Mike Axford Bio

Mike leads the Corporate Group in the Firm’s Vancouver Office and practices in both the Corporate/Commercial group and the Banking and Finance group. As a leading corporate lawyer, Mike regularly advises Canadian, US and international corporate and institutional clients with respect to (a) corporate matters, private mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and sale transactions, reorganizations and amalgamations, and venture capital transactions in all industry sectors with a particular focus in both the Mining and the Technology sectors, and (b) all aspects of Canadian and cross-border secured lending transactions including acquisition, term and operating financing. He has extensive transactional experience having advised clients involved in transactions in these practice areas for over 35 years. Mike is also very active in both local and cross-border matters and regularly acts for numerous Canadian and US-based institutional lenders providing credit facilities to corporations throughout Canada primarily in the Technology and Life Sciences space and acts for corporate borrowers in all sectors. Additionally, he is frequently retained by major US law firms to advise on the Canadian aspects of both corporate and lending transactions. Mike also acts as external general counsel as a long-standing trusted advisor for a number of Canadian, US and global corporations by negotiating transactions and providing or coordinating advice in all areas of Canadian corporate law.