Catherine Lynn Carscallen

Catherine advises clients on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters and supports their ongoing corporate/commercial legal needs, including contract drafting and review, secured financings, business formation, reorganizations, general corporate maintenance and governance, and regulatory compliance.

Catherine’s practice includes a particular focus on information technology and e-commerce matters. She has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting a wide range technology agreements, including licensing, outsourcing, services, reseller and distribution agreements, and regularly advises clients with respect to e-commerce matters including on-line contracting and consumer protection.

Alongside her corporate/commercial practice, Catherine has extensive experience advising clients on all aspects of privacy law. She advises both Canadian and international organizations on compliance with applicable private and public sector Canadian privacy laws and anti-spam laws. Her practice includes assisting clients with privacy policies, audits and impact assessments, and providing guidance on cross border privacy issues, data retention, preventing and managing data breaches including breach notification and reporting obligations, and responding to access requests, complaints and investigations. Catherine regularly advises and assists clients with privacy and data protection matters in the context of acquisitions and sales of businesses, services agreements, outsourcing and cloud computing agreements and other business transactions, as well as in workplace policies.