Robin Katherine Burns

Robin's practice covers a broad range of commercial and transactional work, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, private equity and institutional investments.

Robin has experience acting for domestic and international clients in a variety of industries, such as food and beverage (including the plant-based and alternative proteins sector), technology and life sciences. In addition, she routinely provides pro-bono legal advice to a number of charitable and not-for-profit organizations.

In 2018, Robin completed a secondment within the medical device division of a large multinational life sciences company, where she advised on commercial arrangements and acted as the Canadian project manager on a global divestiture of the company's blood glucose monitoring business to private equity.

J.M. Smucker on its US$305-million divestiture of its Voortman brand to Second Nature Brands, a CapVest Partners portfolio company

Maple Leaf Foods in connection with its "butterfly" spin-off of Canada Packers as a new independent public company

COFRA Holding on its acquisition of Ontario Plants Propagation Limited from Sunridge Partners