Bio

Graham King is a partner in the Corporate and Capital Markets Group. He is the national leader of BLG's Private Company Group and has served as manager of the firm's Corporate & Commercial Group in Toronto. He is recognized as a leading Canadian business lawyer with extensive transactional experience and expertise in complex domestic and international mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, corporate/commercial matters and joint ventures. Graham acts for domestic and international companies and investment funds, family offices and investors conducting or establishing business operations in Canada in a broad range of industries. As a trusted advisor, he counsels vendors, purchasers, corporate directors and boards, shareholders and other business stakeholders with a practical, strategic, dynamic and solutions-based approach. He is frequently published in academic journals, print and electronic media on a variety of corporate, governance, fiduciary and business law-related matters. Graham has served as a director/governor of business corporations, not-for-profit entities and charitable foundations, and has taught Advanced Mergers and Acquisitions as an adjunct professor at one of Canada's preeminent law schools. Within BLG, Graham has been awarded “Mentor of the Year" in recognition of his ongoing mentorship and development of students and associates. He was a long-standing member of the firm's Monitoring and Admissions Committee for the Partnership. Prior to the practice of law, Graham was part of the Corporate and Investment Banking Group at one of Canada's largest investment dealers, and held senior positions in the investment management industry.