Jacqueline (Jack) Goslett

• Recognized in The Secured Lender's 2023 Women in Secured Finance issue
• Recipient of the Harold G Fox Award (Academic Excellence), University of Windsor Law School, 2010 
• Recipient of the Kellerman Family Bursary (Securities Law), 2010 
• Recipient of the Maritime Law Book Ltd. Prize in Legal Profession, 2010 
• Recipient of the Sutts, Strosberg LLP Award in Labour Law, 2011

Professional Activities

• Jack was a summer student and an articling student at the firm prior to returning as an associate.
• Before attending law school, Jack worked at one of Canada’s leading technology companies as a specialist in the areas of global mobility and new business development.

Memberships

• Co-Chair, Aird & Berlis Women’s Initiative
• Independent Director, Young Women in Law
• Women in Capital Markets
• Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA)
• Turnaround Management Association

Acted as Canadian counsel to Kuehne+Nagel with respect to its acquisition of Farrow, a Canadian customs brokerage, transportation and logistics business.

Acted as Canadian counsel to a U.S. private equity firm that invests in technology, business services and industrial companies in its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of a Canadian-based cybersecurity firm and amendments to the fund’s term and asset-based credit arrangements.

Acted as legal counsel to San Cristobal Mining Inc., a private mining company formed under the laws of British Columbia, in its acquisition of Minera San Cristóbal S.A. and all associated assets from Sumitomo Corporation, as well as a related equity financing and two debt financings.

Acts on a regular basis as counsel to a large U.S.-based high-tech commercial bank (also a Schedule III Canadian Bank) which lends to early-stage start-ups and companies experiencing high growth, primarily in the technology sector.

Acts on a regular basis for Schedule I Canadian banks, asset-based lenders and borrowers with respect to their secured lending facilities.

Frequently retained by international law firms on cross-border financing deals to provide Canadian legal advice and opinions with respect to security and other financing-related matters in Canada.

Acted as Canadian Counsel to the (i) senior agent and lenders in connection with a senior secured syndicated loan in the amount of US$525 million; and (ii) subordinate agent and lenders in connection with a subordinate secured syndicated loan in the amount of US$400 million, the proceeds of which are being used to finance certain real estate acquisition opportunities in the U.S. food retailer sector.

Acted as Canadian counsel to the agent (a large U.S.-based bank) and lenders in connection with an asset-based revolving credit facility in the aggregate principal amount of US$225 million, the proceeds of which were used for, among other things, certain strategic acquisitions in the sporting goods manufacturing sector.

Acted as counsel to the agent (a large Canadian Bank) and lenders in connection with a secured cross-border loan in the amount of C$200 million, the proceeds of which were used for, among other things, certain strategic acquisitions in the snack food industry.

Acted for the agent (a large Canadian Bank) and the lenders on a syndicated credit facility in the aggregate amount of C$155 million to a corporation in the business of specialty grocery retailer and food distribution.

Acted as Canadian counsel to the agent (a large U.S.-based bank) and lenders in connection with a secured syndicated cross-border loan in the amount of approximately US$105 million, the proceeds of which were used for, among other things, certain strategic acquisitions in the recruitment, staffing and workplace solutions industry.

Acted as borrower’s counsel to a private company specializing in consumer electronics in connection with secured syndicated credit facility from a large Canadian Bank in the amount of C$23 million.

Acts on a regular basis as counsel to a large U.S.-based commercial bank, providing wine and vineyard financing to wine producers in Napa Valley and beyond.

Author of Interest Rates: Why It Is in Everyone’s Interest to Pay Close Attention, Aird & Berlis LLP Collateral Matters (April 2017).

Author of An Analysis of the Advantages and Significant Drawbacks of Acting as a Lawyer-Director – the Dawn of a New Era? Published in Volume III, No. 1 Corporate Governance, Federated Press (2010).

Co-Author of Defamation in the Municipal Context. Paper presented at the Six Minute Municipal Lawyer Conference (2011).

Co-Author of The Canadian Case of R. v. Patrick: Are your Privacy Rights out with the Garbage? Published in the Privacy & Data Security Law Journal (Feb. 2009).

• JD, University of Windsor, 2011
• Canadian Employee Relocation Professional (CERP) Designation, Level 1, 2008
• BBA (Hons.), Wilfrid Laurier University, 2007