Striking the right balance.
Maureen helps our clients reach the deal that’s best for them by helping them to identify and balance the interests and risks at stake. Through frank and honest discussion, Maureen works with clients to maximize rewards and mitigate risks. The result is a strategy best-suited for our clients’ success.
Representative matters
Working with clients in a broad range of industries, including technology, fisheries, oil and gas, engineering and construction, Maureen has extensive experience in commercial transactions which ranges from contract negotiation to buying and selling businesses to financings and restructurings, as well as providing general commercial advice on the day-to-day problems facing business owners and operators.
Areas of practice:
- Corporate/Commercial
- Energy and Natural Resources
- Financial Services
- Construction Law
- Technology and Intellectual
- Property
- Asset/Equipment Finance & Leasing
- Banking
- Directors & Officers Liability
- Energy – Oil & Gas Corporate
- Litigation – Corporate-Commercial
- Project Finance
- Property Leasing
- Owner Managed Business
BAR ADMISSION(S)
Newfoundland and Labrador, 1990
LAW SOCIETY(IES)
Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador
EDUCATION
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, LL.B.,1989
Memorial University of Newfoundland, B.A., 1986
ACTIVITIES
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Department manager, Business, Stewart McKelvey, 2008-2011
- Member, Recruiting Committee, Firm-wide, Stewart McKelvey, 2005-2008
- Member, Partnership Board, Stewart McKelvey, 2002-2008, 2012 to present
- Member, Management Committee, Stewart McKelvey, St. John’s office, 2001-2004
- Member, Insurance Committee, Law Society of Newfoundland, 2006 to present
- Member, Board of Trustee, Belvedere Orphanage Fund, 2005-2011
- Member, Advisory Committee on Judicial Appointments, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2008-2009
- Member, Advisory Committee, Holy Heart Auditorium, 2006-2008
- Co-chair, Joint Committee on Legal Continuing Education, 1994 to present
- Member, Board of Directors, St. Patrick’s Mercy Home Foundation, 2010 to present
- Member, Committee on Law Corporations, Law Society of Newfoundland
LANGUAGE(S)
English
LEXPERT RATINGS
Construction Law
Corporate / Commercial
MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATINGS
BV
EXTERNAL RATINGS
- Best Lawyers' 2012 St. John's Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year
- Best Lawyers: Construction Law, 2011-2012
- Best Lawyers: Corporate Law, 2006, 2008-2012
- Best Lawyers: Natural Resources Law, 2011-2012
- Lexpert Magazine’s “Top 40 Lawyers Under 40” in Canada, 2004