Jason R. Sernoskie

Jason (Jay) Sernoskie is an associate in the Business Law Group, where his practice focuses primarily on corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions, debt financings and private equity transactions. He has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and closing a wide variety of mergers and acquisitions transactions and practices all aspects of commercial law with a particular emphasis on company acquisitions and dispositions, private equity transactions, project financings, joint ventures and corporate reorganization. Jay’s experience includes drafting shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, services agreements, distribution agreements and other corporate and commercial agreements.

Jay’s mining experience includes drafting commercial agreements, including option agreements, off-take agreements, joint venture agreements, utility supply agreements and mining services agreements.

Jay’s work within the Private Equity Group includes financing transactions relating to emerging growth companies, several of which are focused on information technology development or clean technologies. 

A few of Jay’s notable projects include:

• Assisting Goldcorp Inc. in connection with its divesture of the Escobal Project to Tahoe Resources Inc. and its divesture of the San Dimas Mine to Primero Gold Inc.
• Assisting Lake Shore Gold in connection with its acquisition of certain mining properties from Barrick Gold
• Assisting 0831740 B.C. Ltd. a Subsidiary of Sprott Power Corp. in connection with the sale of its indirect partnership interests in a number of Hydro Development Projects in British Columbia
• Assisting a leading electricity company in the negotiation of a power purchase agreement for renewable energy
• Assisting a leading-edge clean technology fund in the formation of the fund and the structuring of its initial investments in three start-up clean technology companies
• Assisting a TSXV company in the acquisition of a solar power company based in Germany
• Assisting a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology companies in the formation of its new fund and the negotiation of its investments in underlying investee companies
• Assisting a Canadian energy company in structuring its carbon offset marketing and sales strategy
• Assisting Starlim North America Corporation in its purchase of Poly-Nova Technologies Inc.
• Assisting Worldlynx Wireless LP in their purchase of certain retail store locations

Significant Clients Advised (current and historical) (inter alia) – Goldcorp Inc. and Goldcorp Canada Ltd., Barrick Gold Corporation, Kinross Gold Corporation, Lakeshore Gold Corporation, Sprott Power Corp., Extreme Venture Partners LP, BPS Resolver Inc., Summitt Energy Management Inc., WireIE Holdings International Inc., Worldlynx Wireless LP and Yamana Gold Inc.  

Community Involvement
Co-chair, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Ride for Diabetes Research Law Firm Challenge

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