Bio

Karen Aguilar is a lawyer in business, commercial and corporate law in our Montreal office. Her practice is mainly focused on corporate transactions and matters, including mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, corporate financing, private placements and securities. Karen’s work involves drafting and negotiating various commercial contracts and insuring compliance with the applicable laws and regulations. With considerable experience handling transactional matters, she also co-ordinates commercial due diligence teams and takes part in conducting environmental due diligence and drafting complex reports. She is also able to advise clients on such matters. Karen also acts on behalf of clients in filing access to information requests with the appropriate authorities and preparing various documents required under environmental legislation. She acts for Canadian, American and European clients from several industries, including the technology sector as well as for various institutional venture capital investment firms and private equity funds in Canada. Her knowledge of civil law and common law allows her to provide legal advice on an international basis. Since 2009, Karen has supervised the activities related to University of Montréal’s participation at the Charles Rousseau international law moot court competition in international law and was a lecturer for this course from 2013 to 2015.