Partner in the business law group at Torkin Manes LLP, Kobi Bessin has built a robust practice that encompasses a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, with a particular emphasis on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance, both domestic and cross-border. He has extensive experience across a wide array of industries. He capably represents a diversity of clients on both sides of the border, including entrepreneurs, owner-managers, developers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, private equity firms, merchant banks, venture capital firms, and companies in the healthcare sector. His extensive work allows him to confidently counsel his clients at all stages, while strategically leading them through mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of businesses, debt and equity financings, venture capital investments, private equity-sponsored transactions, corporate governance mandates, reorganizations, and other corporate and commercial transactions. He was called to the bars in Ontario, New York, and District of Columbia. He is a member of CBA, ABA, OBA, NYSBA, and BADC. He has been recognized by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in the corporate mid-market category and honoured as one of Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40 in 2020.
On March 11, 2019, Azelis, a leading specialty chemical supplier operating globally, announced it had acquired Chemroy, a Canadian distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients. The transaction sees Azelis acquire 100% of Chemroy Canada Holdings Inc.
