Carle Jane Evans-Blixen

Experience

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  ALDO Group

  Feb 2008 - Apr 2010

  Senior Financial Planner and Price Analyst

  Developed department-level plans of key financial indicators for three of Aldo’s divisional yearly budgets totalling $50 million.Analyzed, forecasted, and presented monthly, seasonal, and annual sales and markdowns by department to Aldo’s senior management.

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  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)

  May 2012 - Dec 2015

  Articling Student, Law Student

  Conducted due diligence on mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, restructurings, and other commercial transactions.Performed legal research and drafted motions, argumentation plans, examinations, and opinions for litigation files. Drafted agreements and executive summaries for BLG's corporate clients in the technology, health, financial services, insurance, and leisure industries.

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  ADVANT Altana

  Sept 2013 - Dec 2013

  Legal Intern

  Conducted UK and American legal research. Drafted memoranda on mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property law.

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  DT Group

  Feb 2014 - Jul 2014

  Legal, Risk and Compliance Intern

  Implemented the legal function’s cross-Nordic product integrity strategy to improve the Sourcing department's supplier risk analyses and processes.Drafted corporate governance documents in accordance with Global 500 parent company policies.Built reports and dashboards to analyze, report, and present stakeholder data associated with business processes, recalls, and supplier risk.Executed quantitative ad-hoc analyses that translated data into actionable insights for Legal, Sourcing, and executive management. Show less

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  Manulife

  Jan 2016 - Mar 2018

  Legal Counsel

  Advised business clients in structuring, drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements. Handled cloud computing, privacy, and other regulatory matters for the Canadian Division.Managed a wide variety of operational legal matters, including day to day legal inquiries from all levels of the organization including underwriting, investigations, investments, ombuds office, claims, compliance, and customer relations.Advised business unit clients on the resolution of disputes and litigation.Researched and provided legal opinions on commercial, corporate, and insurance issues.Drafted indemnity agreements, services agreements, outsourcing arrangements, continuous disclosure documents, correspondence with regulators, policies, board materials, and company communications pieces.Provided legal advice and direction on strategic projects at Manulife Investments.Monitored proposed and existing legislation and other changes in the legal and regulatory environment pertinent to BU operations. Show less

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  BCF

  Apr 2018 - Dec 2021

  Litigation Associate

  Handled corporate commercial litigation files.Defended clients in securities, anti-competition, product liability, and State-implicated class actions.

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  McGill University – Faculty of Law

  Sept 2018 - Dec 2019

  Co-Lecturer

  Co-lecturer in Justice Shaun Finn’s Commercial Litigation (Fall 2019) and Securities Litigation (Fall 2018) courses. Fall 2019: Commercial LitigationWhat commercial litigation cases have had the most significant impact on society and the law? This practical, hands-on course looks at the big Québec and Canadian commercial law decisions that have helped to shape the business world. In addition to analysing and discussing this jurisprudence in class, students will be asked to prepare a preliminary opinion for a client, as well as draft and present oral arguments on an aspect of a major commercial case. Special guests – including practitioners, in-house counsel, and a sitting judge – will also be invited to discuss commercial litigation, as well as legal and oral advocacy.Fall 2018: Securities LitigationOne of the emerging fields in the area of complex commercial litigation is that of securities, particularly cases involving alleged failures to disclose material information. Corporations that were once the darlings of Wall Street and Bay Street have seen their market capitalization drop, their brands tarnished, and their investor relations compromised by allegations of improper reporting and/or misrepresentation. Moreover, the existing statutory regimes provide recourses, legal presumptions, and remedies that facilitate large-scale – at times existential – lawsuits on the part of aggrieved investors.This course provided a trans-systemic, comparative overview of the evolution of securities litigation in Québec and common law Canada by analysing the applicable statutory, common law, and civil law regimes, as well as some of the landmark decisions rendered by Canadian courts. This course is also aimed at introducing students to securities advocacy. Show less

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  Government of Canada

  Jul 2021 - Jul 2023

  Judicial Advisory Committee Member

  Federal judicial advisory committee (JAC)https://www.fja.gc.ca

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  BMO Wealth Management - Canada

  Jun 2022 - Jun 2023

  Senior Counsel, Litigation