Bio

Christopher Besant is a co-Lead of the firm’s Financial Services Group and has a national and international profile. A specialist in lending and corporate finance, private mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and corporate governance, he has extensive experience in advising in large institutional and high value added situations. Prior to joining Gardiner Roberts, he was a partner in the Toronto and New York offices of a leading global law firm, where as a member of the global banking practice, he led the Canadian Financial Services/Restructuring practice, and served on the global steering committee of the firm’s financial restructuring and automotive practices. Earlier in his career, he was a partner of a national firm based in Canada where he co-founded its Financial Restructuring Group, and prior to that worked in an Australian office of an international law firm.