Sara Josselyn
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.Partner at Gowling WLG
- Called to the bar
- 2008
- Languages
- English
Business & Corporate LawBusiness & Corporate LawAbout Sara Josselyn
Sara Josselyn is a partner in Gowling WLG's Toronto office, where Josselyn heads the firm's Canadian transactional risk practice within the Corporate Law Group. Most of the work sits where private M&A meets transactional risk insurance.
Clients have ranged from startups to international companies, both private and public, and Josselyn advises regularly on insured deals. Insurers come to the practice too, with the underwriting work covering hundreds of deals.
Josselyn writes and speaks often on M&A and transactional risk. Recent articles have tackled privacy compliance in acquisitions, cybersecurity due diligence and hidden vacation pay liabilities, and talks include sessions at Law Society of Ontario business law programs and a panel at the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium.
Called to the bar in Nova Scotia in 2008 and in Ontario in 2011, Josselyn took a year away from practice early on as the recipient of a CIHR Training Fellowship in Health Law & Policy, looking at the legal, ethical and policy questions raised by fast change in health care. Josselyn also once taught health care law to master's students in Dalhousie University's Department of Health Administration.
Practice areas
Private M&A
Private equity funds, strategic buyers and sellers turn to Josselyn on private mergers and acquisitions, whether the deal is domestic, international or cross-border.
Representations and warranties insurance
As underwriting counsel, Josselyn works with global insurers as they issue representations and warranties insurance policies on M&A transactions.
Education & credentials
- LL.M, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University (2007)
- LL.B, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University (2006)
- B.A. (Hons.), Trinity College, University of Toronto (2002)
- Canadian Securities Course, Canadian Securities Institute (2000)
- Called to the bar of Nova Scotia (2008)
- Called to the bar of Ontario (2011)
Publications & speaking
- M&A Meets Privacy Law: A Guide to Compliance and Risk Mitigation, Ontario Bar Association, Business Law Section (2025)
- Vacation Pay on Incentive Compensation: A Hidden Liability in Canadian M&A, Business Law Today (American Bar Association) (2025)
- Transaction Liability Insurance: It's About a lot More than the Money, Canadian Tax Foundation, 2022 Conference Report (co-author) (2023)
- Identifying Privacy and Cyber Risks in M&A Transactions, IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2023 (panelist) (2023)
Memberships & affiliations
- Canadian Bar Association: Josselyn is a member.
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