Executive Summary
James Szumski is a corporate lawyer with a diverse and entrepreneurial background. His experience spans securities, corporate and commercial law, secured finance, and insolvency and restructuring, gained through practice at major regional and national law firms as well as in-house as a senior executive at a publicly listed technology start-up. Before entering the legal profession, James earned a degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and worked on the development of innovative artificial intelligence applications.
James draws on this multidisciplinary experience to deliver practical, creative solutions to complex and evolving business challenges. He advises public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance transactions, and corporate reorganizations, and regularly counsels clients on corporate governance, securities and regulatory compliance, privacy and information law, consumer protection, and other corporate commercial matters. Clients value his ability to bridge legal, technical, and business considerations with clarity and insight.
Expertise
Representative Work
- Counsel to a consortium of investors in their acquisition and concurrent financing of a Canadian Schedule I Bank in a transaction valued at over $90 million.
- Counsel to the vendors of an AI-consulting firm in a transaction valued at over $22 million.
- Counsel to a TSX-listed healthcare-AI company in a transformational strategic transaction that reorganized, rebranded and recapitalized its business.
- Counsel to the purchaser of a TSX-listed social media company in a management-driven going-private transaction.
- Counsel to the vendors of a popular online real estate platform in a cross-border divestiture to a US-based public company.
- Counsel to a number of family offices in connection with their investments, divestitures and other day-to-day affairs.