Member Profile

As a senior business law partner, Barbara Doherty leads projects demanding large teams of lawyers in leading edge transactions from P3s to cross border mergers and acquisitions including in regulated industries. Her practice includes providing general counsel advice to local and international clients as a trusted adviser. She is actively involved in advising foreign companies with their direct investment and establishing their businesses in Canada.

Barbara has acted for issuers, controlling shareholders, independent committees, and registrants. She has experience with transactions relating to corporate acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganizations with securities, regulatory, competition, and Investment Canada implications.

Barbara has a wealth of experience in mergers and acquisitions. Barb’s strength is her ability to lead a service team dedicated to helping clients plan, orchestrate, and successfully implement complex transactions within time-sensitive, regulated environments.

Barbara led the firm’s team that completed one of the first mergers and acquisitions of two mutual fund dealers regulated by the MFDA. She also led the corporate/commercial and specialty team of 25 lawyers advising on the design, build, finance, and operation of the first public-private hospital facility in Ontario. Barbara was appointed as External Counsel to the Ontario Power Authority and led the firm’s service team with a mandate to provide corporate/commercial legal services to support the development of conservation and demand management programs.

Barbara has acted on private placements and prospectus offerings for both foreign and domestic registrants and issuers including investment funds and government agencies. These offerings consist of various equity and debt instruments. She has also acted on exempt and non-exempt takeover bids for offerors, targets, controlling shareholders, and dealers.

Barbara works with client from the International companies range from industries as diverse as architecture and consulting, biopharma, biotech, brokerage, clean tech, construction, construction equipment/power and parts, data management and communications, digital media, eco-wastes, e-commerce, emerging technologies (AI, blockchain and smart contracts), energy and renewable energy, engineering sealants and paving maintenance, film production, financial services, food and beverage, footwear, forestry, global construction and infrastructure, government registry development, health care, hotel management, hydro-electric construction, international dealers and advisors, investment funds, logistics, marketing and advertising, mining equipment engineering, oil and gas, outsource product engineering services, pharmaceuticals, product manufacturing, private and public security training and simulation, real estate development, robotics, roof coatings, small appliance manufacturing and housewares, soil and water decontamination, solar power, specialty environmental contracting, specialty publishing, telecommunications, utilities and safety solutions and water resources.

Barbara advises companies from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and the United States on their Canadian operations.

• Business Laws of Canada, West (a Thomson Reuters business), 2010 – 2018

• Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions: A Tool Kit for Northbound Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2008

• Directors Duties in Canada Managing Risk, (CCH, 1995), one of 5 Nominees for the National Business Book Award offered jointly by Coopers & Lybrand and the Financial Times, 2005

•Canadian Bar Association

•American Bar Association (Associate)

•Association for Corporate Growth

•Women in Capital Markets

•International Bar Association

•Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission 1993 – 1995

Recipient of a Women in Law 2014-2017 Global Award for Business and Securities

2015 - 2018 Global Awards for Energy and National Resources

2016 - 2018 Global Awards for Cross Border

2018 Lawyer International Global Award