Carol Lyons is a partner and co-chair of McMillan’s Financial Services Regulatory Group. She practices corporate and commercial law with an emphasis is on transactional work. She advises clients on establishing businesses in Canada, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, formation of strategic alliances (including divestment/outsourcing of business functions) and contract procurement, including requests for proposals (RFPs).
Carol specializes in working with clients in the insurance, banking, health care and other regulated industries. Her practice includes assisting insurers and reinsurers with the regulatory approval process in the context of transactions and other corporate changes as well as advising on regulatory compliance generally. She also advises on corporate governance and pension law matters.
In 1993 Carol was seconded to IBM Canada Ltd. for one year as legal advisor to IBM Business Development.
Carol Lyons acted as corporate secretary for two property and casualty insurance companies from 1989 to 1994 and is currently chair and sits on various committees of a leading Canadian reinsurance company that is a subsidiary of a multi-national reinsurance group. She is also an advisory board and audit committee member of an Ontario insurance reciprocal. Carol is a past board member of Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario and participates in other charitable boards.
• Called to the Ontario bar – 1989
• University of Toronto, JD – 1987
• University of Toronto, BA – 1984
Carol earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1984. She graduated from the University of Toronto Law School in 1987 and was called to the Ontario bar in 1989.
Carol speaks and publishes widely on insurance and banking regulatory matters and corporate governance.
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