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Miranda Lam, KC

Chief Legal Officer & Vice President, Business Development

Before joining Acuitas in 2022, Miranda was an equity partner at the national law firm McCarthy Tétrault LLP, where she gained significant recognition for her legal expertise and was a trusted business advisor to private and public enterprises across Canada and globally.

A skilled litigator, Miranda is recognized for her strategic thinking and business-oriented, problem-solving approach to all disputes. Miranda has also been recognized as a Leading Lawyer in the area of General Commercial Litigation in independent publications such as Chambers Canada, The Best Lawyers in Canada, and Benchmark Canada: The Definitive Guide to Canada’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys. In 2019, market research firm Acritas identified Miranda as a “Stand-out Lawyer”. In 2018, she was named in Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50 List of the City’s Most Influential People. She has been identified as a “Leading Lawyer under 40” by Lexpert (2017), “Best 40 Under 40” Lawyer by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (2015), and was the recipient of the Association of Women in Finance 2014 PEAK Women in Finance “Rising Star” Award. In 2013, she was recognized as one of Business in Vancouver’s “Forty Under 40”. In 2023, Miranda was recognized by YWCA Vancouver as a Woman of Distinction in the “Business & the Professions” category. She was appointed King’s Counsel in December 2023.

Miranda is a frequent speaker on corporate governance issues, investigations and dispute resolution processes, as well as diversity and inclusion and served as McCarthy Tetrault’s first National Chair of its Gender Equality Action Group. She has also served as faculty for the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, The Directors’ College and for The Advocates Society, and as an adjunct professor on corporate law topics at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law.

Along with being a strong advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in the legal and biotech sectors, Miranda currently serves as Chair of the Board of Governors of the University of British Columbia and the board of the BC Cancer Foundation. She is also a member of the board of directors of UBC Properties Trust and the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. She has previously chaired the boards of the Vancouver Foundation (the largest community foundation in Canada), the UBC Alumni Association and Vantage Point, and has served as a director of the board of the United Way of the Lower Mainland and Imagine Canada.

Miranda joined Acuitas because she was (and remains) inspired by the brilliant people on the team, the scientists and business professionals who are dedicated to making a difference in human health and their collective commitment to collaboration to realize this goal.

Awards

Recently awarded to Miranda Lam, KC

2023

YWCA Metro Vancouver’s Women of Distinction Award – Business & the Professions

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2023

Canadian Corporate Counsel Association – Transition to Business Award Finalist