Barbara R.C. Doherty

Barbara Doherty is our exclusively recommended Corporate Law expert in the Canada on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Barbara directly using the contact details listed above.

Barbara is actively involved in helping foreign direct investors expand and establish their businesses in Canada.  Her clients come to her from around the globe, including from the United States, Brazil, Australia, India, England, Portugal and Italy.

Barbara has a broad corporate/commercial practice with specialties in securities, capital markets, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. She is actively involved in dispute resolution, settling, and providing support in prosecuting litigious matters. She works with both Canadian and international clients.

Barbara has acted for issuers, controlling shareholders, independent committees, and registrants. She has experience with transactions relating to corporate acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganisations with securities, regulatory, competition, and Investment Canada implications.

Barbara has a wealth of experience in mergers and acquisitions. Barb’s strength is her ability to help clients plan, orchestrate, and successfully implement complex transactions within time-sensitive, regulated environments.

Barbara has acted on private placements and prospectus offerings for both foreign and domestic registrants and issuers including investment funds and government agencies. These offerings consist of various equity and debt instruments. She has also acted on exempt and non-exempt takeover bids for offerors, targets, controlling shareholders, and dealers.

Firm Overview:

Founded in the 1920s, Gardiner Roberts LLP has grown to become a strategically placed mid-sized business law firm with a diverse client base which includes two of Canada’s largest banks, several medium to large-sized municipalities, agencies, boards and commissions and other government entities, high tech and software companies, real estate developers, lenders and investors.

A number of our lawyers have enjoyed in-house corporate positions and been appointed as board members of tribunals or as judges.

Gardiner Roberts LLP is a member of MSI Global Alliance, an international alliance of carefully selected independent professional firms combining in-depth local expertise with global insight.