Barbara
Miller
Partner
Barbara Miller is the Co-Chair of Fasken Martineau's National Communications Law Practice Group. Her practice is broadly based and multi-faceted, but has been concentrated in recent years in the communications sector, about which she has extensive knowledge. She has been engaged in connection with many of the leading investments in, and acquisitions, dispositions and financings of telecommunications and broadcasting entities in Canada, in addition to providing general regulatory advice to industry members. Barbara regularly counsels clients on the structuring of transactions to comply with Canadian foreign ownership restrictions. She has represented AT&T in Canada since the early 1990's, including in all aspects of its investments in AT&T Canada and, through AT&T Wireless (now Cingular Wireless), in Rogers Wireless, as well as in relation to AT&T's joint ventures with British Telecommunications and its subsequent dispositions of these investments. Barbara is also involved in film financings and domestic and international production and co-production agreements on behalf of clients, such as CHUM Limited.
Outside of the communications arena, Barbara represents her clients on a wide variety of international, cross border and domestic merger and acquisition and banking transactions, including project and infrastructure loans. She also frequently advises directors and officers on matters of corporate governance, and has particular expertise in advising corporate trustees and their management teams in relation to their fiduciary duties. She has been an active participant in Fasken Martineau's management and has served in numerous capacities, including a three-year term on her firm's Executive Committee, as Chair of the Professional Personnel Committee, and on the Compensation Committee and the Governance and Compensation Review Task Force. Barbara has consistently received the highest AV Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell.
Barbara is a frequent speaker and panellist at seminars. She has been a lecturer for the telecommunications management course offered by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering of the University of Toronto through its Professional Development Centre. She participated in a regulatory roundtable discussion on VoIP at the 2004 IP World Conference and in April of 2005 chaired a panel on Deal Protection Mechanisms in Cross-Border Transactions at the Canadian Institute's Advanced Forum on Mergers and Acquisitions. Barbara chaired a panel on foreign ownership at the Canadian Telecommunications Forum presented by the Insight Information in October of 2005, on wireless penetration at the CWTA annual conference in May of 2006 and was one of the panellists at the CWTA Education Series conference hosted by Fasken Martineau on June 6, 2007 on the subject of foreign ownership restrictions.
Selected Experience
Publications
Presentations
Membership/Affiliations
- Corporate 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 Chamber of Commerce Ecomm-Telecomm Working Group
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, International Bar Association
- Member, Computer Law Association, Inc
Community Involvement
- Member, B'nai Brith Canada Foundation
- Frequent participant in the Law Society of Upper Canada's "Feed the Hungry" breakfast program
Honours and Awards
- In February of 2006, Barbara was presented with the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada's Achievement Award in recognition of the significant work undertaken by her on behalf of the organization, which contributed to its growth and development
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