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Jody S. Langhan
"I practise law with a simple but important mission statement: to provide my clients with clear, practical legal advice in a cost-effective, timely manner. I strive to identify solutions, to clarify, and to find the pathways to my clients’ success."
Call to Bar
- Admitted to the Manitoba Bar in 1998
Areas of Focus
Jody is a partner of Fillmore Riley LLP, practising in the areas of corporate and commercial law, with special emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, banking and financing, First Nations law, securities law, and technology and intellectual property matters. He is the Chair of Fillmore Riley's Commercial Law Department, as well as a member of the firm's Management Committee.
Jody has published articles in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law Review and for the Law Society of Manitoba, and is a frequent lecturer on corporate and commercial law issues. He is also a member of the Major Donors Cabinet of the United Way of Winnipeg.
Representative Clients / Cases / Transactions
- Member of the legal team that represented the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in its negotiations with Manitoba Hydro to create the Wuskwatim Power Limited Partnership to develop a 223 mega-watt hydro-electric generating station in northern Manitoba with a development cost in excess of $1.5 Billion
- Lead counsel for Richardson International Limited in its $300 million acquisition of grain elevators and crop input facilities from Viterra (formerly, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool), and related negotiation of $475 million credit facilities with a syndicate of lenders led by CIBC
- Lead counsel for Richardson International Limited in a 2009 private placement of $103 million in debentures to US and Canadian insurance companies
- Lead counsel for Assiniboine Credit Union in its amalgamation with Vantis Credit Union, Astra Credit Union and, later, Buffalo Credit Union, to form one of Canada’s top ten largest credit unions
- Lead counsel advising the merger committee formed to evaluate and implement the merger of the Province of Manitoba’s four remaining Caisse Populaires, which, on completion, will create a Caisse Populaire with 27 branches and over $800 million in aggregate assets
- Lead counsel for a syndicate of seven lenders led by Royal Bank of Canada in its negotiation of complex credit facilities with Hytek Ltd., a major integrated pork production company
- Lead counsel for the eight First Nations comprising the Swampy Cree Tribal Council in the development of the Aseneskak Casino, Manitoba’s first First Nation-owned casino, and co-counsel to Royal Bank of Canada in financing the only other Manitoba First Nation-owned casino, the South Beach Casino
- Lead counsel for Western Financial Group in its acquisition of 49% of Hayhurst Elias Dudek Inc.
- Lead counsel for Frantic Films Corporation in its private placement to Priveq Capital Funds and the eventual sale of the visual effects division of Frantic Films Corporation to a publicly traded company based in Mumbai, India
- Independent counsel to The University of Winnipeg Trusteed Pension Plan
- Counsel and engagement partner for some of Manitoba’s largest companies, including TransX Ltd. (one of Canada’s largest privately held trucking and transportation companies and a Top 50 Best Managed Company), Richardson International (Canada’s largest privately held grain and agri-business company), Assiniboine Credit Union Limited (one of the 10 largest credit unions in Canada) and The Dufresne Group (one of Western Canada’s largest independent retailers and a Top 50 Best Managed Company)
Education
- University of Manitoba, Bachelor of Commerce (Honours, with distinction), 1992
- University of Toronto, Bachelor of Laws (Honours), 1996
- Registered Trade-Mark Agent, 2008
Professional Activities
- Member, Management Committee, Fillmore Riley LLP
- Chair, Commercial Law Department, Fillmore Riley LLP
- Former Instructor, Corporations II (Advanced Business Law), University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law
- Law Clerk to the Honourable Chief Justice J.A. Isaac, Federal Court of Canada, 1996-1997
- Lecturer, Solicitors' Transactions (University of Manitoba - Faculty of Law, 1999-2002)
- Lecturer, Corporate Compliance (Corporate Counsel Sub-Section of the Canadian Bar Association)
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Manitoba Bar Association
Volunteer Activities
- Major Donors Cabinet, United Way of Winnipeg
- Member, The Associates
Practice Groups
Publications / Presentations
- Co-Author, Professional Corporations (Law Society of Manitoba, 2000)
- Author, Wealth Effects and Agency Conflict in Division Management Buyouts (University of Toronto Faculty Law Review, 1996)
- Presenter, A Legal and Business Guide to Gaming (Canadian Institute Conference)
- Co-Presenter, The Evolution of Conduct and Management Authority in Gaming (Canadian Association of Gaming Regulators Conference, 2007)
- Co-Presenter, Privacy Law in the Purchase and Sale of a Business (Manitoba Bar Association Mid-Winter Meetings, 2004)