Ms. Miranda Lam, K.C., is the Chief Legal Officer & Vice President, Business Development at Acuitas Therapeutics, Inc., a Vancouver-based biotechnology company and global leader in lipid nanoparticle technology, that works with partners to advance nucleic acid therapeutics to address unmet clinical needs.
Formerly an equity partner in the litigation group at the national law firm, McCarthy Tétrault, Miranda has 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. She has also been named in Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50 List of the City’s Most Influential People, and previously identified as a Leading Lawyer under 40 by Lexpert (2017), a “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 & Professions” category. She was appointed King’s Counsel in December 2023.
Miranda is a frequent speaker championing the life sciences and biotech industry, as well as specific topics relating to corporate governance and diversity and inclusion. 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.
Miranda currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the BC Cancer Foundation. She is also a member of the boards 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), alumni UBC, Vantage Point, and has served as a director of the boards of the United Way of the Lower Mainland and Imagine Canada.
