Laurie McQueen

Representative Work

Acted on behalf of Proventus Bioscience, a corporation involved in the development, manufacturing and distribution of bacterial and other microbial products for application across various industries, in connection with the subscription and acquisition by NCH Corporation of a minority equity interest in Proventus

Acted on behalf of SupremeX Inc., a leading North American manufacturer and marketer of envelopes and growing provider of paper-based packaging solutions, in connection with its approximately $6M acquistion of Graf-Pak Inc., a manufacturer of folding carton products primarily provided to the food and cosmetics sectors

Acted on behalf of a group of corporations providing management and outsourcing services in Morocco to customers located in Canada and France in connection with the sale of all their issued and outstanding shares to a major international player in such field of business

Acted on behalf of BXVentures Studio Canada in respect of the creation and first round financing of the first Canadian cleantech venture studio, which focuses on the accelerated development and commercialization of cleantech IP originating in Canadian universities and laboratories

Acted on behalf of the acquirer of a federally chartered, registered financial services and financial planning brokerage firm, authorized to act as the Managing General Partner (MGA) for numerous notable financial institutions, whose products it distributes through licensed independent financial security advisors throughout Canada

Acted on behalf of a VoIP, unified communications and fiber optics solutions provider in connetion with its acquisition of all issued and outstanding shares of a supplier of IP telephony services

Acted on behalf of a group of investors in connection with the Series A financing in a Montreal-based MedTech start-up developing a novel patented system

Acted on behalf of SupremeX Inc., a leading North American manufacturer and marketer of envelopes and growing provider of paper-based packaging solutions, in connection with its USD$20M acquisition of substantially all the assets of Chicago-based Royal Envelope Corporation, a preeminent North American envelope manufacturer and lithography company

Acted on behalf of a leading network of 18 recognized hearing care clinics across Quebec, in respect of the acquisition of the assets of a competitor, helping to further secure our client’s reach across Quebec as well as their status as an industry leader in the provision of hearing care

Acted on behalf of Planète Mobile Inc., one of the largest networks of authorized Rogers and Fido dealers in Canada, in connection with its strategic acquisition of Communications Méga-Sat Inc. and Communications Méga-Sat Trois-Rivières Inc., two companies with an important presence in the mobile communication distribution industry in the Province of Quebec; this transaction further solidified our client’s market share by adding an additional 12 locations throughout Quebec to its existing 25-location network

Represents emerging companies as well as private and institutional investors through every stage of the investment cycle – seed, development and growth

Acted for Mylo Financial Technologies Inc. in its private equity offering of securities and convertible debt

Acts regularly for Supremex Inc., a leading North American manufacturer and marketer of envelopes and provider of packaging and specialty products, in its acquisitions in Canada and the U.S.

Advised and negotiated an equity and debt financing for a distressed Quebec-based manufacturer involving a large group of minority shareholders

Acted for Covera Technologies Inc., a consumer-based digital insurance brokerage platform, in connection with the sale of substantially all of its assets to Insurego Inc.

Acted for a large Quebec-based transportation company in connection with various acquisitions of other transportation companies

Acted for the buyers of Groupe Planète Mobile Inc. and certain affiliated entities in a transaction financed by Roynat Inc. and Capital Croissance PME II S.E.C.

Acted for a group of investors in connection with the investment in and reorganization of two Montreal-based food manufacturers and distributers

Acted for a Canada-wide franchise company operating the La Prep franchises in connection with the sale of its assets

Represented the purchaser in the acquisition of substantially all the assets related to the manufacturing of Commensal products from Imvescor Restaurant Group Inc.

Memberships and Affiliations

Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Quebec

Association of Quebec Women in Finance (AFFQ)

Candian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA)

Law Society of Ontario

M&A Club Canada

Quebec Bar (2008)

Réseau Capital