Aaron Lightman is Managing Partner and oversees all strategic and legal matters pertaining to potential and current deployment opportunities. Aaron also has oversight over legal, governance and compliance activities.

Aaron practiced law for more than a decade in Vancouver prior to joining Merchant Opportunities Fund in 2018, with a practice focusing on advising clients, including Merchant Opportunities Fund, on mergers and acquisitions, finance, securities and commercial law.

Aaron received his BA(Hon) in Economics from Simon Fraser University in 2003, and his Juris Doctor from the University of Alberta in 2008.  He was called to the British Columbia Bar in 2009.