Megan Shaw, Toronto

About Megan

Megan provides practical strategic advice to Canadian and international clients on complex corporate and commercial arrangements, procurement processes and business-focused risk management practices across a broad range of regulated and unregulated industries including healthcare, life sciences, food & beverage, consumer products, retail, transportation, franchising, power and infrastructure.

Megan has extensive experience in negotiating complex commercial agreements related to service and distribution functions, franchising, licensing, equipment supply, operations and maintenance and manufacturing. She provides thoughtful and strategic solutions for cross-border business structuring, joint ventures, procurement and internal reorganizations. She also regularly works with organizations to provide creative solutions to a wide range of commercial and regulatory issues, including interactions and business arrangements with healthcare professionals.

International clients regularly call on Megan to advise on their expansions into Canada including support with business structuring, corporate governance and to ensure that their contracts, policies and logistics strategies meet Canadian market and industry requirements.

In 2012, Megan was seconded to a major international retailer where she worked on a variety of corporate commercial matters. She was previously seconded to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

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Megan's representative transactions include advising:

Life Sciences and Healthcare

A multinational pharmaceutical company on matters pertaining to its COVID-19 vaccine supply arrangements with the Government of Canada (acted as lead counsel)
Various companies in the sale of critical products to government authorities and agencies during the pandemic, including COVID tests (lead), ventilators and drugs
An international biotechnology company on the development and launch of its go-direct Canadian sales and distribution strategy (acted as lead counsel)
The structuring of a prominent and comprehensive patient assistance program (acted as co-counsel)
A consolidator in the Canadian health-care industry on its acquisitions, equity offerings and corporate governance matters (acted as commercial lead)
Negotiations of manufacturing, co-packaging, transportation and distribution agreements for all actors in the supply chain (including brand owners, contract manufacturers, 3PLs, wholesalers and retailers)
National health management companies on both deal and ongoing operational structuring issues, including with respect to inter-company arrangements and contracts with regulated professionals

Infrastructure and Power

The successful proponent in achieving financial close on the Gordie Howe International Bridge
Ontario Power Generation in relation to all aspects of the C$12.8-billion mid-life refurbishment of the 3,512 MW Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, one of the largest infrastructure projects in Canada
Ontario Power Generation on the design, build, finance and maintain of a water treatment plant
Royal Inland Hospital – a C$417-million project to design, build, finance and maintain a new patient-care tower in Kamloops, British Columbia
Macdonald Block Reconstruction Project – a project to design, build, finance and maintain Macdonald Block, which is a complex of four towers in Toronto, Ontario
Carillion on certain of its equity transactions involving the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and Toronto Forensic Services and Coroners Complex

Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Commercial

Elanco Animal Health Incorporated on its US$7.6-billion purchase of Bayer AG's animal health business
Maple Leaf Foods on its acquisition of Field Roast Grain Meat Company
Gauge Capital on its acquisition of eDynamic Learning
A leading multinational pharmaceutical company on the sale of its ortho-clinical diagnostics business to a U.S.-based global asset management firm
Agrium Inc. on its acquisition of Viterra's wholesale and retail agri-products division from Glencore International plc and a related third-party sale and divesture transaction
Various pension plans and other institutional investors on their private equity, real estate and infrastructure fund investments

Franchise

UAP Inc. in relation to regulatory compliance and the preparation of franchise documentation
Belron, owners of the Apple Auto Glass® and Speedy Glass® franchise systems, and other franchised businesses in Canada and internationally, in relation to regulatory compliance and the preparation of franchise documentation