199 Bay St, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2005 (ON)
Wendy is the Co-Chair of the Blakes Privacy group and the National Privacy Officer for the Firm. She provides practical and strategic privacy advice to clients in a wide range of industries including technology, financial services, insurance, life sciences, education, retail and consumer goods industries. Wendy advises clients on privacy requirements relating to innovative technologies, corporate transactions, outsourcing arrangements, trans-border data flows, and online and offline marketing and advertising activities. She is frequently involved in global privacy compliance projects, providing Canadian privacy law input into global privacy policies, consent frameworks, data protection agreements and internal privacy policies and procedures. Wendy also helps clients manage and respond to data breaches and other privacy-related incidents and investigations.
On February 1, 2019, a company owned by Vertu FX Limited Partnership (“Vertu”), BDC Capital Inc. (“BDC”) and certain members of the Firmex executive management team completed the acquisition of Firmex Holdings Inc.