Renée Gilead

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Renée Gilead

Renée Gilead is a Calgary-based Partner whose practice focuses on corporate law, commercial law and mergers and acquisitions. She has experience in both domestic and international jurisdictions, having practised law in Calgary, Alberta, and Sydney, Australia.

Renée advises clients at all stages of the business life cycle on a broad range of strategic transactions, including asset and share acquisitions and divestitures, private financings and corporate reorganizations. She routinely assists clients in the negotiation and drafting of corporate and commercial agreements and provides day-to-day governance and compliance advice.

Renée has extensive experience across a broad range of industries, including oil and gas, manufacturing, construction, health care, financial services, information technology and the not-for-profit sector. She is a pragmatic, results-oriented lawyer who values collaboration and works closely with her clients to develop practical, effective solutions to their legal and business matters.

Renée's representative matters include:

  • Acting on behalf of a construction business with respect to a strategic shareholder exit transaction
  • Acting on behalf of a manufacturing business in respect of an asset sale transaction with an aggregate purchase price of over $4 million
  • Acting on behalf of a not-for-profit organization with respect to a strategic asset divestiture
  • Acting on behalf of a professional services business with respect to a strategic shareholder exit transaction
  • Acting on behalf of a professional services business with respect to a strategic asset acquisition
  • Advising the shareholders of an engineering business in respect of a share sale transaction to a U.S. buyer with an aggregate purchase price of over $2.5 million
  • Acting on behalf of a renewable energy services business in respect of an asset purchase transaction with an aggregate purchase price of over $9 million
  • Advising the shareholders of an oil and gas inspection services provider in respect of a share sale transaction with an aggregate purchase price of over $40 million
  • Advising the shareholders of a natural gas service provider in respect of a share sale transaction with an aggregate purchase price of approximately $15 million
  • Acting on behalf of a personal services business in respect of an asset purchase transaction with key strategic value to the enterprise
  • Advising the shareholders of a personal services business in respect of a share sale transaction with an aggregate purchase price of over $2 million
  • Acting on behalf of a personal services business in respect of an asset sale transaction with an aggregate purchase price of over $10 million

Qualifications

  • Education
  • Rankings
  • Bar Admissions
  • LawVision
    Legal Project Management Certification
    2022
  • University of Calgary
    Juris Doctor
    2013
  • University of Western Ontario
    BMOs Organizational and Human Resource Management
    2006
  • New South Wales
    2017
  • Alberta
    2014