Our Team

Lexpert/American Lawyer’s Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2012—Leading lawyer in corporate finance and securities

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011—Repeatedly recommended practitioner in corporate finance and securities

Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2010—Recommended Canadian lawyer in capital markets: debt and equity

• Fairfax Financial Holdings in its acquisition of Prime Restaurants
• Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation in connection with a cease trade order variance
• 407 International in its tolling services arrangements with Infrastructure Ontario
• Wi-LAN Inc. in its 2011 offering of convertible debentures
• the underwriters of Dundee REIT’s August 2011 Series A unit offering
• RBC Capital Markets as the underwriters of bonds offered by Plenary Properties LTAP LP as successful proponent for the Communications Security Establishment Canada PPP project
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in the private placement of guaranteed debentures in multiple series of Cadillac Fairview Finance Trust
• IESI-BFC (now Progressive Waste Solutions)
• in its 2009 and 2011 Canadian and U.S. public offerings
• in its merger with Waste Services
• Bank of Montreal in its offerings of non-principal protected notes
• 407 International in its medium-term note offerings
• GMAC Canada in its domestic debt and euronote offerings and asset securitizations
• Home Equity Income Trust in its conversion to a corporate structure
• PDM Royalties Income Fund in its 2009 conversion to a corporate structure and its combination with Imvescor, its related restaurant operating company
• BFI Canada in its conversion to a corporate structure
• Bank of Montreal in its offerings of non-principal protected notes
• 407 International in its medium-term note offerings
• GMAC Canada in its domestic debt and euronote offerings and asset securitizations
• Western Forest Products in its 2009 and 2006 rights offerings
• Village Farms in connection with its combination with Hot House Growers Income Fund, and the fund’s subsequent rights offering and conversion to a corporate structure
• Pizza Pizza Royalty Income Fund and Pizza Pizza Limited in the fund’s initial public offering and its 2007 acquisition of Pizza 73 and related transactions
• Persistence Capital Partners in its 2008 bid for Medisys Health Group
• First Capital Realty in its takeover bid for Sterling Centrecorp
• Nortel Networks in its 2007 US$1.15 billion offering of senior unsecured convertible notes in the United States and Canada
• Resolve Business Outsourcing Income Fund in its initial public offering
• BFI Canada Income Fund in its cross-border combination with IESI and subsequent secondary offerings
• Medisys Health Group in its conversion from a public company to an income fund, and in its 2005 and 2006 unit offerings
• Connors Bros. Income Fund in its cross-border combination with Bumble Bee Seafoods and subsequent offerings
• the underwriters of ING Canada’s initial public offering
• National Bank Financial in the offerings by PDM Royalties Income Fund, and the proposed income security offering by Mini-Skool Early Learning Centres
• Scotia Capital in secondary and treasury offerings of units of Calpine Power Income Fund
• Alliance Atlantis Communications in the initial public offering and subsequent private placement by Movie Distribution Income Fund
• Great Lakes Carbon Income Fund in its initial public offering and subsequent offerings
• CIBC World Markets in the Connors Bros. Income Fund and Futuremed Healthcare Income Fund initial public offerings, and the special warrant offerings by Geac and Assante
• TD Securities in the Liberty Media block trade of Corus Entertainment stock
• the agents in offerings under Textron Financial Canada Funding's medium term note program
• Brookfield Properties in cross-border secondary offerings of its common shares
• RBC Dominion Securities, Salomon Smith Barney and Bear Stearns in debt and equity offerings by AT&T Canada/MetroNet Communications

He has also spoken on securities regulatory issues at a number of conferences.

Securities Advisory Committee, Ontario Securities Commission
Securities Law Subcommittee, Ontario Bar Association