Bio

Joel Binder is a partner in the Corporate Group with a broad corporate/securities practice. Joel is widely recognized as one of Canada’s leading corporate lawyers and has been ranked in the areas of M&A, private equity, capital markets and securities, and corporate law by The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Lexpert Special Edition: Finance and M&A, International Financial Law Review’s IFLR1000 and The Best Lawyers in Canada. Joel has over 30 years’ experience in public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate finance, and other complex corporate transactions. On the public side, he frequently represents public issuers, boards of directors, special committees, and investment dealers in connection with take-over bids, business combinations, public offerings, private placements, and governance and securities compliance matters. On the private side, Joel advises private equity and strategic buyers and sellers, and counsels’ large family-owned businesses. Joel has been a director and audit committee member of two public companies, a past member of the TSX Advisory Committee and formerly served on the Management Committee in the Toronto office.