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Kevin West
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Andrea Hill
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Priya Ratti
Lawyer
Leadership
Kevin West is a senior corporate and securities lawyer with over two decades of experience. He has led countless corporate transactions, including M&As, financings and joint ventures. He also has significant experience advising companies on corporate governance, disclosure and compliance issues.
Prior to launching SkyLaw in 2010, Kevin was a partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, where he represented a number of foreign companies making acquisitions in Canada. Before joining Davies, he practised with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and Sydney, Australia, and clerked for Justice Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Founder
Kevin West
Andrea Hill is a corporate and securities lawyer with nearly a decade of experience in a broad corporate practice. Her areas of expertise include establishing, structuring and governing corporations, raising capital and conducting private placements and other financings, M&As, going-public transactions, and general corporate and securities matters.
Andrea has published multiple articles in national Canadian media and is a repeat contributor by invitation to the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. She has a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School, where she graduated in the top 3% of her class.
Lawyer
Andrea Hill
Priya Ratti is a corporate and securities lawyer with a focus on M&A transactions. Prior to joining SkyLaw, she ran her own practice, representing clients in a wide range of civil litigation and corporate matters. She currently manages SkyCounsel, SkyLaw’s practice support platform for independent legal professionals, and she is an active contributor to the firm’s Corporate Insights blog.
Priya completed her law degree at the University of Ottawa, where she worked with a select team to establish Canada’s first national, bilingual and student-run business law clinic providing pro bono legal services to local entrepreneurs and start-ups.
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Priya Ratti
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Diana Nicholls Mutter
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Diana Nicholls Mutter is a corporate and securities lawyer at SkyLaw. Before joining the firm, she received an LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School. Her master’s thesis focused on securities regulation and corporate governance and was accepted with no revisions at her oral defence. She also has a JD from Western Law and recently provided a guest lecture there for a securities law course.
Diana has published several articles analyzing securities law developments in both Canadian and US law journals, including the
The International Lawyer published by the American Bar Association, the Canadian Business Law Journal, and the Banking and Finance Law Review.
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Diana Nicholls Mutter
Juliana Ramkissoon
Lawyer
Juliana Ramkissoon is a corporate and securities lawyer at SkyLaw. Prior to joining the SkyLaw team, she completed her articles at a full-service Toronto law firm where she developed a keen interest in corporate and securities transactions.
Juliana obtained dual Canadian and American law degrees from the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy, graduating in the top 10% of her class and magna cum laude, respectively. During her law school career, Juliana worked and volunteered at numerous organizations, gaining experience in criminal, corporate, and civil matters.
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Juliana Ramkissoon
SkyLaw is a premier corporate and securities firm specialising in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, governance and finance. The SkyLaw team provides both technical and strategic advice to leading public and private companies on significant corporate transactions involving a wide variety of industries. SkyLaw excels in major acquisitions, bespoke equity and debt investments, joint ventures and reorganizations.
The majority of the firm’s M&A work involves acquirors based in the United States, China, Europe and elsewhere around the world. Recent engagements include high-profile private equity investments and strategic acquisitions in Canada by Fortune 500 companies.
SkyLaw also works closely with entrepreneurial businesses and their founders, assisting them through all stages from incorporation to exit. The SkyLaw team knows firsthand what it is like to start a business and the challenges of growing a company, and understands what is truly important when negotiating shareholder agreements, bringing on investors, or contemplating major strategic transactions. Most of all, SkyLaw’s team believes in keeping it simple: their work is defined by its clarity.
Kevin West founded SkyLaw in 2010 after spending over a decade with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and Sydney and with Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP in Toronto. SkyLaw celebrated its 10th anniversary in October 2020.
“Now, we have much more frequent recognition awards because we want to celebrate people staying at CAAT and recognize the contributions that they bring to the organization”
Julie Giraldi,
CAAT Pension Plan
Estahil Aden
Senior Law Clerk
Bernice Lee Pack
Law Clerk
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Estahil Aden is a senior corporate law clerk at SkyLaw. She holds a Law Clerk Diploma from Centennial College and a bachelor’s degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice with a concentration in Law from Carleton University.
Esta specializes in corporate governance. She assists in all matters with respect to incorporating, organizing and maintaining corporations and charities, including by-law development, preparation of resolutions and minutes, as well as compliance matters such as provincial annual returns and business name registrations. Esta also assists with transactions, including M&As and corporate reorganizations.
Senior Law Clerk
Estahil Aden
Bernice Lee Pack is a corporate law clerk and assists with minute book maintenance such as incorporating, organizing and maintaining corporations, preparations of resolutions and minutes as well as filing annual returns and business name registrations.
A graduate of Seneca College, Bernice holds a Law Clerk Diploma and an Executive Assistant Certification. With over 13 years of experience in professional executive support positions and a proven track record of performance in high-volume and high-pressure environments, Bernice skillfully supports client relations for her colleagues at SkyLaw.
Law Clerk
Bernice Lee Pack
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
“Our tech contributes to a more efficient future where, for example, live steaming video with customers to investigate damage was once a gimmick. It’s now the norm – unless a physical visit is absolutely necessary”
Paul Stanley,
360Globalnet
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/skylaw-llp
Website:
skylaw.ca
Email:
kevin.west@skylaw.ca
Phone:
416 759 5299
Number of employees:
10
Year founded:
2010
Headquarters:
Toronto, ON
