LaBarge Weinstein

Deborah L. Weinstein

Contact Info

T. 613.599.9600 ext. 202
F. 613.599.0018
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Services

Corporate Commercial Law
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Employment Law
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity
Securities (Public and Private)
Technology & Licensing

Law School

Osgoode Hall Law School

Year of Call

1985 Ontario

 

Debbie is a co-founder and partner at LaBarge Weinstein practising business, corporate finance and securities law. Debbie's practice emphasizes public and private corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, day to day public company advice and generally advising private corporations, investors. lenders and investment banks.

Debbie represents a range of clients from entrepreneurs and their start up companies to Canadian public and foreign issuers. Foreign knowledge-based companies seek out her assistance in establishing or acquiring businesses in Canada. Debbie advises boards of directors on corporate governance and transaction-specific matters.

Debbie is ranked as one of Canada's Top Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers in a survey conducted by Financial Post in 2007. In January 2008, American Lawyer named Debbie one of Canada's Leading 500 Lawyers. She has also be named one of Canada's Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs by PROFIT and Chatelaine magazines and one of Canada's Top 25 Women Lawyers by Lexpert.

Prior to founding LaBarge Weinstein, Debbie was managing partner of the Ottawa office of Blake, Cassels & Graydon, one of Canada's largest law firms, on the national partnership committee and a partner there from 1991 until 1997. Debbie began her career at Blakes in Toronto where she worked in the corporate and securities group as a student and lawyer from 1981-1987.


Selected Clients/Transactions
Representation of dozens of IPO's and representation of public companies listed on the TSX and Nasdaq, including:

  • JDS Fitel Inc. (now JDS Uniphase Corporation)
  • GSI Lumonics Inc.
  • JetForm Corporation
  • MOSAID Technologies Limited
Debbie has taken the lead role in dozens of high tech acquisitions, including sales to:
  • Cisco Systems Corporation
  • Lucent Corporation
  • Sun Microsystems
  • PMC-Sierra Inc.
  • Alcatel.


Memberships/Organizations/Community Involvement

  • Past Chair of the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI)
  • Governor of Ashbury College
  • Board member of the Ottawa Heart Institute and United Way
  • Dean's Advisory Board - School of Management, University of Ottawa
  • Canada's Top 25 Women Lawyers (Lexpert Magazine, September 2003)
  • Canada's Top Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer (Financial Post, 2007)