investment in Vidyard
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in a $2.5-million investment in Sweet Tooth Inc.
Syncapse Corp., a social media marketing company, in corporate development, and angel and venture capital financings
Irving Oil Limited, in independent representation of the Board of Directors
HUB International Limited, in acquisitions of insurance brokerage operations
TELUS Corporation, in its $1-billion MJDS offering of unsecured notes (2009)
Pet Valu, Inc., in its acquisition by way of plan of arrangement by certain affiliates of Roark Capital Group for approximately $143 million
TELUS Corporation, in connection with its $700-million offering of unsecured notes
Special Committee of MediSolution Ltd., in its acquisition by the controlling shareholder, Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
The underwriters, in a $23-million bought deal offering of common shares by COM DEV International Ltd.
Research In Motion Limited, in its $150-million acquisition of Certicom Corp
Spatial View Entertainment Inc., representation of start-up software company
Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, in its corporate governance project
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $10-million Series B funding round of InteraXon
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $6.2-million Series A funding round of Klipfolio
Intrafinity Inc., doing business as SharpSchool, in the acquisition of substantially all of its assets by West Corporation

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