As Senior Vice-President General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Wendy Kelley is a member of the Biovail's senior management team. She is responsible for Biovail's worldwide legal operations including corporate governance securities compliance mergers and acquisitions intellectual property litigation patent law legal policies and legal support for the Company's Business Units. She also serves as Corporate Secretary to the Board of Directors. Prior to joining Biovail in August 2006 Ms. Kelley was Vice-President Associate General Counsel and Principal Reputation Risk Officer for BMO Financial Group. Her responsibilities included enterprise-wide responsibility for corporate governance; legal and reputation risk management; regulatory relationship management; and management of all securities litigation and regulatory enforcement issues. Previously she was Managing Director and Associate General Counsel for BMO Nesbitt Burns one of Canada’s leading wealth-management firms and the North American investment and corporate banking division where she oversaw all litigation securities policy development and regulatory enforcement including management of several large international securities class actions and an analyst fraud case. Previously she was a lawyer at Torys LLP an international law firm.
Ms. Kelley received her law degree from Queen's University in Kingston Ontario Canada. |