Jennifer Legge

First Year of Call
Ontario, 1992

Areas of Practice
Mergers & Acquisitions

Description
Jennifer Legge is Head of the Banking & Finance Group. She is also a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Restructuring & Insolvency Groups, as well as a member of the Management Committee in the Toronto office. Jennifer advises her clients on a diverse range of corporate and business law matters, having over 25 years’ experience in structuring, negotiating, documenting and administering a wide variety of financing arrangements, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated secured syndicated financings, term loan and asset based loan facilities, bilateral credit facilities, acquisitions and leveraged buyout financings, project and P3 financings, margin loans, unitranche loans, amendments and extensions, intercreditor arrangements and dividend recaps.

Jennifer advises her clients in structuring, negotiating and documenting merger and acquisition transactions across a range of industries. She acts for strategic buyers of businesses, for entrepreneurs in dispositions of family-owned businesses and for private equity investors in acquisitions and dispositions. Jennifer also regularly advises on transactions involving distressed debtors, including advising on workouts, restructurings, DIP financing, receiverships, distressed sales, realizations and insolvency proceedings and arrangements.

Professional Activities
Jennifer is a member of the Canadian Bar Association. She also has taught the Business Law Section of the Bar Admission Course and participates as a speaker in the firm’s continuing legal education program. She has spoken at industry conferences and client update seminars on credit facilities generally, on opinions in lending transactions and on the implementation of the Securities Transfer Act (Ontario).