Kirsten R. Embree
Kirsten Embree is a partner in the Ottawa office of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP where she practices telecommunications, broadcasting, international trade and competition law as a member of FMC’s Federal Regulatory Practice Group. She has worked in both the telecommunications and broadcasting industries for over 15 years and was formerly Director of Regulatory matters and Legal Counsel at AT&T Canada Corp. Kirsten has also held positions at the former federal Department of Communications, Telesat Canada, the Canadian Independent Telephone Association, and the Canadian Film Institute.
Kirsten represents a number of major Canadian and international telecommunications and broadcasting clients, including local and long distance carriers, resellers, Internet service providers, wireless carriers, content providers, telecommunications equipment manufacturers, and several Canadian industry associations, including the Canadian Association of Internet Providers. Kirsten has also been involved in a number of major Canadian telecommunications industry transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, IPOs and other debt and equity financings.
Kirsten is the Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s Communications Law section and has been appointed by the Governor-in-Council to sit for a second consecutive term on the Government of Canada’s Sector Advisory Group on International Trade (SAGIT) for the Information Technologies and Communications sectors. She is an active member of the National Capital Association of Communications Lawyers, Canadian Women in communications, and the Steering Committee of the biennial conference on Communications Law sponsored by the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Canadian Bar Association. Kirsten is also a recipient of the Jeanne Sauvé Award in Communications which was presented to her in 1994 by the federal Department of Canadian Heritage. Kirsten is a frequent speaker at Canadian and international industry seminars on a variety of telecommunications and broadcasting regulatory issues and is listed among the experts for Communications Law referenced in the Guide to the World’s Leading Communications Lawyers, Lexpert, and the Chambers Global Guide to the Leading Lawyers (2001-2002).