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Patricia A. Koval

Partner 

Patricia Koval
Direct:
416.865.7356    
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416.865.7380 
 
  
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Pat is repeatedly recognized as a leading corporate and M&A lawyer in Canada.

Practice

Pat Koval's practice focuses on corporate and securities law, with emphasis on corporate finance (including investment funds) and mergers and acquisitions.

Pat regularly acts for issuers and investment dealers in structuring international, cross-border and domestic public and private financings of equity, debt and other securities, and in the design of enhanced or new financial products and services. She has extensive experience in acting for sponsors, managers and distributors of listed closed-end funds, ETFs, REITs and income trusts, principal-protected and other notes, mutual funds, pooled funds, hedge funds, carbon funds and other structured products.

Pat also regularly acts for issuers, financial advisers and potential acquirors in structuring acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations, including takeover bids, arrangements, privately negotiated acquisitions and going private transactions. She has led a significant number of domestic and cross-border public takeover bids and negotiated acquisitions. Recent transactions include: in 2006, representing PSPIB in its takeover bid for Retirement Residences REIT; and AV Transworks in its takeover bid for Minacs Worldwide; in 2007, representing Hindalco Industries in its acquisition of Novelis; and, in 2009, representing K+S Aktiengesellschaft in the Canadian aspects of its acquisition of Morton International; ReichmannHauer Capital Partners in its sale of Black’s to Telus, and acting for the dissidents, Blue Ribbon Fund Management, in the proxy contest for control of the management of the Citadel Group Funds.

With her integrated expertise, Pat is also active in all corporate law, securities law, infrastructure and M&A aspects of the developing area of climate change. Pat is also the co-founder and co-chair of the firm's India Group and she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canada-India Business Council.

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Bar Admissions

Ontario, 1983

Education

LLB, 1981
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

MBA, 1981
Schulich School of Business, York University

BA Hons. (Economics, summa cum laude, Governor General’s Gold Medal), 1977
York University

 

Conferences and Events

October 4, 2010–October 5, 2010
September 21, 2010
Carbon Economy Summit 2010, Toronto, Ontario
September 14, 2010
Real REIT, Toronto, Ontario