
Language(s) spoken: English
Bar Admission(s): Newfoundland and Labrador, 2010; Ontario, 2004
Legal Assistant(s): Kelsey Howlett
Tauna is a corporate commercial lawyer who provides advice on a range of transactional and day-to-day business matters. Tauna assists her clients in negotiating and closing mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, financings and reorganizations. She provides strategic advice to corporations, directors and shareholders related to corporate governance matters and regularly advises on contract interpretation and compliance matters. She acts for clients who are going public (including via traditional IPOs, CPCs and RTOs of listed entities) and closes broker and non-brokered private placements and public offerings for her clients. In the natural resources space, Tauna’s experience has been principally in the areas of mining and oil and gas (offshore), including transactional and contractual matters and knowledge of all facets of provincial mining legislation. Tauna’s clients include a range of public companies, owner-managed businesses, municipalities, engineering and other professional services firms.
Selected representative engagements, include:
Mergers & acquisitions:
Corporate governance:
Securities:
Natural resources:
Financing:
Institute of Corporate Directors, ICD.D, September, 2023
ICD-Rotman, Directors Education Program, May, 2023
Osgoode Hall Law School, Certificate in Mining Law, 2012
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, LLB, 2003 (top 2% of class)
University of Lethbridge, BMgt, 2000 (gold medalist)
Member, Partnership Board, Stewart McKelvey 2024 – Present
Managing Partner – St. John’s, 2021 – 2023
Vice-Chair of the Executive of the Newfoundland and Labrador Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors (NL ICD), 2024 – present
Executive member, NL ICD, 2020 – present
Director, The Rooms Corporation, 2021 – present
Director, Business and Arts (NL), 2024 – present
Chair, Stewart McKelvey Newfoundland and Labrador, Corporate Practice Group, 2015 – 2020
Director, The Tuckamore Festival, Inc., 2013 – 2020
Advisor, Interim Board of Music NL, 2019 – 2021
Resource member/director, Community Centre Alliance, 2010 – 2018
Member, Canadian Bar Association
Member, The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law
Member, Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA), 2023
Best Lawyers: Mining Law, 2023 – 2025
Best Lawyers: Corporate Law, 2023 – 2025
Best Lawyers: Securities Law, 2023 – 2025
King’s Counsel, 2022
Lexpert rating: Mining, 2021 – 2024
Lexpert rating: Corporate Finance & Securities, 2019 – 2024