Rachel Macklin

Rachel Macklin is a Senior Associate in Dentons' Corporate group in Edmonton and a member of the Privacy and Cybersecurity group. Her practice focuses on Corporate Law, including general corporate commercial matters.

Her practice includes share and asset transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and matters of corporate governance. She also has experience in preparing terms of use, privacy policies, reporting breaches of security safeguards to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada and providing opinions on a variety of privacy matters, including compliance with provincial and federal privacy legislation.

Rachel was seconded to the legal department of a large utility company in Edmonton, where she worked on procurement law matters and supported the privacy office with various matters, including responding to security breaches.

Her experience includes advising Universal Rail Systems Inc. in connection with its sales process by way of plan of arrangement, by which it was acquired by American Track Services LLC; advising the Mikisew Group of Companies with respect to the purchase by Mikisew-Impact Limited Partnership of all of the shares of SmogBuster Inc.; and advising Dynamic Risk Assessment Systems Inc. in its sale to Eddyfi NDT Inc.

She holds a JD from the University of Ottawa and a BA from Western University. She is recognised by The Best Lawyers in Canada – Ones to Watch for Corporate Law, and is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association.