Our Team

Sharon C. Geraghty

Partner

	Direct: 416.865.8138 Office: Toronto Fax: 416.865.7380 Email: sgeraghty@torys.com

	Sharon is co-head of the M&A Practice Group.

Practice

Sharon Geraghty practises in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities law. She has led domestic and cross-border acquisitions, takeover bids and amalgamations in both the public and private markets. She regularly acts for multinational corporations in a wide range of industries, including two of Canada's leading financial institutions, one of the world's largest global asset managers focused on property, power and infrastructure assets, and one of Canada's largest communications and media companies. Sharon also regularly advises companies, directors and shareholders on corporate governance and securities compliance matters.

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Recognitions

Lexpert's Special Law Inserts appearing in The Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine 2011—Most frequently recommended lawyer in corporate commercial, and corporate finance and securities

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011—Most frequently recommended practitioner in corporate commercial law, corporate finance and securities and M&A; repeatedly recommended in private equity

Chambers & Partners’ Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011—Leading lawyer in corporate/M&A

Lexpert/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2010, 2011 and 2012—Leading practitioner in corporate commercial law, corporate finance and securities and in M&A

Law Business Research’s Who’s Who Legal, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2011—Leading lawyer in M&A

Lexpert's Cross-Border Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada 2009 and 2010—Leading cross-border practitioner in M&A

Woodward White’s Best Lawyers in Canada 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012—Leading lawyer in corporate and M&A

Law Business Research’s Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2010—Leading lawyer in capital markets and M&A

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2010—Most frequently recommended practitioner in corporate commercial law and M&A; consistently recommended in corporate finance and securities; repeatedly recommended in private equity

Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2010—Recommended Canadian lawyer in corporate/M&A

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2009—Most frequently recommended practitioner in corporate/commercial law; consistently recommended in M&A and in private equity; repeatedly recommended in corporate finance and securities

Real Time News' LawDay 2009—Leading lawyer in M&A, corporate and securities

Lexpert/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2009—Leading practitioner in M&A

Legal Media Group/Euromoney's IFLR1000 The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms 2008 and 2009—Leading lawyer in M&A

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2008—Consistently recommended practitioner in corporate/commercial law and in private equity; repeatedly recommended in corporate finance and in M&A

Transactions

Sharon has represented

TMX Group in its proposed 2011 US$6.9 billion merger with London Stock Exchange Group
Nokia Siemens Networks in its $650 million offer for Nortel’s wireless network infrastructure and LTE business
Manulife Financial in its $2.275 billion equity offering
Broadcom Inc. in its $141.5 million acquisition of AMD's DTV business
National Bank Financial in its investment in Wellington Financial and its acquisition of Aquilon Capital
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in the spin off of its infrastructure operations, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
Aleris International as Canadian counsel in its 2006 €826 million acquisition of Corus Group’s downstream aluminum rolled products and extrusions businesses
Rogers Communications in its acquisition of Rogers Wireless
GSW and its majority shareholders in the United States and in Canada in the proposed $393.5 million acquisition by A.O. Smith
the Special Committee of Goldcorp on the bid by Wheaton and the competing transaction by Glamis
CanWest Global Communications on its hostile takeover bid for WIC Western International Communications and the subsequent agreement with the Allard family, Shaw and Corus to reorganize WIC’s assets
Luscar Coal in its hostile takeover bid for Manalta Coal
London Insurance Group in the competing takeover bids for the Group by Royal Bank and Great-West Life
Royal Trustco (now Gentra) in the sale of its worldwide trust operations to Royal Bank
Prism Medical on the convertible debt financing of its acquisition of two U.K. businesses
Leblanc & Royle Enterprises in the sale of its Canadian tower manufacturing business to a subsidiary of Onex and on the sale of its international tower manufacturing business to management
Ontario Power Generation on its negotiations with the Province of Ontario regarding the sharing of the cost of nuclear waste management
Orion Securities on the sale of its retail business to Rockwater Capital and its financing by outside investors
SkyDome in its 1994 privatization and in its subsequent sale under the provisions of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act
NetStar (TSN) in the management-led buyout of Labatt Communications
numerous clients on a wide variety of corporate governance and securities law advisory matters