| Biography | Brian Graves is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault's Toronto office and co-leader of the firm's Global Mining Group. His practice consists mainly of advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, commercial and securities law matters, with particular emphasis on cross-border transactions and clients in the mining sector. Mr. Graves regularly acts as lead counsel for Canadian and foreign clients on hostile and friendly take-over bids, reverse take-overs, plans of arrangement, asset and share purchases and related party transactions; public and private securities offerings, stock exchange listings and securities regulatory matters; and commercial arrangements such as joint ventures, earn-ins, operating agreements, off-take arrangements, royalties and lending transactions. Major mining clients he has recently represented include Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Gold Fields, Vale, Votorantim, Royal Gold, Lake Shore Gold, Village Main Reef, LionOre, Nickel Asia and Ivernia. He has also acted on acquisitions and other matters for TD Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, Credit Suisse, CI Funds and Altamira. He has published in the areas of public company redomicilings, take-over bids and mining disclosure and has lectured on topics including cross-border M&A, shareholder agreements, transactions involving multiple listed companies and directors' duties. He teaches securities law as a professor at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and as a lecturer at the University of Windsor law school, and has appeared on the faculty of the Directors College founded by McMaster University. Mr. Graves received his BComm with a joint honours in economics and finance from McGill University and his LL.B from the University of Toronto. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1997, and was admitted to practice as an attorney in the State of New York in 1998. He is a member of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. |