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Melissa Cook, Partner | Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions

Melissa Cook

Partner Fasken
Jurisdiction Yukon, 2017 | Northwest Territories, 2014 | Nunavut, 2014 | Alberta, 2008
Language(s) English
Office(s) Calgary
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Overview

Melissa’s practice is focused on securities and capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate governance. Businesses and investors rely on Melissa’s strategic advice while negotiating and executing complex transactions and navigating commercial relationships.

Clients value Melissa’s extensive knowledge and experience advising on complex and multi-jurisdictional transactions, including debt and equity financings, take-over bids, plans of arrangement, amalgamations, going-public and going-private transactions, private equity transactions and strategic investments. She provides advice across a broad range of industries on public disclosure, stock exchange requirements and securities regulatory matters, as well as corporate structuring and governance. Melissa’s securities practice extends to delivering local counsel opinions in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon and acting as local counsel in those jurisdictions.

Melissa frequently advises on business succession planning. With proactive advice for owner-operators, management teams and entrepreneurs, Melissa focuses on clarity and maintaining stakeholder relationships as businesses navigate successful transitions in management or ownership.

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Career & Education

Education

  • LLB University of Calgary
  • MBA Simon Fraser University
  • BA (with Distinction) University of Calgary
  • B Comm University of Calgary

Community involvement

  • Director Alberta Ballet 2023 to present
  • Past Chair Lougheed House Conservation Society 2021 to 2022
  • Vice-Chair Lougheed House Conservation Society 2016 to 2021

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Member Law Society of Northwest Territories
  • Member Law Society of Alberta
  • Member Law Society of Nunavut
  • Member Law Society of Yukon
  • Member Calgary Bar Association
  • Member Canadian Bar Association
  • Member Association of Women Lawyers

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