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Background:
Paul practises corporate-commercial law with Bennett Best Burn LLP of Toronto, Canada, with particular emphasis on purchase and sale transactions, business succession, private company governance, technology transfers, joint ventures and financing. His clients tend to be small and medium sized "knowledge based" companies operating in the services sector. They generally fall within the information technology, communications, financial services, renewable energy, specialty manufacturing and distribution industries. Paul has previously acted as corporate counsel to the Bank of Nova Scotia and Canadian Pacific Limited. He has served as the President of the New Brunswick and Canada Railroad Company and as a director of BNS Mortgage Corp. and Bluenose Investments Inc. He has been Chairman of the Corporations Acts and Securities Legislation Committees of the Canadian Bankers' Association, as well as Chair of the Business Law Section and Secretary and Treasurer of the Corporate Counsel Section of the Ontario Bar Association. In the not-for-profit sector, Paul has served as a director and member of the executive committee of Communities in Schools (Canada) and as President of Microchip Youth Training Association of Toronto Inc. He has also been a director of the Toronto chapters of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and the Queen's University Alumni Association. Paul has a B.A. (Hons.) in Sociology and Psychology and LL.B. from Queen's University, and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Ontario Bar and a fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers, and has completed the Canadian Securities Course and Harvard University Negotiation Workshop. He has lectured at the Ontario Bar Admission Course and York University M.B.A. school, and has been part of the training team for the Canadian Bar Association contract writing workshop for members of the Laos Bar in Vientiane. He has been published in the Banking and Finance Law Review, CMA Magazine and CGA Magazine, and is the author of Business Succession Guide published by Thomson Carswell. He is certified as a specialist in corporate and commercial law by the Law Society of Upper Canada. Paul has chaired
the OBA programmes "Due Diligence in a Wired World", "Financing New Companies",
"Buying and Selling Intellectual Property", "Helping Clients Do Business on the
Internet", "Practising Business Law Online", "Negotiating and Drafting
Preliminary Transaction Documents", "The Private Company", and "Business
Succession on Retirement". He has also chaired the Law Society programmes "Business Agreements",
"The Annotated Share Purchase and Asset Purchase Agreement",
"Rescuing the Problem Deal", "Alternative Vehicles for Carrying on Business",
and "New Lawyer Practice Series Corporate Law", and has presented at the Law
Society’s Special Lectures on Corporate & Commercial Law. A.
Paul Mahaffy
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