Lawyer Profile
Jacqueline (Jack) Goslett
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Jack provides clear, actionable guidance to her financial services clients, both lenders and borrowers. By drawing on her business background, Jack offers her clients pragmatic advice on how to best structure commercial loan transactions and how to evaluate and understand the associated legal and business risks. She builds relationships with her clients by being attentive, highly responsive and by providing candid advice. Jack acts as counsel for several domestic and foreign banks, venture capital/private equity funds and other institutional investors. She also acts for borrowers on a regular basis across a variety of industries.
As Co-Leader of the firm’s Financial Services, Banking & Finance and Venture Finance Groups, Jack’s practice focuses on banking and corporate/commercial law, with an emphasis on domestic and cross-border lending transactions, including syndicated credit facilities, senior and subordinated/mezzanine financings, asset-based lending and venture capital/private equity investments. She also has experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, share/asset purchase and sale transactions and corporate reorganizations.
Jack is a member of the Aird & Berlis Women’s Initiative and Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
Advised The Toronto-Dominion Bank and CIBC on the structuring and execution of a credit arrangement in relation to AirBoss of America Corp.’s US$180-million senior secured credit facilities.
Acted as Canadian counsel to Kuehne+Nagel with respect to its acquisition of Farrow, a Canadian customs brokerage, transportation and logistics business.
Acted as Canadian counsel to a U.S. private equity firm that invests in technology, business services and industrial companies in its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of a Canadian-based cybersecurity firm and amendments to the fund’s term and asset-based credit arrangements.
Acted as legal counsel to San Cristobal Mining Inc., a private mining company formed under the laws of British Columbia, in its acquisition of Minera San Cristóbal S.A. and all associated assets from Sumitomo Corporation, as well as a related equity financing and two debt financings.
Acts on a regular basis as counsel to a large U.S.-based high-tech commercial bank (also a Schedule III Canadian Bank) which lends to early-stage start-ups and companies experiencing high growth, primarily in the technology sector.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2012 (ON)