Bio

Ross Bentley practises securities and corporate law with a focus on domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions and corporate finance. As counsel to acquirors, targets, boards and special committees, Ross has acted on many high profile domestic and cross-border take-over bids, plans of arrangement and mergers and has acted for several issuers on high profile proxy contests. Ross has extensive experience in a wide variety of equity and debt offerings, including project financing and offerings of investment grade, subordinated and high-yield debt. He also assists issuers in establishing shelf financing programs both for domestic offerings as well as cross-border offerings under the Canada/US multi-jurisdictional offering system. Ross has acted for issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders on offerings involving issuers in the airline, pipeline and energy infrastructure, agribusiness, energy services, energy exploration and development, chartered banking and railroad sectors. He also regularly advises issuers, boards and special committees in connection with corporate governance matters and issuers in respect of continuous disclosure obligations, stock exchange matters and general corporate matters. Ross has experience advising clients on ESG matters, including in respect of corporate governance and compliance, disclosure, and sustainable finance.