333 Bay St, Suite 3400, Bay Adelaide Ctr, W Twr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2003 (ON)
Partner in a business law group, and a member of the Professional Standards and Conflicts Review Committee and the Directorships Committee at Goodmans. Practice focuses on corporate and securities law, with particular emphasis on corporate finance, corporate governance, M&A, private equity, shareholder rights and activism, and corporate recapitalizations. Regularly represents market participants, issuers, and investors in public financings and private investments of debt and equity, including IPOs and follow-up financings, and on behalf of US and offshore funds and institutional investors in Canadian capital markets transactions. Advises boards of directors of public issuers on corporate governance matters, together with buyers and sellers in M&A transactions. Routinely acts on private equity fund formation and investment activities and advises REITs in various transactions. Recognized as a leading lawyer in the Lexpert Special Edition — Finance and M&A, Chambers Canada, Best Lawyers in Canada, The Legal 500 Canada, IFLR1000 and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. Featured as a Capital Markets expert in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law. Honoured as one of Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40.
Leading infrastructure and construction materials enterprise Armtec Infrastructure Inc. and its affiliates (Armtec) completed a going-concern sale of substantially all of its assets to Armtec LP, an affiliate of Brookfield Capital Partners Fund III L.P. (Brookfield), in exchange for a release from approximately $200 million in secured debt obligations owing to Brookfield. The transaction was completed pursuant to an asset sale under the <I>Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act</I> (CCAA).
