Best Lawyers in Canada for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law

Jean-Sébastien Dugas is recognized for his expertise in mergers and acquisitions, the sale of private corporations, private corporate financing (by way of equity, bank debt, subordinated loans, etc.) and commercial contracts.Jean-Sébastien has overseen numerous acquisitions, equity participations and banking transactions during his career. He acts primarily for SME, private equity funds, venture capital companies and financial institutions.He provides practical advice based on h...

Sean Stevens is Co-Leader of the Firm’s Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions (CM and M&A) Group and the Chair of the Ontario Region’s Business Law Group. His practice is focused on domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate reorganizations and infrastructure projects. Clients include public and private companies, private equity funds and their investors, business owners and project sponsors and financers. For two decade...

Angela leads the firm’s Fund Investments & Asset Management Group and has more than two decades of experience advising Canadian asset managers and institutional investors on fund structuring, formation, and investment activities across all asset classes, both domestically and internationally. Within her fund investments practice, Angela diligences and negotiates separately managed account agreements, pooled fund investments, secondary acquisitions, co-investments and direct investme...

Dee Rajpal is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Securities Groups, and a member of the Management Committee in the Toronto office. His practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance, restructuring, proxy disputes and compliance matters with an emphasis on cross-border and international transactions. Dee has over 25 years’ experience in counseling senior management and the boards of directors of leading publi...

Allan is a partner in our Business Law and Corporate Finance Groups. He has built his practice by advising clients on corporate finance and corporate/commercial legal issues. He is a recognized team player who likes to think outside the box to solve specific client challenges. Clients select Allan for his creativity, responsiveness and cost-effective counsel. Allan provides counsel on transactions as well as day-to-day activities for a wide range of clients, including manufacturers, distribut...

Jeremy Sculnick is a partner in the Corporate Group whose practice focuses on Canadian and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance transactions. He works with domestic and multi-national private and public companies as well as investors across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on life sciences and technology. Jeremy also has extensive experience in venture capital financings, strategic investment transactions, public company matters and...

Jean Michel Lapierre is a business lawyer recognized for his leading practice in mergers & acquisitions, capital markets and securities law. Jean Michel has been involved in several major acquisition, sale, merger or going-private transactions of publicly-traded companies, including friendly and hostile take-over bids and complex statutory arrangements. He has also been involved in a large number of private M&A transactions. He has acted on behalf of issuers, securities dealers and in...

Rafal Wrzesien is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. Rafal, who practices law in Montréal, Quebec, has been recognized since 2021. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Rafal is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Craig Story is a partner in the Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. He has served on the firm’s Partnership Board, as well as on the management group for the Calgary office. Craig’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law, including public and private capital markets offerings, private equity and venture capital funds, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. His corporate finance practice includes advising issuers, major investors and underwr...

Michael Burkett is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group whose practice focuses on advising public and private companies and private equity investors on complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisition transactions, divestitures, going private transactions as well as public company governance and compliance issues. In addition, Michael also assists domestic, U.S. and other international clients in connection with corporate finance, securities and general corporate commerc...

Kevin A. Custodio is a partner in the Corporate Group. His practice primarily focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies as well as private equity and venture capital. Kevin’s experience includes advising several Canadian and foreign clients in acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and general commercial negotiations across industry sectors. He is a member of the Montréal office’s Students & Stagiaire...

Gary Ott is an experienced corporate/commercial lawyer practicing in Vancouver. He is a regional Co-Leader of the Firm’s Private M&A group. Gary provides clients with strategic, practical and cost-effective advice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, reorganizations, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, debt and equity financings and general business law. He has significant experience working with clients in the technology, forestry, retail and energy service...