Rachel Wasserman is the principal of Wasserman Business Law, where she helps Canadian business owners and entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. Rachel is also a fellow at the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, where she writes about the private equity industry and the impacts of consolidating capital.

Rachel is a seasoned corporate lawyer with a diverse background spanning multiple industries. She has worked for two of Canada’s most prestigious law firms, Stikeman Elliott LLP and McCarthy Tetrault LLP, where she advised clients across a range of industries for mergers & acquisitions, strategic investments, complex commercial transactions and corporate governance. Rachel later joined the investment banking industry as a Senior Vice President at KPMG Corporate Finance, the most active M&A advisory firm in Canada, where she advised business owners on selling their business to strategic and financial buyers and managing the process throughout.

Troubled by the state of the consolidating Canadian economy, Rachel was motivated to start her own law firm and advocate for a more sustainable economy. Utilizing her Bay Street experience, Rachel now provides affordable and practical legal advice to entrepreneurs looking to start, scale or exit their businesses. As a fellow for the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, Rachel wrote “The Private Equity Playbook: How buyout firms extract rather than build value and what to do about it,” in which she advocates for a less extractive and more productive economy that will benefit all Canadians.

Prior to her work in finance and law, Rachel started her career in B2B marketing for two global consumer goods companies, Unilever and Reckitt.

She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics and a Juris Doctor from Queen’s University.