About ITLNCA NetworkS

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Employment and Labour Lawyer, Antonio F. Urdaneta is a marathon runner who improves the work climate and empowers business leaders to reduce the inherent threats of workplace relations by providing innovative training, advisory, investigations, and litigation services. Antonio uses coaching tools and skills to inform, advice and represent workplaces in their virtual and physical challenges, including business transformation and managing toxic leadership. 

Jasmine is Legal Counsel for BMO Financial Group. She is a derivatives lawyer based in Toronto. Jasmine has experience with a broad range of capital markets transactions, with a particular focus on OTC derivatives, repos, and securities lending transactions and advising on collateral, set-off, netting and derivatives enforceability.

Jasmine holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from York University and a Juris Doctor from Bond University. After being called to the bar, she commenced her legal career as corporate counsel for George Weston Limited. Jasmine is an advocate for advancement of equity, justice and opportunity for women and racialized lawyers in the Canadian legal community.

Yonida is a Business and Intellectual Property Lawyer at Oziel Law, a boutique technology law firm in Toronto. She works closely with innovative start-ups at all stages of their business from their inception up to an M&A or go-public transaction. Yonida regularly represents foreign companies in establishing a presence in Canada to access the North American markets with work that includes setting up and structuring subsidiaries, IP transfer and brand protection, and corporate finance. She assists corporations throughout their lifecycle with strategy, as well as the preparation and negotiation of various corporate, technology and IP, privacy, financing, and employment contracts.

Prior to her legal career in Ontario, Yonida practiced law in Athens, Greece. She holds LLB and LLM degrees from Democritus University of Thrace, and more recently an LLM in Business and IP Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

Michael is the Program Lawyer, Professional Graduate & International Programs at Osgoode Professional Development.  In this role he develops degree programs, graduate courses, and non-degree education options for lawyers and law students.  He is also the academic and career counsellor to all OsgoodePD students.  Michael holds an Honours B.Sc (Hons) in Psychology, an LL.B. from the University of Leicester, and an LL.M from the University of Toronto with a focus on human rights.  He completed the NCA process in 2013 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2015.  Michael is a passionate advocate for diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives

Rachel Sachs is a lawyer in North York who focusses her practice on older adult clients in elder law, estates, corporate and civil litigation. Rachel also works as Of Counsel on select litigation matters with Marshall Law Group in Caledonia and on the Pro Bono Ontario Hotline advising low-income clients in civil litigation, housing, consumer protection and powers of attorney matters. 

In addition to her role with ITLNCA Networks, Rachel is the President of the Filipino Canadian Lawyers Network, Co-Lead of Communications and Outreach with RODA, a board member of a local daycare and a Past Chair of the OBA Women Lawyers Forum. 

Called to the Ontario bar in 2017 after completing the Law Practice Program, Rachel also holds her Executive MBA degree from Quantic School of Technology in DC, her Masters of Science from the University of Edinburgh Business School in Scotland, her law degree from Sheffield Hallam University in England, and bachelors degree in law from Carleton University in Ottawa.