James M. Dickson
COUNSEL
Corporate Affairs
STEWART MCKELVEY
Canada
Biography
AN INNOVATIVE THINKER. Jim has acted for many of Nova Scotia’s greatest entrepreneur success stories and advised some of Atlantic Canada’s largest and most successful businesses. His clients come to him for his wealth of knowledge and experience, which he uses to design innovative business structures and transactions. Jim is able to do this by spending time with business owners, operators and family members in order to understand their vision, goals and concerns. REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS As a leading corporate finance professional, Jim has over 20 years experience advising clients from both a legal and financial perspective. His clients include families, small privately-held businesses, large public and private companies, entertainment and media providers, manufacturers, food service producers, energy firms and Canada's second largest national food retailer. Some of the ways Jim has helped his clients are: Providing legal services to large commercial clients on mergers, acquisitions, financings and public securities offerings and compliance. Providing legal services to some of Canada’s largest chartered banks with respect to local, regional and international loan securitizations, environmental matters and due diligence projects. Jim is also a registered trademark agent. AREAS OF PRACTICE Corporate/Commercial Securities/Corporate Finance Mergers and Acquisitions Energy and Natural Resources Financial Services Environmental Technology and Intellectual Property Trademark
Research Interest
Corporate/Commercial Securities/Corporate Finance Mergers and Acquisitions Energy and Natural Resources Financial Services Environmental Technology and Intellectual Property Trademark