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CORPORATE FINANCE & SECURITIES
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Partner practicing corporate restructuring insolvency, private-equity funds and
investments, private-company acquisitions, banking, structured and project fi nance.
Lead counsel in Canadian and cross-border insolvencies. Experienced in the formation
of private investment funds, regulation of banks and fi nancial institutions, and corporate
governance. Named Toronto Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Lawyer of the
Year 2013 by Best Lawyers. Included in Chambers Global: ! e World's Leading Lawyers
for Business, ! e Best Lawyers in Canada 2014, Law Business Research's International
Who's Who of Business Lawyers; Global Counsel 3000; PLC Which Lawyer?; Legal
Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers and
Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers; ! e 2006 Lexpert® Guide to the 100 Most
Creative Lawyers in Canada; ! e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory; and ! e Lexpert®/
American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. Fellow of both the
Insolvency Institute of Canada and the American College of Commercial Finance
Lawyers. Called in Ontario in 1975.
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Partner – Mining, Securities and Mergers & Acquisitions. Lead counsel for a number
of public clients that have been involved in mergers, acquisitions, take-over bids (both
hostile and friendly), proxy fi ghts, going-private transactions, spin-off transactions,
corporate fi nance and corporate governance matters. Acts as counsel for special
committees of boards of directors. Practice also involves assisting mining clients both
domestically and internationally. Recognized as one of the world's leading mining
practitioners by Chambers Global, ! e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, ! e Lexpert®/
American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, the Lexpert® Guide
to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada, Best Lawyers
(named 2013 'Lawyer of the Year' for Natural Resources Law – Toronto), and Who's
Who Legal. Also ranked as a leading M&A lawyer by Lexpert® and Chambers Global,
and as a leading Corporate Finance & Securities and Corporate Mid-Market lawyer
by Lexpert®. Member of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. Called to the
Ontario Bar in 1983.
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Partner and Toronto regional leader of BLG's Securities & Capital Markets Group and
Mining Group. Specializes in securities law and capital markets transactions, including
Canadian and cross-border corporate fi nance transactions and mergers & acquisitions.
Also advises on corporate governance matters and acts as advisor to special committees
and Boards of Directors. Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School. Past member of
the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission and former
chair of the Securities Law Subcommittee of the Ontario Bar Association. Contributing
Editor, Federated Press Corporate Financing. LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School, 1985 and
HBA (BAdmin), University of Western Ontario, 1982. Called to the Ontario Bar in
1987. Recognized in the 2014 edition of IFLR1000: ! e Guide to the World's Leading
Financial Law Firms as well as the 2014 and 2013 editions of ! e Lexpert®/American
Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Mid-Market).
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Widely regarded and ranked by numerous rating agencies as one of Canada's leading
M&A lawyers. Representative transactions include acting as lead counsel in defending
Augusta Resources against the hostile C$600-million bid by HudBay Minerals,
Minmetals Resources' C$1.33-billion bid for Anvil Mining and its C$6.3-billion
unsolicited bid for Equinox Resources (then the largest unsolicited bid ever made by
a Chinese enterprise), Newmont's C$2.3-billion acquisition of Fronteer Gold, Eike
Batista's C$1.6-billion hostile bid for Ventana Gold, Toromont Industries' hostile
bid for Enerfl ex Systems Income Fund, Fresnillo's unsolicited bid for MAG Silver,
Detour Gold's merger with PDX Resources, numerous proxy contests in the Canadian
mining space and numerous change of control transactions for Barrick Gold, including
Barrick's C$10.3-billion acquisition of Placer Dome (at the time the largest hostile bid
in Canadian history and still the largest acquisition ever completed in the world's gold
mining industry).
Jay A.
Swartz
Davies Ward
Phillips &
Vineberg LLP
Tel: (416) 863-5520
Fax: (416) 863-0871
Toronto
Paul M. Stein
Cassels Brock &
Blackwell LLP
Tel: (416) 869-5487
Fax: (416) 350-6949
Toronto
Philippe
Tardif
Borden Ladner
Gervais LLP
Tel: (416) 367-6060
Fax: (416) 361-2559
Toronto
Kevin J.
Thomson
Davies Ward
Phillips &
Vineberg LLP
Tel: (416) 863-5590
Fax: (416) 863-0871
Toronto
jswartz@dwpv.com
pstein@casselsbrock.com
ptardif@blg.com
kthomson@dwpv.com
