Richard is a senior corporate lawyer with a wealth of experience in cross-border and international M&A, giving practical and strategic counsel to some of Canada’s largest institutional investors and businesses.
With Canadian and U.S. experience, Richard provides commercially minded counsel on mergers and acquisitions and securities transactions, whether domestic or cross-border. He has particular experience in the financial services sector, regularly working alongside financial institutions, companies, private equity firms and pension plans in their strategic transactional work.
Richard’s cross-border acumen comes from a background helping clients execute transactions in various jurisdictions. Currently in Toronto, Richard was formerly based in the firm’s New York office from 2000 to 2008; from 1989 to 1992, Richard practised in the Torys office in London, where he advised on international merger and acquisition transactions and euromarket financings.
Richard is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
2022-2023 | IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms—Notable practitioner in corporate and M&A |
2015-2024 | Best Lawyers in Canada—Leading lawyer in corporate law |
2017-2023 | The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory—Leading lawyer in mergers and acquisitions and corporate commercial law |