Torys represents private equity funds and institutions in buyout and venture capital transactions; we represent financial institutions in their investments in buyout and venture capital funds; and we are counsel to fund sponsors in their capital raising and fund-formation activities.
As an integrated international law firm, Torys' Private Equity Group can draw upon our extensive resources and expertise on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. Transaction structures must often accommodate various competing objectives, including leverage, managing risk and valuations. As a result, a wide variety of instruments, including equity, convertible or subordinated debt, bridge loans, options, warrants and exchangeable instruments are frequently used in what are often multi-tiered financings.
Aligning the interests of senior management with those of the investors can also require complex instruments and complex management employment and incentive arrangements, along with sophisticated shareholder governance and liquidity arrangements.
Most importantly, we have extensive experience in the process of exiting investments made by our private equity clients, including public offerings, high-yield debt placements, recapitalizations, income trust offerings and, where necessary, workouts.
Our in-house expertise in pension and employment, environmental law, restructuring and insolvency law, tax law, intellectual property law and our unique U.S.-Canada partnership provide clients with access to all the expertise necessary for successful private equity transactions.