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Megan Filmer

Partner
Vancouver
About

Megan has a broad, transactional-based practice involving all aspects of corporate and lending law, with ‎particular focus on private company mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, private equity, and ‎corporate finance.

Megan advises clients on a wide range of domestic and international transactions, including private ‎company acquisitions and divestitures, lending and financing, corporate reorganizations and private equity ‎transactions.‎

Megan also acts as general counsel for a number of B.C.-based businesses in a variety of industries, ‎assisting with their strategic planning and growth, commercial contracts, corporate governance and ‎corporate finance needs. As a key advisor to each organization, Megan draws on specialized areas of the ‎firm, including tax, real estate, litigation, IP and employment law services, to ensure that her clients’ legal ‎needs are met in a timely, cost-effective and thoughtful way. The industries in which her clients operate ‎include forestry, truck and equipment dealerships, steel distribution, professional services, specialized engineering and restaurants.‎

Megan has been recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions Law‎.

Areas of FocusFinancial ServicesCorporateIntellectual Property
Bar admissionsBritish Columbia, 1996Yukon Territory, 1996

EXPERIENCE

  • Corporate and lending counsel to Inland Truck & Equipment Ltd., an industry-leading dealer and service provider of heavy trucks and equipment with operations across Western Canada and the Western U.S., including in its acquisition of Edmonton Kenworth Ltd.
  • Acts for CIBC’s Indigenous Banking group in completing credit facilities to indigenous economic development enterprises for the acquisition of forest tenures, casinos, industrial developments and other assets.
  • Acts for CIBC’s Diversified Commercial Banking group and National Accounts group in bilateral and CIBC-led syndicated credit facilities to a variety of enterprises in BC, the Yukon and Alberta
  • Corporate counsel to a number of BC based forestry companies, including forest tenure management and ‎log marketing firms and sawmill operators.
  • Represents the RBC-led syndicate of lenders with respect to a $400 million operating loan facility to a BC-‎based forestry company.
  • Advised ZLC Employee Benefits Solutions, the employee benefit division of ZLC Financial, a well-respected boutique financial services firm based in Vancouver, B.C., on its strategic partnership with Synex Business Performance of Quebec. 
  • Lead transaction counsel to Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd., Marubeni Corporation and Daishowa North ‎America Corporation in the $465 million acquisition of Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd. by Mercer ‎International Inc., a Canadian public company.
  • Corporate counsel to a steel products distributor with operations across Western Canada ‎and in the US, including in its acquisition of a specialty metals business based in Alberta ‎and BC and with respect to its $123 million trade credit, operating and construction credit facility from ‎HSBC and EDC.
  • Canadian corporate counsel for a number of US based enterprises commencing business in Canada.
  • Counsel to a variety of professional partnerships in renewing their respective partnership and shareholder ‎agreements.
Languages
  • English

Awards

  • Recognized, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Best Lawyers in Canada, (2016 – 2027)
  • Corporate Mid-Market, Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, (2023 – 2025)
Education
  • LL.B., University of British Columbia, 1995
  • B.A., English (Honours), McGill University, 1992

Publications

  • On the editorial board and the author of Chapter 1 (Introduction to the B.C. and Federal Acts) of the B.C. ‎Company Law Practice Manual
  • Author of Practical Law Canada, Business Corporations: Federal/Provincial Guide (BC)

Community Involvement

  • Former Director, Trafalgar Out-of-School Care Society
  • Former Director, McBride Museum Society, Whitehorse, Yukon

My latest insights

Publication

Food and Beverage News and Trends - September 20, 2024

20 September 2024 .14 minute read

Publication

Cautionary notes on gun-jumping in M&A negotiations

26 June 2024 .4 minute read

Publication

Court orders consultation with First Nations before granting mineral claims in BC

2 October 2023 .11 minute read

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+1 604-643-6441
(Work, Vancouver)