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General Biography
Practice Areas
Accounting Finance
Business Commercial
Employment Law
Estate Probate Trusts
Financial Markets
International & Cross-Border
Securities
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Background and Education
Timothy Unwin, ICD.D. brings over 30 years of securities, corporate/ commercial, and mergers and acquisitions experience to the JAMS Toronto panel. An expert in corporate governance, Mr. Unwin has spent a lifetime advising and steering Canadian and international businesses in diverse sectors, including: banking/finance, oil and gas, public utilities, real estate trusts, mining ventures, and public charities.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
Acted in mediation and arbitration respecting commercial and trust interests and obligations
Acted as counsel to Canadian and international financial institutions in mediation of many issues relating to the regulation of those institutions, particularly securities regulatory matters
Chairman of an annual conference of financial industry professionals meeting to consider interventions with regulators in respect of matters affecting those institutions
Acted as counsel to numerous parties in contentious mergers and acquisitions and mediation of inter-party differences arising in those transactions
Representative Matters
Negotiation on behalf of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce of the disclosure regime applicable to it and other Canadian chartered banks in connection with proposed financings
Negotiation on behalf of the underwriters of the disclosure obligations of Sun life Financial Inc. in connection with the demutualisation of that company
Negotiation of the disclosure obligation of bank sponsored derivative products in Canada
Responsibility for the strategic direction of a private trust dispute and the ensuing arbitration respecting asset valuation
Negotiation of the terms of the wind down of a merchant bank and the division of assets amongst owners of its managers
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS
Lecturer, Mediation Section, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Member, Law Society of Upper Canada, 1968-present
Foreign Legal Consultant, New York State Bar, 2004-present
Former Director, C.A. Bancorp, Inc. (TSX:BKP)
Former Director, Charter Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX-V:CRH.U)
Former Director, Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd., Grand Cayman
Former Director, Bitech Petroleum Corporation, a public Canadian oil and gas company
Former Director, Perimeter Financial Corporation
Background and Education
Chairman, Evoke Neuroscience, Inc., 2011-present
Chairman, Liberty Silver Corporation (Director since 2010)
Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, 1974-present
Partner Emeritus, Toronto, Ontario, 2004-present
Managing Partner, London, England, 1986-1989
Managing Partner, New York, 2004-2008
Chairman, Toronto Community Foundation, 1993-1997 and 2000-2002
ICD.D., Institute of Corporate Directors, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2006
LL.B., University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
B.Comm., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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