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Patricia A. Koval

Partner 

Patricia Koval
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416.865.7356    
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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 representing PSPIB in its 2006 takeover bid for Retirement Residences REIT; AV Transworks in its 2006 takeover bid for Minacs Worldwide; and Hindalco Industries in its 2007 acquisition of Novelis.

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 co-founded and is co-chair of the firm’s interdisciplinary Climate Change and Emissions Trading Practice Group.

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Bar Admissions

Ontario, 1983

Education

LL.B., 1981
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

M.B.A., 1981
York University

B.A. (Economics, summa cum laude), 1977
York University