The partners will become the new co-leads of three different practice groups
Aird & Berlis has appointed Gary Volman, Jeremy Burke, and Sidonia Tomasella to co-practice group leaders.
Volman will co-lead the capital markets group alongside Adria Leung Lim; Burke will co-lead the corporate group with Lisa Moreau; and Tomasella will co-lead the municipal and land use planning group with Andrea Skinner.
Volman has worked with domestic and international clients on cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial matters, private equity matters, public and private financings, governance and securities law. His clients operate across the technology, environmental, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, cannabis, health care, mining, and financial services sectors.
He has also advised on corporate governance matters, continuous disclosure requirements, and obligations under securities law and stock exchange policies. He has acted for companies like Closing the Gap Healthcare Group Inc. and Linamar Corporation.
Burke has tackled private business mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as corporate structuring and ongoing corporate governance, commercial agreements, and shareholders’ agreements. He has advised public and private companies in the cannabis, transportation, franchising, professional services, import/export, and retail sectors.
He also maintains a charity and not-for-profit practice that involves obtaining or amending charitable registration, implementing governance best practices, incorporating and governing under not-for-profit corporate statutes, preparing charity-specific forms of agreement, merging charities, obtaining charitable gaming licences, and assisting with general corporate or commercial matters. He brings experience from a previous stint as marketing director at PHS Network Inc. (now Canadian Health Media Network), per LinkedIn.
Tomasella guides private and public sector clients on municipal and land use planning law matters, from pre-consultation with city departments to representation before the courts and municipal authorities and administrative tribunals, including the Ontario Land Tribunal. She was once a land planner and recorded stints at the City of Toronto’s legal division and at the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
All three of the new co-practice group leaders are based in Toronto.
