Edward Kerwin recently retired after more than 30 years as a partner with the firm's Business Law Group in Toronto, Calgary and London. Mr. Kerwin's practice focused on capital markets, corporate finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and corporations and partnership laws.
Mr. Kerwin advised on a broad range of corporate and securities matters. He was involved in numerous public securities offerings, private placements of equity and debt both in Canada and internationally, on behalf of issuers, investment dealers and investors, many takeover bids, and public and private acquisitions and reorganizations. He has been accorded the highest peer review rating by Martindale Hubbell for over 25 years.
He has been a frequent speaker on governance, directors' and officers' liabilities, merger and acquisition strategies, and corporate and securities law matters. He was a managing editor of McCarthy Tétrault Co-Counsel: Business Law Quarterly from 2006 to 2010, has authored more than 60 articles, and has taught seminars on governance and directors' and officers' liabilities at the University of Windsor Law School, the University of Western Ontario Law School, the Directors' College of McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business and the Conference Board of Canada.
He was the winner of "Author of the Year - Capital Markets Canada" in the Lexology Legal Writing Awards 2010, based on the number of articles, the content of the articles, and the total number of readers attracted by his articles.
Mr. Kerwin was the resident managing partner of our Calgary office from 1984 to 1987 and founding and resident managing partner of our London, UK office from 1987 to 1990.
He has been a director and president of the University of Toronto Alumni Association, chair of the University of Toronto Electoral College, a director and member of the executive committee of The Canadian Stage Company, chair of the ShareLife Corporate Campaign, a member of the Toronto Board of Trade's CEO Forum on Urban Competitiveness, and a director of public and private corporations. He is currently a director of the City of Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and of the Gibbons-Daley Foundation.
Mr. Kerwin received a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1973 and the Alberta bar in 1981. He completed the Directors' Education Program of the Institute of Corporate Directors and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 2005. He holds an ICD.D. from the Institute of Corporate Directors.
(Retired)