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Katherine M. Stanger

Senior Associate

Toronto
[email protected]
416.367.7294

Expertise

Lana Deluca

Practice Assistant

Toronto
[email protected]
416.367.6749
416.367.6341

Katherine's practice focuses on advising on complex commercial contracting matters, including software, software-as-a-service and other information technology agreements, master services agreements and virtual power purchasing agreements.

Katherine has experience advising clients in connection with:

  • privacy and data protection law compliance, including with respect to transactions, cloud computing/outsourcing arrangements, information technology and data breach management
  • outsourcing arrangements and other commercial agreements, including complex information technology agreements
  • mergers and acquisitions
  • Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL) compliance
  • advertising, marketing and sponsorship

Katherine has authored and contributed to various publications regarding privacy, cybersecurity and technology law matters.

Experience

  • Aimia Loyalty Solutions in its merger with Kognitiv Corporation to form a technology-forward loyalty solutions provider.
  • IFS in its acquisition of Clevest Solutions Inc., a provider of mobile workforce management and advanced network deployment solutions in the utilities vertical.
  • Advises clients on compliance with privacy and data protection laws, including in the transactional, cloud computing, outsourcing, information technology and electronic marketing contexts.
  • Assists clients with preparing privacy policies and related documents, including online privacy policies, data breach response procedures and other internal organizational policies and procedures.
  • Advises clients on complex commercial agreements, including the negotiation and drafting of a master services agreement for information technology services on behalf of a national credit union and a provincial utilities organization.
  • Advises domestic and international clients on data breaches involving several Canadian jurisdictions, including for an international technology company, an international hotel chain and a global company in the context of a global privacy breach.
  • Advises and assists share and asset sale transactions as counsel for vendors and purchasers, including a Fortune 100 technology company in multiple acquisitions of intellectual property assets.
  • Advises clients on a wide range of general corporate matters.
  • Assisted in the closing for the Edmonton Valley Line P3 transaction.
  • Assisted with BC Hydro Site C procurement matters.

Beyond Our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Member, Law Society of British Columbia
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals
  • Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Guest Lecturer (2018 – present)

Community Involvement

  • Member of the Board of Directors, Vancouver International Marathon Society

Awards & Recognitions

  • Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2024) of The Best Lawyers in Canada® as “Ones to Watch” (Corporate Law)

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 2022
  • British Columbia, 2016
  • JD, University of Toronto, 2015
  • BPHE (With High Honours), University of Toronto, 2012