Faralee Chanin

Faralee Chanin is a corporate commercial lawyer with an emphasis on securities and taxation, helping Alberta businesses and not-for-profit clients with restructuring and reorganization and corporate governance. She advises boards of directors of both public and private organizations and is focused on weighing the pros and cons for any solutions being considered, to help her clients find the best way to get a deal done.

Faralee has a strong business (commerce) background and has worked for accounting firms in the past, so can understand the client perspective and the tax environment.

Tax and securities are areas of law where the subject matter is continually changing with both new legislation and case law. Most of the time, the clients Faralee helps have very complicated problems to solve and Faralee works collaboratively to assemble and lead a larger team of lawyers from different practice areas to support the client.

Faralee’s areas of practice include:

• Corporate governance
• Corporate transactions
• Corporate reorganizations and restructuring
• Due diligence
• Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and privatization transactions
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Fundraising 
• Purchase agreements
• Securities and taxation
• Takeovers and reverse takeovers