Practice Areas & Industries: Lawson Lundell LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Our Corporate Finance and Securities Group is experienced in a broad range of public and private financings including equity, debt and income fund offerings. We act for a wide variety of public and private issuers, underwriters, trustees, institutional investors, venture capital and private equity funds and other market participants.

Our clients operate in a multitude of business sectors and jurisdictions. We have particular expertise in the mining, energy, forestry and industrial sectors as well as technology. Many of our issuer clients are based outside of Canada.

Our group regularly draws upon the skills and expertise of legal practitioners in other areas of the firm including tax, competition, regulatory, labour and employment, litigation and pensions.

Services Available

Our Corporate Finance and Securities Group has expertise representing acquirers, targets, boards, committees, shareholder groups and financial advisors in a wide range of mergers and acquisitions including:

• negotiated (friendly) and non-negotiated (hostile) take-over bids
• plans of arrangement
• divestitures
• corporate reorganizations
• proxy contests
• going private transactions
• leveraged buy-outs and similar transactions, both domestic and cross-border

In addition to transactional work, we assist clients with compliance, including corporate governance, disclosure obligations, stock exchange requirements and other securities regulatory matters.

For more information, please contact:

Gordon R. Chambers at grchambers@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9191

John Smith at jsmith@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9120

Anthony W. Ryan at tryan@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9116