Stacy Elizabeth McLean

Stacy leads the Blakes Investment Products & Asset Management group and is co-chair of the Blakes Fund Formation group. Her legal practice focuses on investment funds, fund formation, corporate finance, securities regulatory matters and public company transactions.

Stacy advises Canadian and international asset management companies on the structuring, regulation and registration of closed-end investment funds, mutual funds, structured notes and flow-through limited partnerships. She also works closely with investment dealers, financial institutions and companies on debt and equity financings, registration and regulatory compliance, private placements and fund formation.

She regularly advises public issuers and their boards on various matters, including governance and shareholder engagement.

CIBC on the launch of the first-ever Canadian Depositary Receipts ("CDRs"), a novel structured product providing Canadian investors with access to hedged fractional investing in large-cap foreign stocks

Disruption Ventures Limited Partnership in connection with its launch of a women-focused venture fund, the first private female-founded venture capital fund for women entrepreneurs, and its initial raise of C$11.5-million

Canoe Financial LP on its acquisition of the investment fund management contracts for nine Fiera Capital mutual funds from Fiera Capital Corporation