David Woollcombe is a partner in the Toronto office and former Practice Group Leader of the Business Law Group (2007-2012).
Mr. Woollcombe has advised many public and private Canadian businesses on acquisition, divestiture or reorganization transactions. He represented CIBC on its acquisition of an approximately $2 billion credit card portfolio from Citigroup's Canadian MasterCard business, Integrated Device Technology on its acquisition of Tundra Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices on its acquisition of ATI Technologies, Fairmont Hotels on its acquisition by Kingdom Hotels and Colony Capital, CP Ships in respect of a take-over bid made by TUI, Renasant Financial Partners in respect of the sale of its leasing business to Icon Capital, Macquarie Bank on its acquisition of the Leisureworld business, TD Bank on the transfer of its private equity business to Birch Hill, the shareholders of KBSH Capital Management on its sale to Rockwater and the Special Committee of Stuart Energy on a take-over bid made for Stuart Energy by Hydrogenics.
Mr. Woollcombe has significant experience in corporate finance matters, having acted for issuers and investment dealers in a wide variety of cross-border and domestic public offerings and private placements. Transactions include convertible debt offerings by Fairmont Hotels and CP Ships (acted for issuer) and Northland Power and Summit REIT (acted for underwriters), multiple MTN issuances by GE Capital and Wells Fargo (acted for issuer), debt offerings by Shaw Communications, Brookfield Power, Thomson Reuters and Kimco (acted for underwriters) and equity offerings by Jubilant Draximage Inc. (formerly Draxis Health) and Score Media (acted for issuer) and Sandvine and Summit REIT (acted for underwriters).
Mr. Woollcombe acts regularly for major Canadian and U.S. insurance companies on secured and unsecured private placement transactions. Experience includes issues by Maple Leaf Foods, CML Healthcare, Boralex, CTV Specialty, Menu Foods, Husky Injection Molding Systems, Island Timberlands, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment and KCP.
He regularly advises clients on governance matters and has assisted clients in structuring joint ventures and related shareholders agreements.
He is listed in the 2012 Best Lawyers in Canada directory in the areas of corporate, mergers and acquisitions and securities law; the 2010 International Financial Law Review Guide for expertise in mergers and acquisitions law; the 2010 International Who's Who Legal Guide as a leading expert in mergers and acquisitions; the 2011 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a leading lawyer in the area of corporate mid-market finance and private equity; the Legal Media Group's 2010 Guide to the World's Leading Private Equity Lawyers; and Lexpert's 2006 40 Corporate Lawyers to Watch.
Mr. Woollcombe received his BA from Carleton University in 1986 and his LLB from Queen's University in 1989. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1991. He spent part of 1995 on secondment to the Corporate Finance Branch of the Ontario Securities Commission. He has taught courses on directors' duties at the Directors College and securities law at the University of Western Ontario and University of Windsor.