Bio

Jonathan Lampe is a partner, and has served as Co-Chair of the Corporate Securities Group and member of the Executive Committee, at Goodmans. His practice focuses on corporate and securities law in Canada and internationally, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, related financings and reorganizations, and corporate governance. He also advises entrepreneurial families and their family offices on strategic and structural matters. He is the former General Counsel to the Ontario Securities Commission, the past Chair of the Commission’s Securities Advisory Committee, and a past member of the Commission’s Senior Securities Lawyers Advisory Group and Enforcement Advisory Group. Jonathan is engaged frequently in the context of mergers and acquisitions by Canadian and international acquirors and boards and special committees of potential targets, as well as their financial advisors. Jonathan also regularly provides advice to various constituents in matters relating to the governance of public entities in the context of their ongoing operations, strategic initiatives, investigations and dissident shareholder activities. He also provides counsel to families and family offices in Canada and internationally. He has provided expert evidence in related court proceedings and has represented the Staff of the Ontario Securities Commission and market participants in regulatory proceedings before the Commission, including the Commission’s review of market timing in the mutual fund industry. His clients include Canadian and international companies across a range of industry sectors, family offices, pension funds and private equity investors.