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 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 reorganizations 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.

Expertise

• Business and Corporate Commercial
• Securities and Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance, M&A, Private Equity

Education

• JD, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 1980
• B.Ed, McGill University, 1970

Bar Admission

Ontario

Firm Overview:

For over 100 years, Gardiner Roberts has combined the benefits of a full-service law firm with the dexterity of a mid-sized one. Our focused, cross-disciplinary, one-team approach and commitment to understand your business joins our relevant expertise, immediacy and dedication to providing client-centric, hands-on service. 100% Canadian and fully independent, we offer a level of overall efficiency and cost-effectiveness that larger firms can’t touch. Resisting “cookie-cutter” law, Gardiner Roberts has built its name – one rewarding client relationship at a time.