Executive Summary
James Szumski is an entrepreneurial corporate lawyer with a diverse legal background, having practiced in securities, corporate, commercial, secured finance, insolvency and restructuring law at major regional and national law firms, as well as inhouse as a senior executive at a publicly-listed technology start-up. Before becoming a lawyer, James earned a degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto and worked on the development of novel artificial intelligence applications.
James leverages his broad range of expertise to provide practical and creative solutions to clients facing complex, multi-dimensional challenges. He acts for both public and private companies engaging in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance transactions and corporate reorganizations, as well as advising clients on matters of corporate governance, securities law and regulatory compliance, privacy and information laws, consumer protection and other corporate commercial matters.
Expertise
Representative Work
- Acted as counsel to a consortium of investors lead by Globalive Capital Inc. in their acquisition and concurrent financing of Wealth One Bank of Canada, a Canadian Schedule I Bank, in a transaction valued at over $100 million
- Acted as counsel to the founders of an AI-consulting firm to TELUS in a transaction valued at over $22 million
- Counsel to a TSX-listed healthcare-AI company in a transformational strategic transaction that reorganized, rebranded and recapitalized its business
- Counsel to the purchaser of a TSX-listed social media company in a management-driven going-private transaction
- Counsel to the vendors of a popular online real estate platform in a cross-border divestiture to a US-based public company
- Counsel to a number of family offices in connection with their investments, divestitures and other day-to-day affairs