Alex Macmillan

Alex Macmillan

Alex MacMillan is an Associate at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto. His practice focuses on domestic and international general corporate and securities law transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital market financings, private equity and other business transactions. He also advises clients on corporate governance and securities regulatory matters, including representing special committees of boards and the continuous disclosure obligations of public issuers. Alex also has experience in the structuring, development and establishment of retail structured products where he has acted for both issuers and agents and has significant experience in Canada’s special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sector acting as counsel to SPACs and underwriters on offerings and targets on various qualifying transactions. Alex was previously based in the Firm’s New York office, where he developed cross-border transactional expertise focusing on Canada/U.S. cross-border M&A transactions and financings. Prior to law school, he worked as an analyst at a boutique investment bank in Ottawa.

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