Brian C. Graves

Brian C. Graves

Brian Graves is a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto. His practice consists mainly of advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and other securities law matters, with particular emphasis on cross-border transactions and clients in the mining sector.

Mr. Graves has acted for domestic and foreign issuers in connection with public and private securities offerings and securities regulatory matters. He has advised clients on hostile and friendly take-over bids, reverse take-overs, plans of arrangement, asset and share purchases and other business combinations, as well as dispositions and joint ventures. He also advises public and private company clients on general corporate and commercial matters. Major clients he has recently represented include Gold Fields, Creststreet, LionOre Mining International, Nickel Asia, Ivernia, TD Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, Credit Suisse, CI Fund Management and Altamira.

A former member of the firm's Opinions Committee, he has published in the areas of public company redomicilings and take-over bids and has lectured on topics including corporate transactions, shareholder agreements and directors' duties. He lectures on securities law at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Windsor law schools, 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 LLB 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.