Nathalie Gagnon

Expertise

Business, Commercial and Corporate Law

• Corporate Finance
• Employee Incentive Plans
• Equity Financing
• Management Buyout
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Venture Capital Financing

Strategic Teams

• Business Transfers
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Venture Capital

Professional background

Nathalie Gagnon has a keen ear for her clients’ needs, allowing her to identify a transaction’s main challenges. She brings an extraordinary amount of energy to every one of her files.

Over the past 12 years, Ms. Gagnon has represented various businesses and their executives in connection with the negotiation and conclusion of purchases and sales of SMBs. She has also assisted businesses and financial institutions in connection with corporate financing and strategic investments, developing particular expertise in leveraged buy-outs. Her proactive approach allows each of Ms. Gagnon’s clients to feel that they are her top priority, regardless of the nature of the transaction, the size of the business or its industrial sector.

Ms. Gagnon has a special interest in transactions set up to ensure the successful transition of ownership of a business, whether through employee incentives or management buy-outs. Working with her clients, she measures the financial, strategic and emotional impacts of their decisions. The co-leader of BCF’s business transfers team, she plays an active role in the debate surrounding succession planning in Quebec by giving talks on the subject and through her involvement in several initiatives related to the subject.

Over the years, Ms. Gagnon has taken a deeper interest in business practices and, accordingly, in shareholders’ agreements, which can prevent disputes. She therefore works with entrepreneurs and investors in negotiating and drafting such agreements.

Publications

• "Fusions et acquisitions : l'art de négocier une clause d'ajustement de prix," (with André Morrissette), Les Affaires, 2007.
• "Fidéliser efficacement le capital humain pour réussir son transfert d'entreprise," Les Affaires, May 2007.

Involvement

• Co-founder and member of the organizing committee for the Les médaillés de la relève contest.

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Quebec Youth Foundation.

• President of the organizing committee for the Bal de la St-Valentin 2010 (Quebec Youth Foundation).

Conferences

• "Les particularités d'une acquisition par les cadres," (with Geneviève Vigneault) as part of the Colloque sur l'acquisition d'une entreprise par ses cadres held on September 17, 2008.

• "Les secrets du succès : aspects juridiques," (with Geneviève Vigneault) as part of the Colloque sur l'intéressement des employés dans un contexte de relève held on September 12, 2007.

• From 2003 to 2007, she taught the "Incorporation des entreprises" course with her colleague Natasha Girouard as part of the corporate tax training of the Association de planification fiscale et financière.

Representative work

• Sale of StreamtheWorld, the largest live streaming delivery provider, May 2010. (2010)
• Sale of Vimedix, a Montreal company specialized in the design of echocardiograph simulators, to CAE Healthcare, January 2010. (2010)
• Merger of Secor and RPO Management Consultants, September 2009. (2009)

Publications

• Nouvelles > BCF gets involved at Bal de la St-Valentin February 10th, 2012