Kyle is an Associate Director of Osler Works – Transactional, a service that uses cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes and skilled legal professionals to support our deal teams and clients largely in the context of transactions. He oversees a team of lawyers and paralegals in connection with negotiating and closing financing transactions.
Kyle has over 10 years of experience advising clients in the financial services industry. He worked as a corporate and financial services associate with CMS in Edinburgh, which included secondments to a professional regulatory body in Brussels, focusing on European Union law, and to Standard Life, assisting with a corporate acquisition. Most recently, prior to returning to private practice with Osler, Kyle was at HSBC Bank Canada supporting commercial lending transactions and served as in-house counsel to Royal Bank of Canada advising its wealth management business.
Representative Work
Prior to joining Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
- Advised a Canadian financial institution’s foreign branches on the cross-border offering of products and services to accredited investors in Canada and represented them in filings to Provincial securities regulators
- Represented a Canadian bank on its proposed acquisition of a UK private banking business
- Represented a global financial institution in its acquisition of an investment platform for advisers from a French multi-national company
- Acted for a global asset manager in its acquisition of a UK broker-dealer business
- Represented a large UK charity’s interest in a successful multi-million pound share issue
- Represented a UK bank in the successful sale of its interests in a private equity fund to a family office in China
Community Involvement
- The Participation House Project (Durham Region), Director
- Pro Bono Ontario, Legal Counsel
- Supervising Lawyer and Clinic Student, Edinburgh Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC)
- Alzheimer Scotland, 3×3 Challenge Participant, 2013
- Action for Children UK, Three Peaks Challenge Participant, 2011
Credentials
Languages
- English
Professional Affiliations
- Canadian Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association
- Law Society of Ontario
- Law Society of Scotland (non-practising)
