Jeremy D. Burke

First Year of Call
2009

Areas of Practice
Corporate & Commercial Law

Description
Jeremy works with his clients to ensure he is positioned to efficiently deliver insightful, practical and reliable advice. He understands the priorities and pressures that clients often face, having worked in management at a media company prior to becoming a lawyer. Clients value his business-minded approach and dedication to each client’s unique goals and long-term interests.

Jeremy is a member of the firm’s Corporate/Commercial Group, Transportation Group and Cannabis Group. He is also a Co-Chair of the Charity and Not-for-Profit Law Group. His corporate/commercial practice focuses on private business mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as corporate structuring and ongoing corporate governance, commercial agreements (of numerous varieties), and shareholders’ agreements and other business ownership arrangements. Jeremy also provides regulatory advice to both public and private companies in industries including cannabis, transportation, franchising, professional services, import/export and retail.

Jeremy’s charity and not-for-profit practice includes assisting clients with obtaining or amending charitable registration, implementing governance best practices, incorporating and governing under not-for-profit corporate statutes, preparing charity-specific forms of agreement (e.g., gift, agency/intermediary, fundraising), merging charities, obtaining charitable gaming licences, and assisting with general corporate or commercial matters.