Andrea is a global co-head of Dentons’ Private Equity group. She brings business acumen and clarity to complex M&A and financing transactions in the technology sector. According to Chambers Canada, Andrea is “an extremely responsive lawyer with a great deal of commercial and practical knowledge” and “she’s calm under pressure and responsive.” Andrea has two decades of experience leading acquisitions of private targets for PE and strategic buyers, take-privates and other public M&A transactions, IPOs, and some of the largest VC transactions in Canada. She is a skilled negotiator and has helped to develop novel structures and approaches for Canadian and cross-border transactions. Andrea has been tapped to serve on advisory committees for the Ontario Securities Commission, the Toronto Stock Exchange and to the Ontario Government on business law modernization. Andrea has extensive boardroom and governance experience, and has served as a director or officer of public, private and not-for-profit corporations. She has served on Dentons’ Global Board and for many years on Dentons’ Canada Region Board.
Complete Innovations, a provider of fleet telematics and mobile workforce technology, has received an investment from funds managed by Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC. The investment, which is the second institutional financing since Complete Innovations’ inception in 2000, provides liquidity to shareholders of Complete Innovations, including its prior institutional investor, Symmetric Capital, and additional capital to further accelerate the company’s growth.
Patheon Inc. completed a court-approved statutory plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act under which Patheon was acquired for US$9.32 per share in cash resulting in a total enterprise value for Patheon of approximately US$1.98 billion.
