Renée Gilead is an experienced business lawyer whose practice focuses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and securities law. Renée has practiced law in Calgary, Alberta and in Sydney, Australia with both national and international law firms in both jurisdictions.
Renée works with clients at all stages of the business lifecycle, providing clients with advice on a wide 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 she also provides clients with day-to-day governance and compliance advice.
Renée works with clients in a diverse array of industries and has previously advised clients in the oil and gas, manufacturing, construction, health care, financial services, information technology, and not-for-profit sectors. Renée is pragmatic and outcomes-focused and enjoys working collaboratively with her clients to find practical solutions to their legal challenges.
Examples of Renée's more recent experience includes:
- 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 natural gas services 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.
Outside the Office
Renée is an avid traveller, a lover of good wine (especially Aussie chardonnay), and a podcast junkie.