excellence awardee: Managing Partner of the Year

Sara Mainville

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Sara Mainville is the managing partner of JFK Law. She was called to the Ontario bar in 2005, and has since been called in BC (2022) and Saskatchewan (2024). Sara has a management degree (Lethbridge) and an LLB (Queen’s). Sara earned an LLM (Toronto) that engaged her in a lifetime study of Indigenous peoples’ jurisdiction and its important role in reconciliation in Canada. She practised law as a solo practitioner and taught jurisprudence to undergraduate students after being an associate for a well-known Anishinaabe-led law firm in Ontario. In 2014, Sara was elected Chief of Couchiching First Nation. She returned to law in 2016 and recommitted to Indigenous jurisdiction through cannabis, gaming, and tobacco work with First Nations. Sara is very proud of her participation in the negotiations that led to the creation of the First Nation Sovereign Wealth LP, a partnership of 129 First Nations in Ontario that involved 14 million Hydro One shares and $29 million in seed capital. She has a unique perspective from the vantage point of an Indigenous citizen of a Nation strongly aligned with their own sovereignty, a former Chief, and a legal practitioner within her own Anishinaabe constitutionalism. Sara has a busy practice overseeing several Bill C-92 files and supporting the governance and Crown-Indigenous relations work of her clients.

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The CMP Young Guns recognized him in 2016 as one of the Canadian mortgage Industry’s 50 brightest young stars. In 2018, 2020 & 2021, he was nominated as a Finalist for the Canadian Mortgage Awards in the categories of Alternative Lending Broker Specialist and Digital Innovator of the Year and in 2018 as a finalist for the Canadian Mortgage Awards of Excellence. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Community Trust Award for Alternative Broker Specialist of the Year – Business for Self. Reza was also recognized by the Canadian Mortgage Professional (CMP) magazine on its CMP Hotlist 2021 as one of the 53 professionals who survived the twists and turns of 2020 turning difficult situations into extraordinary opportunities, and in 2022 his brokerage was also recognized as a top brokerage on their 5-Star Brokerage List. Reza is passionate about community work, philanthropy, and contributing to initiatives that help our society’s overall success. Reza served in not-for-profit organizations in the areas of business & mentoring/ innovation, civil rights and social actions, and youth for several years in different capacities. In March 2014, he was granted the Ontario Volunteer Service Award from the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, Province of Ontario in recognition of a 5-year award for continued services.

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