Vanessa Grant

Vanessa Grant

Vanessa Grant is a partner in the firm's Toronto office. Her practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity.

Ms. Grant advises issuers, investors and underwriters on matters including public and private financings (including venture capital financing), initial public offerings, public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and joint ventures. She also provides ongoing general corporate and commercial legal advice to a number of clients.

Ms. Grant works with national and international clients in various industries, with a particular focus on life sciences companies, including biotechnology, diagnostic and medical device companies. She also represents private equity and venture capital funds investing in the life sciences industry.

Ms. Grant lectures regularly on topics related to life sciences and securities law issues. She also teaches a course in advanced securities law at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University.

Ms. Grant is a member of the Board of Directors of the Earlscourt-Crèche Child Development Institute and Summerworks Theatre Festival. She is listed in the 2009 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada, as a leading practitioner in the area of private equity.

Ms. Grant received her B.Mus. in 1992 and her BA in 1996, both from the University of Toronto. She received her LLB from Queen's University in 1995. Ms. Grant was called to the Ontario bar in 1997.