Braeden Ness

Associate

Winnipeg

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Education & Qualifications

  • Manitoba Bar (2024)
  • JD (Manitoba, 2023)

Braeden is an associate lawyer in the firm’s business law group with a particular focus on securities, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate commercial law.

Braeden practises in the area of corporate/commerical law, supporting the firm’s corporate finance and securities and mergers and acquisitions groups.

Braeden summered with the firm in 2022 and obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Manitoba in 2023. He returned to the firm to complete his articles in 2023. During law school, Braeden was the article section editor for the Desautels Review, a journal devoted to promoting leading scholarship on family-controlled and other private enterprises.

  • Article Section Editor, Private Enterprise and Law, Desautels Review (2022)
  • Sports Committee, Manitoba Law Students’ Association (Manitoba, 2021)
  • Facilitator and Teacher, CanU Law (2020)
  • Garth Erickson Memorial Prize for highest standing, Commercial Law (2022-2023)
  • Dean’s Honour List ranking top 10% of law students, Pitblado Scholar (2020-2021, 2021-2022)
  • D.A. Thompson Q.C. Prizes for highest standing, Comparative Law (2021-2022)
  • D.A. Thompson Q.C. Prizes for highest standing, Constitutional Law (2020-2021)
  • Dean’s Honour List, Faculty of Management (2017-2019)
  • UM Guertin Centennial Entrance Scholarship (2017-2018)