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Stikeman Elliott LLP
5300 Commerce Court West
199 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario M5L 1B9
Canada
www.stikeman.com/

Stikeman Elliott is a global leader in Canadian business law, offering creative solutions to clients across Canada and around the world. The firm provides the highest quality counsel, decisive advice, and workable solutions through offices located in Montréal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, London and Sydney.

When Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott first opened the firm’s doors in 1952, they were united in their pledge to do things differently to help clients meet their Canadian business objectives. They made it their mission to deliver only the highest quality counsel and most efficient services.

Combined with a commitment to the pursuit of excellence and spirit of innovation, their direction remains a driving force behind our pledge to help advance client goals. But as Stikeman Elliott’s leadership, prominence, and recognition continue to grow, we remain true to the core values that guide us every day:

• Partnering in our clients’ success – making their goals, our goals.
 
• Finding bespoke solutions that are grounded in business realities.
 
• Providing a deep bench of legal expertise – for clear, proactive counsel.
 
• A passion for what we do – an unwavering commitment to clients.

In today’s challenging marketplace, Stikeman Elliott continues to be the firm that clients call when it counts the most, wherever they are in the world. Our passion, combined with decades of experience in each of the firm’s key markets, enables us to continue delivering creative solutions to a variety of complex legal issues.

“Stikeman Elliott exists to express the best that is in us in the service of others.” - Heward Stikeman

SFNet Member Director, Jennifer Legge



Jennifer Legge is Head of the Banking & Finance Group. She is also a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Restructuring & Insolvency Groups, as well as a member of the Management Committee in the Toronto office. Jennifer advises her clients on a diverse range of corporate and business law matters, having over 25 years’ experience in structuring, negotiating, documenting and administering a wide variety of financing arrangements, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated secured syndicated financings, term loan and asset based loan facilities, bilateral credit facilities, acquisitions and leveraged buyout financings, project and P3 financings, margin loans, unitranche loans, amendments and extensions, intercreditor arrangements and dividend recaps.

Jennifer advises her clients in structuring, negotiating and documenting merger and acquisition transactions across a range of industries. She acts for strategic buyers of businesses, for entrepreneurs in dispositions of family-owned businesses and for private equity investors in acquisitions and dispositions. Jennifer also regularly advises on transactions involving distressed debtors, including advising on workouts, restructurings, DIP financing, receiverships, distressed sales, realizations and insolvency proceedings and arrangements.