333 Bay St, Suite 2400, Bay Adelaide Ctr, Box 20, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1999 (ON)
Sean Stevens is Co-Leader of the Firm’s Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions (CM and M&A) Group and the Chair of the Ontario Region’s Business Law Group. His practice is focused on domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate reorganizations and infrastructure projects. Clients include public and private companies, private equity funds and their investors, business owners and project sponsors and financers. Sean regularly acts for business owners and their families in connection with corporate reorganizations, governance matters, succession planning and inter-generational business transitions designed to maximize and preserve value for owners and their families or, where appropriate, assisting owners with third party liquidity transactions to realize the value of their businesses. Sean works collaboratively with financial advisors, business valuators and tax advisors to achieve the best results for the Firm’s clients. Sean is also a trusted advisor to several private equity and venture capital funds and provides strategic advice in connection with fund formation issues, negotiations with investors and ongoing governance matters, as well as on investments and dispositions by those funds.
On October 21, 2015, Concordia Healthcare Corp. (“Concordia”), a diverse healthcare company focused on legacy pharmaceutical products and orphan drugs, acquired UK-based Amdipharm Mercury Limited (“AMCo”) from Cinven Ltd, a leading European private equity firm, for approximately US$3.3 billion (the “Acquisition”) paid through a combination of cash and the issuance of 8.49 million common shares of Concordia.
City Centre Terminal Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Porter Aviation Holdings Inc. (PAHI), completed the sale of substantially all of its assets, including the passenger terminal at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (BBTCA), to Nieuport Aviation Infrastructure Partners GP (Nieuport), a consortium of Canadian and international infrastructure equity investors.
