Linda Pieterson
Partner
Deals are what she does: complex international transactions and those that simply help clients navigate to where they need to be. At our last count, she has negotiated hundreds of deals, with an equal number of contented clients. Linda’s wide-ranging business expertise includes deals involving all manner of financings, banking transactions, purchases and sales of businesses and all types of commercial ventures – everywhere from Lichtenstein to the local pub. She has expertise across a spectrum of industries including real estate, radio, grocery, sports arenas, manufacturing, litigation funding, medical practices, restaurant service, and real estate development. Although we think of Linda as a pretty hip 50ish year old, we concede that this does not reconcile easily with her devastating contract drafting skills – or her ability to tell you why boilerplate really matters. A detail-oriented deal-maker, Linda’s reputation as a negotiator and sticky problem-solver precede her. She’s also one of a kind: no one else can best be described as a hard-working solicitor who keeps a closing checklist for April Fool’s Day and is the fiercely proud co-creator of three of the best humans on the planet.
Expertise
- Legal advisor on extensive range of corporate and commercial matters
- Negotiation of complex business transactions
- Transaction structuring including limited and unlimited liability corporations, professional corporations, trusts, partnerships and joint ventures
- Shareholder agreements
- Private company governance
- Asset acquisition transactions
- Share purchase transactions
- Financing transactions for both lenders and borrowers
- Traditional secured financings, including foreign lending transactions, project finance, asset based lending, syndicated and cross border transactions
- Wide variety of industry expertise
Representative Deals
- Lead legal counsel to development group in respect of
structuring and financing joint ventures, acquisitions and financings - Ongoing advisor to entrepreneurial investor in wide range of cross-border businesses from start-ups to established ventures
- Legal consultant to chain restaurant owner in expansion and operation of Toronto restaurants
- Buyout of assets and joint venture interests in multi-party medical practice
- Financing chain of hotels in Greater Toronto Area
- Acquisition of local software companies to expand client’s technology base
- Corporate counsel to litigation finance company
Education
- Hon. B.A. (English), University of Windsor (1987)
- LL.B., University of Windsor (1990)
- Call to Bar: 1992 (Ontario)