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Barbara Miller Toronto Lawyer

Barbara Miller *

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Jurisdiction Ontario, 1981
Language(s) English
Office(s) Toronto
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*practising through a professional corporation
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Overview

Barbara Miller’s broad practice is focused on communications, mergers and acquisitions, agribusiness law, corporate governance, public private partnerships and infrastructure projects, and general corporate/commercial matters.

Barbara represents clients on international, cross border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, as well as in connection with restructuring and infrastructure transactions. Her valuable experience includes providing advice with the structuring of joint venture, partnership and shareholder arrangements, and corporate reorganizations generally. She also actively advises on agreements for the manufacturing, supply, and licensing of goods and services, frequently on behalf of US and other non-Canadian entities, as well as on related regulatory matters, including those applicable to the Canadian nuclear industry.

Previously serving as Co-Chair of the firm’s Communications practice group, Barbara has acted for clients on leading investments, acquisitions, dispositions and financings of telecommunications and broadcasting entities in Canada. Barbara also provides general regulatory advice to local and global members of the communications industry and guides them in their dealings with Canadian regulatory authorities. Involved in film financings, and domestic and international production and co-production agreements, Barbara assists applicants seeking tax credits and other government funding for Canadian television and film projects. She also helps clients to navigate the CRTC’s unsolicited telecommunications and do-not-call list rules, and Canada’s anti-spam legislation.

Frequently advising on matters of corporate governance in respect of both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, Barbara counsels corporate trustees and management teams on their fiduciary duties and assists corporations in establishing and structuring their operations and affairs in compliance with legislative requirements. 

Barbara has considerable experience in relation to Health Canada’s regulatory regime respecting cannabis, having been engaged in providing advice to industry participants since 2013. She has helped applicants for licenses under the Cannabis Act (Canada) and the Cannabis Regulations, and its predecessor legislation, as well as advising on provincial and municipal requirements in connection with retail operations and otherwise. She also supports a broad range of others engaged in the arena, including lenders, private equity and other investors, investment bankers, insurers, suppliers and other service providers. Barbara actively advises start-up operations, those engaged in technological innovation pertaining to the production, cultivation, processing, storage and distribution of cannabis based products and in relation to the packaging and labelling, promotion and marketing and the importation and exportation of cannabis.

Achievements

Client Work

  • Kellogg Company successfully completes separation into two independent, publicly traded companies, Kellanova and WK Kellogg Co., [Deal - Kellogg Company], Kellogg Company separates into two independent public companies.
  • Skye Bioscience signs arrangement agreement to acquire Emerald Health Therapeutics in a share-for-share transaction, [Deal - Skye Bioscience Inc], Emerald is a Vancouver-based Canadian licensed cannabis producer that is exiting the cannabis sector and pivoting into the pharmaceutical sector. Skye Bioscience is a US-based biopharmaceutical company focused on development of proprietary cannabinoid derivatives for medical treatment of various diseases.
  • Ring International Holding acquires Maricann for C$12.4 million and certain other property from Wayland Group, [Deal - Ring International Holding AG], On April 23, 2020, Ring International Holding AG (“Ring”) completed its indirect acquisition all of the issued and outstanding shares of Wayland Group Corp.’s subsidiary, Maricann Inc. (“Maricann”), and certain other property of Wayland for a purchase price of up to CAD $12,400,000 (the “Transac...
  • Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority achieves financial close Gordie Howe International Bridge Project, [Deal - Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority], On September 28, 2018, Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority, a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada, reached financial close with Bridging North America General Partnership (a partnership indirectly held by ACS Infrastructure Canada Inc., Fluor Canada Ltd. and Aecon Concessions, a division o...
  • BearCom acquired by affiliate of Bertram, [Deal - BearCom Group, Inc.], On July 6, 2018, BearCom Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of BearCom Group, Inc. (“BearCom”), was acquired by OAO Acquisitions, Inc. (“OAO”).  BearCom is one of the United States’ preeminent providers of wireless communications equipment and solutions for two-way radios and other voic...
  • BearCom Group acquires Spectrum Communications, [Deal - BearCom Group, Inc.], On June 1, 2018, BearCom Acquisition Canada Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of BearCom Group, Inc. (“BearCom”), directly and indirectly acquired all of the issued  and outstanding shares of Spectrum Communications Ltd. (“Spectrum”).  BearCom is one of the United States’ preeminent providers of w...
  • Acted in connection with the sale of Tiffany Gate Foods, [Deal - Confidential Client]
  • Acted in relation to the pre-closing restructuring of Fer-Pal Construction in connection with the sale of 51% of the shares of the corporation to Logistec, [Deal - Confidential Client]
  • A&E Networks acquires global distribution rights to 150 Reel One Movies, [Deal - A&E Television Networks, LLC], A&E Television Networks, LLC (A&E) acquired the global distribution rights to more than 150 movies from Reel One Entertainment, and secured an output deal with the company covering 15 additional movies a year. This deal represents the expansion of A&E’s movie offering A&E, a New York-based entert...

Career & Education

Education

  • LLB McGill University
  • BCL McGill University

Community involvement

  • Board Member, B'nai Brith Canada Foundation
  • Frequent participant in the Law Society of Upper Canada's "Feed the Hungry" breakfast program

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Member, International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
  • Past Secretary to the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada and a member of the Management Team
  • Member, International Telecommunications Committee of the Canadian Council for International Business
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, Ontario Bar Association
  • Member, International Bar Association

Knowledge

Events

News

Publications

Speaking Engagements

  • Recently legalized Cannabis industries growing opportunities, 2/16/2021
  • Corporate Cybersecurity Challenges and Legal Concerns, 5/4/2015
  • Panel discussion addressing women in the legal profession, 3/13/2014
Speaker Recently legalized Cannabis industries growing opportunities IPBA : Inter-Pacific Bar Association
Corporate Cybersecurity Challenges and Legal Concerns Corporate Cyber Security Challenges, Legal Concerns and Made to Measure Protection for Directors and Officers location location Toronto
Panel discussion addressing women in the legal profession Women and the Law Committee, University of Toronto Law School location location Toronto

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