Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has appointed Patrice Walch-Watson as its senior managing director and general counsel and corporate secretary, and a member of the senior management team, effective June 5, 2015.
She spent more than 22 years at Torys LLP, one of Canada’s top international business law firms, where she was most recently a partner.
“Her broad experience includes leading roles in advising some of Canada’s largest public, private and government businesses on a wide array of transactions, particularly in cross-border matters,” says a CPPIB statement. “She has focused her corporate and securities practice primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, public and private corporate finance, privatizations and corporate governance.”
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