Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2016 
Kathleen Ritchie is a partner in Gowling WLG's Toronto office and serves on the firm’s Board of Trustees. She is the past head of the Toronto office's Business Law Department and past leader of the firm's Corporate Finance, M&A and Private Equity Group. She practises securities and corporate law, and has over 25 years of experience at the firm advising on public and private M&A and corporate finance transactions, as well as securities regulatory and corporate governance matters.
Kathleen is known by her clients and colleagues for approaching her work with a great deal of intensity, integrity and loyalty. She is a strategic and innovative thinker, who likes "leading-edge, never been done before kind of work" and she thrives on solving problems and "getting the deal done."
Kathleen's M&A practice involves providing advice on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including plans of arrangement, takeover and issuer bids, asset sales, distressed M&A and other restructuring & insolvency-related transactions, for both public and private companies. Kathleen has been involved in several MI 61-101/related-party transactions, including as counsel to special committees.
