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Venetia E.K. Whiting

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Venetia Whiting is an environmental lawyer with experience across a range of sectors, including chemicals, transportation, manufacturing, energy and natural resources, real estate and agribusiness and food.

Venetia provides advice to clients on a full range of environmental issues, including issues relating to defending environmental prosecutions and class actions, contaminated property, responding to spills and environmental incidents, director and officer liability, waste management, and sewage and drinking water.

Over the course of her career, Venetia has developed expertise in guiding clients through compliance with complex regulatory issues, including the transportation of dangerous goods, the export and import of substances and products, and pest control products.

Venetia helps clients prepare for inspections and investigations by regulatory authorities, as well as civil and administrative proceedings (including orders) relating to environmental liability.

In the transactional context, Venetia acts for a range of parties, including buyers, sellers, lenders, investors and underwriters, assessing due diligence and environmental liability, and negotiating and drafting agreements.

Venetia advises corporations with respect to the development of ESG policies and practices, including the identification and management of ESG risks and opportunities.

Venetia is proud to be the Vice-Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section Executive. Prior to joining Bennett Jones in Toronto, Venetia summered, articled and practiced in the firm’s Regulatory Group in Calgary.

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Brock University, BA, 2010, with First Class Honours Brock University, MA, 2011, Distinguished Graduate Student McGill University, BCL , 2014, Dean's Honour List  McGill University, JD, 2014, Dean's Honour List

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Alberta, 2015 Ontario, 2016

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Champion Petfoods, maker of ORIJEN and ACANA, in its sale to an affiliate of Mars, Incorporated
Teknaform Inc., a manufacturer of PVC edgebanding products, in its sale to a portfolio company of Incline Equity Partners, a Pittsburgh-based private equity fund
Stone Canyon Industries Holdings LLC and Kissner Group Holdings, as Canadian counsel, in their US$3.2-billion agreement to acquire K+S Aktiengesellschaft's North and South American salt business, including Morton Salt and Windsor Salt
Assisting corporations and Boards of Directors concerning environmental and regulatory compliance issues and prosecutions in issues such as pipeline releases, tailings pond containment failures, and ozone depleting substances
Acting for owners, previous owners and neighbours in contaminated sites
Assisting manufacturers of pesticides with amendments, re-evaluations, discontinuations and cancellations of products under the federal Pest Control Products Act and provincial statutes
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, with the $3.3-billion acquisition of Heritage Royalty Limited Partnership, a former subsidiary of Cenovus Energy Inc. holding a broad portfolio of oil and gas royalty properties in Western Canada. Assessing potential risks associated with royalty properties in several provincial jurisdictions

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