Julia leverages over 15 years of experience practicing business law at a top national law firm to help her clients achieve their business goals.
Julia Kennedy is an experienced corporate commercial and M&A lawyer called to the Bar in the Province of Ontario, Canada and a graduate of McGill University, Faculty of Law.
Julia’s approach to representing her clients focuses on appreciating their priorities, the legal issues facing them and the costs/benefits of different paths to resolution. Julia believes that clients deserve clear, actionable advice and efficiency from their lawyer, regardless of the size of their business.
Julia's experience includes:
Implementing corporate reorganizations, amalgamations, equity financing rounds, and tax driven restructurings.
Representing client business positions in the purchase and sale of their business, share and asset transactions, joint ventures, and financings (closed M&A and equity financing deals from $150 thousand to over $200 million in value).
Negotiating, drafting, and providing advice on a wide variety of commercial agreements including services, product licensing, teaming, and distribution agreements.
Researching complex legal issues and crafting clear analyses and advice, tailored for client internal or external audiences and strategic purposes.
Businesses operating in Canada, or considering operating in Canada, may benefit from the following services:
Whether you are looking for basic business registration, incorporation, or minute book maintenance, we can take care of your businesses core legal obligations to register and maintain records.
Boards of directors and executives frequently face complex issues that require them to seek legal advice in order to discharge their legal and fiduciary duties.
Mergers, acquisitions, sale of business assets, reorganizations, and more.
When you are looking to set up template agreements for your business or would like help negotiating an important contract.
Mediation is the alternative dispute resolution path that gives the parties the greatest ability to control the result. Engaging in mediation provides the parties in a dispute the opportunity to find mutually satisfactory solutions without the time and expense of a court proceeding. When direct negotiations have failed, a structured, issues-based mediation with a neutral and impartial facilitator can often lead to resolution.
Building upon her extensive experience with client negotiations and corporate governance, Julia can be retained to act as mediator for a full range of commercial, contractual, shareholder and board member disputes.
To best serve her mediation clients, Julia does not act as a mediator for any of her legal services clients.