Waseem Jarjis

Waseem Jarjis

Associate Lawyer

Expertise

Waseem Jarjis is an associate lawyer in the Banking & Financial Services group at Macdonald Sager LLP with a focus on secured lending.

Waseem acts for a number of banks, credit unions, private lenders and corporate borrowers on a variety of commercial financing transactions and real estate acquisitions.

Waseem obtained his J.D. from the University of Windsor Faculty of Law and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law joint program in 2020. While in Law School, he served as Windsor Law’s Vice-President Academic and received the J.W. Whiteside Award for outstanding service to the Faculty of Law, the Brad Hodgson Memorial Award for extensive extracurricular participation, and the Student Leadership Scholarship. Waseem was called to the Ontario Bar in 2021.

Prior to joining Macdonald Sager, Waseem articled with the Ministry of Finance, Legal Services Branch, where he worked on a number of debt financing transactions and was subsequently hired as Crown Counsel with the Branch prosecuting tax offences.

  • Education & Admissions

    • Called to the Ontario Bar, 2021

      Dual JD, University of Windsor Law and Detroit Mercy School of Law, 2020. 

  • Awards & Recognition

    • Recipient of the J.W. Whiteside Award for outstanding service to the Faculty of Law, Windsor Law and Detroit Mercy School of Law.

      Recipient of the Brad Hodgson Memorial Award for extensive extracurricular participation, Windsor Law and Detroit Mercy School of Law.

      Recipient of the Student Leadership Scholarship, Windsor Law and Detroit Mercy School of Law.

  • Memberships & Associations

    • Law Society of Ontario

  • Community Involvement

    • Co-Chair of Feel-Pink, a charity aimed at raising money and awareness for breast cancer, in association with the Canadian Cancer Society.

      Annual participant in Movember, successfully raising over $30,000 for this foundation while in law school.

      Chair of Help our (Hungry) Heroes, formed during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Help our (Hungry) Heroes was created to raise money to send food to hospitals and long-term care homes to feed their staff.

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