CANADA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Grant McGlaughlin, Sean Stevens and Claire Gowdy Fasken Fasken is one of Canada’s largest business law firms. Its private equity group comprises more than 200 lawyers, offering strategic advice through every stage of the investment cycle from fund formation, LBOs and take-private transactions, co-investments, portfolio add-ons, tuck-ins and other M&A through to liquidity exits via strategic sale, auction processes or IPO. The group regularly acts for Canadian and in - ternational private equity funds, pension funds and other institutional investors, as well as a broad range of portfolio companies and founder-owned and -op -
erated businesses. Fasken has renowned industry experience across the industrial, technology, retail, fi - nancial services, infrastructure and projects, mining, and energy and climate sectors, amongst others. As a full-service firm, Fasken also offers leading prac - tice groups covering fund formation, M&A, banking, capital markets, governance, ESG, tax, competition, marketing and foreign investment, regulatory, privacy and cybersecurity, labour and employment, litigation, and insolvency and restructuring, making the firm a true “one-stop shop” for clients’ legal needs.
Authors
Grant McGlaughlin is co-leader of Fasken’s national private equity group and practises in the areas of M&A, private equity, corporate finance, governance and sensitive and complex transactions. He provides
Sean Stevens is co-leader of Fasken’s national capital markets and mergers and acquisitions group. His practice is focused on domestic and
cross border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate reorganisations and infrastructure projects. Clients include public and private companies, private equity funds and their investors, business owners and project sponsors and financers. Sean is a trusted adviser to several private equity and venture capital funds and provides strategic advice in connection with fund formation issues, negotiations with investors and ongoing governance matters, as well as on investments and dispositions by those funds.
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 strategic advice to corporate clients, their senior management and boards of directors. He also has deep experience in complex corporate transactions, including public offerings and private placements, insolvency-based transactions and reorganisations, and domestic and cross-border M&A.
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