Best Lawyers Near You in Toronto, Ontario for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law

Stewart Sutcliffe is a partner in and former Head of the Private Equity and Private Mergers & Acquisitions Groups and is a member of the Management Committee in the Toronto office. Stewart has a diversified corporate practice, focusing on domestic and cross border private and public mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments, including PIPE transactions.

Jon Levin has an unmatched reputation for providing top-level advice. An advocate of exemplary client service, Jon has acted as lead counsel in high profile financings, takeovers and restructuring transactions. In the corporate governance area, Jon has advised special committees and has provided strategic guidance on board procedures and the implementation of governance polices in response to new legislation and developments. Jon has served as a director of a number of public and private comp...

Joel Binder is a partner in the Corporate Group with a broad corporate/securities practice. Joel is widely recognized as one of Canada’s leading corporate lawyers and has been ranked in the areas of M&A, private equity, capital markets and securities, and corporate law by The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada , The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory , Lexpert Special Edition: Finance and M&A , International Financial Law Review’s IFLR1000 and...

Michael Decicco is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets Groups. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, securities, corporate finance, and general corporate and commercial matters. Mike has significant experience representing clients on complex M&A transactions (including SPAC qualifying transactions), minority and majority investments and strategic transactions across a range of industries including information technology, energy, financial services, ...

Simon Romano is a partner in the Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. His practice focuses on securities, public and private mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance. He advises public companies, financial institutions, underwriters, investment funds, private equity funds, real estate investment trusts and income trusts, alternative trading systems and regulatory and self-regulatory organizations. He also advises on corporate governance and executive compensation matt...

Jonah Mann is Head of the Corporate Department and a member of the Toronto Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance and securities law compliance matters. Jonah regularly acts for Canadian public companies and leading investment banks on complex capital markets transactions including IPOs, acquisition financing, cross-border offerings, takeover bids and business combinations. He also frequently repre...

Gesta Abols’ practice is focused on mergers & acquisitions (including private equity), strategic investments, corporate governance and shareholder activism. Gesta provides expert legal advice, superior service and structure to bring clarity to complex challenges. Gesta is the Co-Leader of the firm’s US Practice and on the executive of the firm’s Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions (CM and M&A) Committee. Gesta is consistently recognized as a leader in the ...

Evan Marcus is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Securities and Capital Markets Groups. His practice is focused primarily on complex corporate and transactional matters, in particular relating to leveraged acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, minority investments, financings, restructurings, as well as general corporate and commercial matters. Evan has significant experience advising private equity, financial sponsor and other clients in connection with both ...

Vince Imerti is a partner in the Real Estate, Corporate and Tax Groups. Vince has led teams in a number of complex and large acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, debt restructurings, financings and derivative transactions. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate, trust and partnership investment matters particularly in the alternative asset space. He has extensive experience forming funds and structuring, negotiating and implementing direct and indirect real estate, inf...

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...

Jay Lefton practices corporate and securities law. Jay advises clients on public and private mergers & acquisitions transactions, private equity matters and public and private financings, as well as assisting with strategic alliances, technology transfer and licensing. He works predominantly in the technology and life sciences sector. Assisting acquirers and target companies and their boards of directors, Jay advises on negotiated transactions and unsolicited takeover bids, most of which ...

Samantha Horn is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Groups. Her practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital financing. She is highly experienced both in investments and buyout transactions, with particular expertise concerning matters in the life sciences and technology sectors. She operates a market-leading transactional practice in the private equity space, covering a wide range of M&A and financing mandates, alo...

Jeffrey Singer has built a market-leading practice backed by over 30 years of experience advising on Canada’s most complex and high-profile domestic and cross-border transactions. With a particular focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets and private equity-related matters, Jeffrey regularly represents industry-leading clients, including banks, private capital firms, pension funds, and major corporations. Jeffrey previously served as Chair of Stike...

Grant McGlaughlin is co-leader of the Private Equity Group and practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate finance, governance and sensitive and complex transactions. He provides superior service and expert legal advice to public and private issuers, underwriters and private equity funds in a broad range of industries including mining and natural resources, technology and industrial. Grant has an extensive corporate practice providing general legal and strate...

Mike Devereux is a partner in the Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups and a member of the Associates Committee in the Toronto office. His practice focuses on securities and corporate law, with an emphasis on public and private mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, private equity transactions, strategic transactions such as joint ventures, partnerships and significant investments, and corporate finance transactions. Mike has advised issuers, boards of directors, spe...

Darin Renton is a partner in the Financial Products & Services and Energy – Oil & Gas Groups. His practice focuses on the formation, structuring and distribution of investment funds, including private equity, mortgage, real estate, hedge and closed-end funds, mutual funds, ETFs and flow-through limited partnerships. Darin has structured funds that invest in bitcoin, cryptocurrency, films and litigation. He has significant experience in private equity transactions, mergers and ac...