Michael J. Lang

Michael Lang is a senior partner with 40 years' experience practising corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and public company compliance matters. Mr. Lang has served on and acted as counsel to several “blue ribbon” committees examining securities regulatory policy issues, including the Investment Dealers Association of Canada’s Committee on Take-Over Bid Regulation (Zimmerman Committee).

Mr. Lang has handled numerous national and cross-border M&A transactions for Canadian and foreign clients. He has counselled acquirors, target companies, controlling shareholders and institutional investors on take-over bids, issuer bids, going-private transactions, related-party transactions and business combinations.

Mr. Lang has counselled special committees of directors in reviewing and negotiating insider bids, going-private transactions, management buy-outs, reorganizations, arrangements and related-party transactions. He represents financial advisors in advisory, valuation, fairness opinion and acquisition/divestiture assignments.

He has also represented issuers and underwriters in national, cross-border and international public offerings and private placements, and has counselled market participants on regulatory investigations and enforcement matters.

From 1982 to 1983, he was seconded to the Ontario Securities Commission as staff counsel and as legal advisor to the chairman of the commission.