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Marty Venalainen
Associate
Toronto
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Tel :
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416.865.7141
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Fax :
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416.865.7048
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Professional Experience
Marty is an associate in the Business Law Group. His practice includes advising clients on a broad range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, asset and share sales, public securities offerings, and private placements.
As a student, Marty directed Osgoode's International Legal Partnership, served on the executive of Schulich's Net Impact chapter, and worked as a research assistant and teaching assistant.
Prior to joining McMillan, Marty worked as an information strategist in the federal government and as a political aide in Ontario's Ministry of Children and Youth Services. He has volunteered on business and education projects in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, and Cambodia. In 2010, Marty won a Lexpert Zenith Pro Bono Award of Distinction in the Environmental category for his work with Islands First at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 5th Conference of the Parties to the Convention's Kyoto Protocol.
Awards
- Award of Distinction: Environmental – Lexpert Zenith Pro Bono Awards
- Contributor With the Most Popular Article In Canada from Mondaq for his article "Canadian Implications Of The Waxman-Markey Bill"
- Dean's Gold Key Award, Honourable F. C. Hayes Memorial Award, and the LLB/MBA Students' Association Award, Osgoode Hall Law School
- H. Ian Macdonald Award in Public Administration and;
- Dean's Honour List, Schulich School of Business Dean's Special Award and Dean's Honour List, Queen's University
publications and presentations
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- corporate and capital markets
- emissions trading and climate change
- international trade
- Canadian Bar Association
- Board of Directors and Member, Finance Committee, Oxfam Canada
Called to the Ontario bar
- 2009
Osgoode Hall Law School, JD (including Certificate in International, Comparative, and Transnational Law)
- 2008
York University, Schulich School of Business, MBA
- 2008
Queen's University, Queen's School of Business, B.Comm. (Hons.)
- 2003
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