Bio

Kim Harle practice includes a broad range of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, pension fund investment, and other transactional work. She has advised Canadian and multinational deal sponsors in many sectors, including technology, energy, chemical, retail, publishing, financial services, consumer products, pulp and paper, and real estate. Kim has significant experience providing advice on private equity investments by institutional investors and on investment funds generally. She regularly advises pension funds and other investor clients on their private equity, infrastructure, hedge fund, real estate and other investments, both in Canada and abroad. In addition to her transactional work, Kim provides practical ongoing general corporate and commercial advice to her clients. Kim worked as in-house legal counsel with a publicly traded equipment financing company for a year and a half, gaining valuable experience practising law in an in-house environment. Kim was a member of the Blakes Executive Committee for 6 years.