Janne Duncan
Janne Duncan joined Macleod Dixon as a Partner in 2007 after having been a partner at another law firm and practices in the areas of Corporate/Commercial, Securities and Mergers and Acquisitions and Mining – Global Mining.
Areas of expertise include:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Shareholder meetings and proxy solicitations
- Continuous disclosure and regulatory compliance (acting for NYSE/TSX-listed companies)
- Shareholder rights plans (poison pills)
- Executive compensation
- Private placements and other financings
- Private equity
- A unique specialty in securities lending and repurchase/reverse repurchase (repo) transactions (for dealers, custodial lending agents, hedge funds, borrowers and lenders)
- Investment funds (public and private)
- Hedge funds
- Alternative trading systems
- LL.B., Queen's University
- M.A. (English), Queen's University
- B.A. (Honours), University of Toronto
- Ontario, 1990
- Ontario Bar Association
- Member of the Securities Law Subcommittee of the Ontario Bar Association (which prepares submissions to the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on various securities law initiatives)
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
- Women in Capital Markets
- Women in Mining
- Speaker, Executive Compensation Seminar, Vancouver, Calgary & Toronto, October 2008 (click here for more information)
- Course Instructor, Queen’s Law School, “Comparative Corporate Governance” (Second Term), 2007 & 2009
- Speaker, TSX/AIM Listing Requirements (with the Toronto Stock Exchange), Mines & Money Conference, London, U.K., November 2007 and December 2008
- Speaker, Risk Mitigation Through Legal Structures, Canada-South Africa Chamber of Business Seminar on Risk Mitigation and Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa: Striking a Balance, Toronto, June 2008
- Speaker, Extracting Their Claim: Governments from Canada to the Congo Seek to Increase Their Slice of the Profits, 6th Annual MineAfrica Seminar (Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada), Toronto, March 2008
- Speaker, Resale Restrictions, U.S. Securities Law Conference, Osgoode Hall, January 2007
- Acquisition by Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. of Kappa Energy Holdings Ltd. for $168M, 2008 (M & A)
- Plan of Arrangement of Viceroy Homes Limited and Growth Technologies (Russia) Limited, 2008 (M&A)
- Public offering of shares of Timminco Limited, 2007 (mining and energy)
- Sale of shares of Semafo Inc. by Managem S.A. to institutional investors, 2005 (mining)
- Initial public offering of International Royalty Corp. and its concurrent acquisition of the Voisey Bay nickel royalty, 2005 (mining)
- Business combination of Kinross Gold Corp., TVX Gold Inc. and Echo Bay Mines Ltd., 2003 (mining)
- Initial public offering of High Income Principal and Yield Securities Corp. (HI Pays), 2002 (mutual funds)
- Sale by TD Bank Financial Group of $78 billion of custodial assets to CIBC Mellon Trust, 2002 (financial institutions)
- Purchase by Bank of Montreal of the Guardian Group of Funds, 2001 (mutual funds)
- Sale of Aetna Life Insurance of Canada to John Hancock Mutual Insurance Company, 1999 (insurance)
- Corporate Counsel and Patron of PEN Canada (world-wide writers association founded in England in 1921 to defend freedom of expression and to campaign for persecuted writers), 1990 to Present
- Director, Toyich International Projects (non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing and promoting the education and careers of classical musicians, teachers and students), 2007
- Former Director and Secretary, Women in Capital Markets (a non-profit organization sponsored by 11 major investment banking firms and fund managers, and currently comprised of more than 400 senior capital market professionals), 2001-2002
