Jennifer E. Babe, Partner, Miller Thomson LLP
Jennifer Babe is a partner at Miller Thomson LLP where she practices corporate and commercial law. Ms. Babe was admitted to the Bar of Ontario in 1982 and has been practicing corporate and commercial law since then. Ms. Babe lectures and writes regularly for the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association, the Law Society of Upper Canada and Osgoode Hall. She is the author of Sale of a Business, now in its 7th edition, and co-author of Creditors' Remedies in Ontario, now in its 2nd edition.
Ms. Babe received the Ontario Bar Association's Distinguished Service Award in 2008, is a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, and is named in Lexpert's Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada for 2008 and again for 2009. She is an active member of her community. She volunteers for the YMCA and the United Way of the Greater Toronto Area. Ms. Babe is currently on the board of directors of the YMCA of GTA and has served as a director on the board of GO Transit for three years prior to its merger with Metrolinx.
Ms. Babe was born in Thunder Bay and received her LL.M. from the London School of Economics (1980), LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (1979) and Honours B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto (1976).