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Greg Hollingsworth

Lawson Lundell LLP
  • Recognized Since:
    2016
  • Recognized in:
    Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
  • Website:
    https://www.lawsonlundell.com
  • Languages:
    English
  • Location:
    Cathedral Place, Suite 1600
    925 West Georgia Street
    Vancouver, BC V6C 3L2

Greg is both a lawyer and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) who specializes in business law, mergers and acquisitions and taxation. Greg’s combined legal, taxation and accounting background enables him to advise clients on both the commercial and taxation aspects of transactions. Clients and their financial advisers particularly value his unique ability to converse with them at a high level on financial and accounting matters.

A significant part of Greg’s practice is focused on the formation of private equity funds and M&A transactions involving private equity funds. He acts for a number of private equity clients including Fulcrum Capital Partners Inc. (formerly, HSBC Capital (Canada) Inc.), Parallel49 Equity (formerly Tricor Pacific Capital Inc.), Lighthouse Equity Partners, Highland West Capital, Stern Partners, CAI Capital Management, Beedie Capital Partners, Yellow Point Equity Partners, Angelo Gordon & Co., Wellspring Capital Management, Maxam Capital Corp. and Tallinn Capital Corp. (formerly North Point Capital).

Greg qualified as a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) in 1988 while working with Ernst & Young in Toronto. He joined Lawson Lundell in 1992 and worked in both the Business Law and Tax Groups of the firm until 1999. Between 1999 and 2004, Greg worked in Dublin, Ireland with William Fry, Solicitors, one of Ireland’s top corporate-commercial law firms, where he practiced both corporate-commercial and taxation law in the Technology and Taxation Groups of the firm. His practice in Ireland focused primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and inbound and outbound investment. Greg re-joined Lawson Lundell in 2005 upon his return to Canada.

Greg was formerly the head of the Business Services Group at Lawson Lundell which encompasses all non-litigation areas of practice in the firm.

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Greg is both a lawyer and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) who specializes in business law, mergers and acquisitions and taxation. Greg’s combined legal, taxation and accounting background enables him to advise clients on both the commercial and taxation aspects of transactions. Clients and their financial advisers particularly value his unique ability to converse with them at a high level on financial and accounting matters.

A significant part of Greg’s practice is focused on the formation of private equity funds and M&A transactions involving private equity funds. He acts for a number of private equity clients including Fulcrum Capital Partners Inc. (formerly, HSBC Capital (Canada) Inc.), Parallel49 Equity (formerly Tricor Pacific Capital Inc.), Lighthouse Equity Partners, Highland West Capital, Stern Partners, CAI Capital Management, Beedie Capital Partners, Yellow Point Equity Partners, Angelo Gordon & Co., Wellspring Capital Management, Maxam Capital Corp. and Tallinn Capital Corp. (formerly North Point Capital).

Greg qualified as a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) in 1988 while working with Ernst & Young in Toronto. He joined Lawson Lundell in 1992 and worked in both the Business Law and Tax Groups of the firm until 1999. Between 1999 and 2004, Greg worked in Dublin, Ireland with William Fry, Solicitors, one of Ireland’s top corporate-commercial law firms, where he practiced both corporate-commercial and taxation law in the Technology and Taxation Groups of the firm. His practice in Ireland focused primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and inbound and outbound investment. Greg re-joined Lawson Lundell in 2005 upon his return to Canada.

Greg was formerly the head of the Business Services Group at Lawson Lundell which encompasses all non-litigation areas of practice in the firm.

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Bar Admissions:

  • British Columbia, 1993

Affiliations:

  • Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association - Member
  • Canadian Bar Association - Member
  • Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants - Member
  • Canadian Tax Foundation - Member
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia - Member

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada for work in:

  • Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
 

Awards:

  • International Tax Review: described as being “well regarded for his work on inward investment and M&A”
  • Legal 500: described as being “well thought of” and “recommended”
  • Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory: BV Peer Review rated
  • Best Lawyers in Canada: recognized for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity law

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Experience
Experience includes:Providing tax and commercial legal advice to various Western Canada based private equity fund sponsors in relation to the formation and structuring of their private equity funds and the negotiation of fund terms with investors.Providing tax and commercial legal advice to:A consortium of investors in relation to the acquisition of British Columbia's largest fitness company.A major international mining consortium with respect to the divestment of certain of its undeveloped Canadian mining assets.A consortium of investors in relation to the reorganization of their investments in a Japanese private equity fund into an Irish holding company structureThe members of management of an aircraft service company with respect to a management buy-out of that companyVarious Canadian and international private equity funds with respect to the structuring of their investments in and divestments of various investee entities, including:The acquisition of a North American based specialty food importing and distribution businessThe making of a minority investment into an oilfield services companyThe making of a minority investment into an accounts receivable management companyThe disposition of an industrial products distribution company (natural resource sector)The disposition of a steel products processing and distribution companyThe acquisition of an industrial valve supply companyThe making of a minority investment into a building products manufacturing companyThe making of a minority investment into a wireless goods and services companyThe disposition of a plastic packaging companyThe acquisition of a food products manufacturing and distribution business and subsequent reorganizations of that businessThe acquisition of a truck tank and trailer manufacturing companyThe acquisition of a concrete products manufacturing companyThe acquisition of a heating systems manufacturing and supply companyThe making of a minority investment into a consumer products companyThe acquisition of a rail services companyThe acquisition of a cellulose mill in British ColumbiaThe acquisition of a well known Western Canada based restaurant chainThe structuring of subordinated and mezzanine loan investments in various entitiesAdvising real estate developers with respect to the structuring of their development projects and other related activities;Advising international insurance entities with respect to the tax aspects of establishing captive insurance companies in British Columbia and other Canadian based activitiesAdvising both issuing corporations and underwriters with respect to the tax aspects of various public offerings of securities
 

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Lawson Lundell LLP
https://www.lawsonlundell.com
 
Headquarters
Cathedral Place, Suite 1600
925 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 3L2
604-685-3456
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Calgary, AB

Suite 1100, 225-6th Avenue S.W.

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403-269-6900

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Kelowna, BC

460 Doyle Avenue, Suite 403

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778-738-2610

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Northwest Territories

Yellowknife, NT

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