181 Bay St, Suite 4400, Brookfield Pl, Bay Wellington Twr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1988
Paul Davis is one of Canada’s leading public mergers and acquisition lawyers. He is widely recognized for providing trusted counsel on numerous high-profile proxy battles and precedent-setting contested transactions. His practice is focused on M&A, proxy fights, corporate governance, corporate finance, and business restructuring for both private and public issuers across a wide range of industries, including financial services, technology, energy, mining, and manufacturing. He leads the firm’s capital markets and securities group nationally as well as the firm’s public mergers and acquisitions practice. He is also chairman of the firm’s board of partners. He brings a unique insider’s perspective to his clients, having served as head of investment banking at a Toronto-based brokerage firm, and a senior officer of several public and private companies before returning to private practice. Recognized for success in his dealings with boards of directors, management teams, and regulatory bodies, he has served as a director of 10 public companies, including as chairman or a member of the audit, corporate governance, and special committees. He is also a prolific author and speaker in the areas of securities law and corporate governance.
Canadian courts delivered several hard-hitting decisions affecting Canadian businesses in 2019 and 2020, including the long-awaited release of the Supreme Court of Canada’s administrative law trilogy
More insolvencies and consolidations are seen for the cannabis sector in 2020; in agribusiness, food security may become more important in the wake of covid-19
On June 22, 2015, Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL), through an indirect wholly owned subsidiary, acquired all of the common shares of Allana Potash Corp. (Allana) (a company that focuses on the acquisition and development of potash assets with its principal asset being the Danakhil potash project in Ethiopia) it did not own. The transaction was valued approximately $164 million and was completed, pursuant to a court approved plan of arrangement under the <i>Business Corporations Act</i> (Ontario), for cash and securities of ICL.
