Date: May 25, 2016
Hilary Fender
hfender@casselsbrock.com
t: 416 860 6476
f: 647 259 7967
Toronto
Suite 2100, Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West
Toronto, ON
Canada
M5H 3C2
Hilary Fender is an associate practising in the Financial Services and the Restructuring and Insolvency
Groups. Prior to joining Cassels Brock as an associate, she was both a summer and articling student at the
firm. During her articles, she gained valuable corporate and advocacy experience with the Financial Services,
Securities and Advocacy Groups. She assisted with a number of corporate transactions including international
financings, mergers and acquisitions and cross-border insolvencies and restructurings.
Hilary received her J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2014 where she was a recipient of the Legal and
Literary Society Award for contribution to student life. As a student she worked as a research assistant to
Associate Dean Trevor Farrow and Professor Allan Hutchinson, and was a member of the Wilson Moot Team.
Hilary was also a producer and choreographer for Osgoode Hall’s Mock Trial, an annual musical sketch
comedy show performed by Osgoode students and faculty. In the fall of 2013, she spent a term studying
abroad at the University of Copenhagen where she studied EU competition and intellectual property law.
Prior to studying law, Hilary graduated on the Dean’s List from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Physical
Health and Education and a Bachelor of Sciences, majoring in Life Sciences.
Call to the bar
Ontario, 2015
Associations
Ontario Bar Association (OBA)
Expertise
Financial Services
Restructuring & Insolvency