Canada
Corporate Securities Barbara R.C. Doherty Miller Thomson LLP
Barbara R.C. Doherty Senior Partner Miller Thomson LLP Tel: +1-416-595-8621 bdoherty@millerthomson.com www.millerthomson.com
Foreign Direct Investment; Mergers & Acquisitions; Corporate Finance
As a senior business law partner, Barbara Doherty has led 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. She advises companies in countries from Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America on their Canadian operations. These international companies operate in industries as diverse as biopharma, biotech, clean tech, data management, digital media, e-commerce, emerging technologies (AI, blockchain and smart contracts), energy and renewable energy, film production, financial services, food and beverage, footwear, forestry, global construction and infrastructure, health care, hotel management, hydro-electric construction, international dealers and advisors, logistics, marketing and advertising, mining equipment engineering, product manufacturing, real estate development, robotics, roof coatings, small appliance manufacturing and housewares, soil and water decontamination, specialty environmental contracting, specialty publishing and telecommunications. In firm management, she has chaired and co-chaired the Securities and Business Law groups, both at the national and local levels. Barbara is active in mentoring and developing business development tools designed to assist young lawyers in identifying, pursuing and servicing their best client relationships and opportunities. Miller Thomson LLP enjoys a reputation as one of Canada’s leading national business law firms. With close to 550 lawyers across Canada, the firm offers a complete range of business, advocacy and personal legal services to help domestic and international decision-makers with all their Canadian legal needs.
Canada
Forensic Technology Dominic Jaar
KPMG Canada
Dominic Jaar Partner KPMG Canada Tel: +1 514-212-9348 djaar@kpmg.ca www.kpmg.ca
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Dominic is the Canadian Advisory Leader, Clients & Markets, and a partner in KPMG’s Forensic Technology Practice, focusing on supporting organisations’ Forensic Technology needs (Ediscovery, Digital Forensics, Records & Information Management, Data Analytics and Cyber Investigations). Dominic is a guest speaker on such topics as privacy, legal technology, IT law, cross-border data flow, information management, investigation methodology and ediscovery at different universities, including McGill, University of Montreal, Laval and Ottawa, and international conferences, such as LegalTech, ARMA, ILTA, ABA Techshow and the ediscovery Institute. Dominic also teaches ediscovery and technology to Canadian judges, via the National Judicial Institute. He regularly acts as an expert in cases involving ediscovery disputes, and was recognised as such before the Quebec Superior Court. He has also been recognised for the last five years as one of Canada’s leading lawyer in e-commerce and Internet law, as well as one of Canada’s top ten forensic technologists by the international Who’s Who Legal. Prior to joining KPMG, Dominic was the CEO of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology. As such, he sat on the Canadian Judicial Council’s Judges Technology Advisory Committee. During the same period, he was the president of Ledjit Consulting, Canada’s leading Information Management and ediscovery firm, bridging the gap between IT and the Law™, which was acquired by KPMG. Before founding Ledjit, Dominic was an in-house counsel at Bell Canada where he focused on ediscovery, as well as IT and complex litigation. Previously, he worked as a commercial litigator in one of Canada’s largest law firms. Dominic was involved in the development and improvement of many international standards and best practices regarding Data, Discovery as well as law and technology. He also worked with a number of software companies to help them develop and improve ediscovery and forensic technology solutions.