Bio

Brian Graves advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, commercial and securities law matters. Brian works primarily with clients in the mining and metals industry with a particular focus on cross-border transactions, and among other things is considered an authority on metal streaming and royalty transactions. Brian regularly acts as a trusted advisor to clients on M&A deals for Canadian and foreign clients, including take-over bids, plans of arrangement, reverse take-overs, asset and share purchases and related party transactions. In the mining and metals space, in addition to metal streams and royalties, Brian also advises on other commercial arrangements such as complex joint ventures, earn-ins, operating agreements, offtake and refining arrangements, and lending transactions. In the corporate finance area, he is frequently involved in public and private securities offerings, stock exchange listings and securities regulatory matters. Brian has published articles on numerous topics including metal streaming, public company redomicilings, take-over bids and mining disclosure, and has lectured on areas including cross-border M&A, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, dealing with multiple listed companies and directors’ duties. He has taught securities law as a visiting professor at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and as a lecturer at the University of Windsor law school, and has appeared on the faculty of the Directors College founded by McMaster University.