Jake Lipnik, Toronto

About Jake

Jake advises clients across various industry sectors on a wide range of technology transactions and complex commercial arrangements, including system procurement and implementation, outsourcing, SaaS, technology development and licensing, payments and loyalty, and strategic partnerships.

Jake also has extensive experience counselling clients on the technology-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including conducting due diligence and negotiating transition services agreements.

Before joining Blakes, Jake was an associate in the technology groups at two preeminent global law firms in Chicago, Illinois.

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Jake has advised the following clients on the matters described below:

Technology and Outsourcing

Technology providers on their customer agreements for software, technology services, cloud solutions, cybersecurity solutions or system implementations
An investment manager on an agreement to outsource certain finance and accounting business processes as part of its finance transformation project
A major food company on an agreement to outsource certain finance business processes

Payments and other Financial Products/Services

Large Canadian banks on their negotiations with their payment networks
Financial institutions on a variety of payments-related agreements, including with respect to co-branded credit card and loyalty programs

Mergers and Acquisitions

Royal Bank of Canada on its C$13.5-billion acquisition of HSBC Bank of Canada
Bell Canada on its C$1-billion proposed sale of Northwestel, the leading telecommunications service provider in the North, to Sixty North Unity, a consortium of Indigenous communities from the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
Bell Media Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BCE Inc., in its C$410-million acquisition of the Canadian business of OUTFRONT Media Inc.
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. on its C$3.4-billion proposed acquisition of Stelco, an integrated steelmaker located in Ontario