Jordan Michael Fenton
Jordan Michael Fenton is a Canadian operations consultant and former corporate lawyer based in Toronto, Ontario. He spent roughly twelve years at some of Canada's best-known Bay Street firms advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reorganizations before leaving private practice to work directly with businesses navigating complex operational problems. He's now focused on special situations advisory and consulting for sales organizations.
Education
Fenton studied at York University's Schulich School of Business, where he finished a Bachelor of Business Administration With Distinction in 2009. His specialization was finance and accounting. He chose to continue into law school and enrolled at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, graduating With Distinction in 2012 with a Juris Doctor. Both degrees came with distinction, something Fenton has said reflects how seriously he took the academic side of his training even when the practical work eventually took over.
Legal Career
He joined Torys LLP in the summer of 2011 as a student, first working a summer articling position before returning full-time after being called to the bar. Torys is one of Canada's most prominent corporate and securities firms, known for handling large-scale capital markets work and complex cross-border deals. Fenton stayed for eleven years.
His practice at Torys covered corporate law, securities law, and commercial contracts. The bread and butter of the work was M&A: mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, takeover bids, issuer bids, arrangements, and secondary offerings. He also handled continuous disclosure obligations for public companies and drafted the kinds of foundational documents (shareholders' agreements, purchase and sale contracts, confidentiality agreements, non-solicitation arrangements) that show up in almost every significant corporate transaction. He published articles on Canadian corporate and securities law matters through the firm.
Two secondments gave him a look inside large institutional clients during that period. At Sun Life Financial, from December 2019 to March 2020, he worked on the legal side of a series of acquisitions and supported the company's regulatory filings. He met frequently with the corporate development team there to walk them through the legal implications of various deals and internal reorganizations. Earlier, in early 2014, he spent several months at Ontario Power Generation drafting board-level and management policies for the crown corporation and its subsidiaries.
In June 2022, Fenton moved to KPMG Law LLP, where he worked as Senior Manager and Senior Associate in Business Law until July 2023. His work there continued in the same vein, covering corporate, securities, and commercial advisory work within KPMG's multidisciplinary structure.
Consulting Practice
Fenton left private legal practice in 2023 and set up an independent consulting practice in Toronto. The work is different from what lawyers typically do after leaving firms. He doesn't advise on legal questions. That's intentional. Instead, he works with businesses on operational problems: how companies are structured to make decisions, where processes break down, and what leadership teams need to do differently when things stop working.
He has said that eleven years of sitting across the table from executives during some of their most difficult corporate moments gave him a particular view of where businesses actually struggle. Not just legally, but organizationally. That's the work he does now. His practice includes a specific focus on sales organizations, helping leadership teams build the operational structure and process discipline that high-growth sales teams tend to lack.
Volunteer Work
Since February 2024, Fenton has volunteered with Sunshine Therapy Dogs, a Toronto organization that places trained therapy dogs in shelters and community facilities to provide emotional support to vulnerable individuals. He participates with his own trained therapy dog.
Personal
Fenton has cited sports and technology (including computer networking and programming) as longstanding interests.