Bio

Doug advises public and private companies on M&A, financing and corporate/governance matters. His M&A experience includes public take-over bids, share and asset acquisitions and divestitures, privatizations and corporate restructurings. His financing experience includes domestic and cross-border public and private offerings of equity and debt, initial public offerings and other securities offerings and monetizations. His clients have included Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Morgan Stanley, Dream Unlimited Corp., Dream Office REIT, Dream Industrial REIT and Dream Global REIT. Doug is recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, Lexpert, Who’s Who Legal Canada and Best Lawyers in Canada. Doug has lectured on securities law, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters at universities and private conferences. Doug is a former member of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commissio