Background
Julie Mansi is a Partner in our Toronto office and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2002. Ms. Mansi was both a Summer Student and an Articling Student with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP before returning as an Associate.
Ms. Mansi has a joint LL.B./M.B.A. from Dalhousie University. Prior to her legal education, in 1996 Ms. Mansi received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Political Science and History from Queen's University. In 1997 she went on to complete her Master of Arts degree in Political Science with a concurrent Diploma in Strategic Studies at York University.
Ms. Mansi has also worked in the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland and was a market research analyst for several Canadian companies in Eastern Europe.
Areas of Practice
ˇ Ms. Mansi is a corporate lawyer in the Securities and Capital Markets Practice Area, with an emphasis in transactions, mergers & acquisitions, registrant regulation and investment management.
ˇ She is also a member of the Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Investment Management Practice Groups.
Professional Experience
ˇ Advising and preparing applications on behalf of foreign and domestic investment advisers and dealers in respect of carrying on business in Canada and registration under provincial securities legislation.
ˇ Advising and participating in the distribution of novel over-the-counter derivative products such as contracts for difference (CFDs) and foreign exchange (FX) to investors in Canada.
ˇ Advising and participating in corporate reorganizations, acquisitions, mergers and divestitures for both closely and widely held corporations.
ˇ Conducted independent audits of and advised securities registrants on designing and assessing governance structures and compliance procedures, and strengthening compliance capability.
ˇ Conducting continuing education seminars for adviser and dealer clients on topics such as anti-money laundering and terrorist financing.
ˇ Representing participants in structured financing and lending transactions including asset-backed securitization transactions.
ˇ Seconded to Ontario Securities Commission, Registrant Legal Services (2007) and Mergers & Acquisitions, Take-Over Bids (2002).
Professional and Community Activities
ˇ Speaker at industry conferences including: Social Media: A Compliance Primer at the Strategy Institute's 13th Annual Compliance & Risk Management Strategies for Portfolio Managers and Fund Managers (May 2011); Contracts for Difference and Foreign Exchange Contracts at the Law Society of Upper Canada's Securities Law Update 2010; The Year After: The Canadian Registration Regime at the Independent Financial Brokers Toronto Fall Summit (November 2010); Product Due Diligence at the IIAC Winter Symposium (March 2010); Registration Reform And The Quebec Derivatives Act: Understanding the Implications for Ontario and Quebec at the Strategy Institute's 6th Annual Summit On Implementing Registration Reform (September 2009); Regulatory Developments at the Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference (October 2008); Strategy Institute's Implementing Registration Reform (May 2008); Insight Information Legal Clerk's Forum on Maintaining A Culture of Compliance (January 2007); Limited Market Dealers' Compliance Readiness Strategies Conference and Workshop on Surviving the Regulatory Audit (July 2006); and 4th Annual Forum on Anti-Money Laundering on New and Practical Strategies for Minimizing Risk and Ensuring Compliance (April 2005).
ˇ Author of numerous publications including: "Alberta Securities Commission proposes changes to regulation of over-the-counter derivatives" (April 2011); "New Ontario Derivatives Legislation" (December 2010); "Continued Harmonization Regarding the Distribution of CFDs and Forex: BC Securities Commission Grants Order to CMC Markets" (June 2010); "BCSC Companion Policy 91-502CP Short Term Foreign Exchange Transactions" (December 2009); "CFDs and Forex Now Available to Retail Investors in Ontario and Quebec" (October 2009); "AMF Publishes Draft Regulation to the Derivatives Act (Quebec) (October 2008); "Short Selling Restrictions in Canada" (September 2008); "Canadian Securities Regulators Release Comprehensive Registration Rule For Comment" (February 2007); "Proposed National Instrument 31-103: Enhanced Compliance And Supervision Expectations" (March 2007).
ˇ Member of the Canadian Bar Association (Ontario).