David Randell is a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto. He has a general corporate and securities practice with a focus on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. His practice also includes advising clients on corporate law and corporate governance matters.
Mr. Randell's experience includes acting for reporting issuers and underwriters in various corporate finance deals, including private placements both in Canada and abroad, public offerings, and private equity and venture capital financing. He has experience with medium term notes, debt offerings (including high-yield debt) and regularly acts for the firms' major corporate clients, including financial institutions.
Mr. Randell also regularly advises on public and private merger and acquisition transactions, including take-over bids and share sales. His recent experience includes acting for Rio Tinto on a number of transactions involving Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
In 2009, Mr. Randell completed a six month secondment to the Royal Bank of Canada legal group.
Mr. Randell received his BA (Economics) from Mount Allison University in 2000 and his JD from the University of Toronto in 2003. While in law school, he won the Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Prize in Business Organizations and the Jacob Finkelman Prize in Labour Law. He was called to the Ontario bar in 2005.