Enda Wong 

overview

Enda is the Montréal group leader of the firm’s Business Law Group. Her practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, acquisition financing, corporate organizations and structuring and advising clients on a range of commercial matters. Being both a common-law and a civil-law lawyer, called in both Ontario and Quebec, Enda has worked on a variety of transactions involving a regional, national and cross-border scope and has frequently provided advice on the similarities and differences between the two approaches on a variety of commercial matters. She has acted on behalf of private enterprises, institutional and private equity investors and non-profit organizations and has advised on commercial, regulatory and compliance-related issues including in respect of contests filings and product labelling, amongst others. 

Enda joined McMillan in 2008 as a summer student and completed her articles with the firm before being called to the Quebec Bar in December of 2009. Enda was also called to the Ontario Bar in January of 2013. Prior to joining McMillan, she spent a summer working for the legal department at a large international pharmaceutical company.

After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Psychology at McGill University in 2005, Enda earned her BCL and LLB from McGill University in 2008. While in law school, Enda volunteered with the McGill Legal Information Clinic and Pro-Bono Students Canada and spent a semester abroad at the National University of Singapore.

Representative Matters

Recent key mandates and transactions pursuant to which Enda was involved include the following:

• acquisition of group of companies providing for virtual data rooms and platform for secure document sharing
• acquisition of group of companies providing for medical imaging solutions and services
• acquisition of group of companies providing for technological solutions for businesses
• recapitalization and financing of a telecommunications company
• sale of a luxury car dealership
• simultaneous acquisition of three fibre optics and telecommunications companies
• sale of 3D printing company
• acquisition of an IT company commercializing solutions for biotech and pharma companies
• acquisition of a Québec-based chemical products company
• acquisition of a Québec-based insurance company
• sale of a Canadian insurance company
• acquisition of various companies involved in the food industry and in the consumer goods industry
• various asset sales for a petroleum company including the sale of various retail service stations and the marketing, sale and distribution business of the company
• incorporation, organization and general commercial advice to various entities including start-up companies and non-profit and charitable organizations

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Education

• McGill University, BCL/LLB - 2008
• McGill University, BA (Political Sciences, Psychology) - 2005

Year Of Call

• Called to the Ontario bar - 2013
• Called to the Quebec bar - 2009