Jacqueline (Jack)
Goslett
Partner
Jack provides clear, actionable guidance to her financial services clients, both lenders and borrowers. By drawing on her business background, Jack offers her clients pragmatic advice on how to best structure commercial loan transactions and how to evaluate and understand the associated legal and business risks. She builds relationships with her clients by being attentive, highly responsive and by providing candid advice. Jack acts as counsel for several domestic and foreign banks, venture capital/private equity funds and other institutional investors. She also acts for borrowers on a regular basis across a variety of industries.
As Co-Leader of the firm’s Financial Services, Banking & Finance and Venture Finance Groups, Jack’s practice focuses on banking and corporate/commercial law, with an emphasis on domestic and cross-border lending transactions, including syndicated credit facilities, senior and subordinated/mezzanine financings, asset-based lending and venture capital/private equity investments. She also has experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, share/asset purchase and sale transactions and corporate reorganizations.
Jack is a member of the Aird & Berlis Women’s Initiative and Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
Professional Involvement
Professional Activities
- Jack was a summer student and an articling student at the firm prior to returning as an associate.
- Before attending law school, Jack worked at one of Canada’s leading technology companies as a specialist in the areas of global mobility and new business development.
Memberships
- Independent Director, Young Women in Law
- Women in Capital Markets
- Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA)
- Turnaround Management Association
Co-Author, "Pick of the Patch: Sage Advice About Super Priorities for Fresh Produce Suppliers," Aird & Berlis LLP, Financial Perspectives, May 30, 2025.
Author, "Interest Rates: Why It Is in Everyone’s Interest to Pay Close Attention," Aird & Berlis LLP, Collateral Matters, April 2017.
Author, "An Analysis of the Advantages and Significant Drawbacks of Acting as a Lawyer-Director – the Dawn of a New Era?" Volume III, No. 1, Corporate Governance, Federated Press, 2010.
Co-Author, "Defamation in the Municipal Context," Presented at the Six-Minute Municipal Lawyer Conference (2011).
Co-Author, "The Canadian Case of R. v. Patrick: Are Your Privacy Rights Out With the Garbage?" Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, February 2009.