Lawyer Profile

Christine L. Vogelesang

Toronto, Ontario

Christine L. Vogelesang

Overview

With deep experience helping registrants navigate Canada’s complex securities regulatory landscape and relationships with Canadian securities regulators, Christine brings robust insight to participants in the capital markets.

Christine maintains a broad registrant regulation and compliance practice where she advises on registration, self-regulatory organization, and marketplace/exchange issues, including in the context of mergers and acquisitions that impact firms that are registered in Canada under securities/commodity futures/derivatives laws.

Torys acted as counsel to TD Bank in the provision of Canadian securities law advice in connection with its acquisition of Headlands Tech Global Markets, LLC, a Chicago-based quantitative fixed income trading company

Brookfield Corporation in its division into two publicly-traded companies, including cross-listings on both the TSX and NYSE and the distribution of a 25% interest in its asset management business to create a leading pure-play global alternative asset management business

TD Bank Group, as Canadian counsel, in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Cowen Inc. to create an integrated North American dealer and expand its U.S investment banking business

Scotiabank in its C$2.585 billion acquisition of MD Financial Management Inc. from the Canadian Medical Association

Scotiabank in its C$950 million acquisition of Jarislowsky, Fraser Limited, one of Canada's leading independent investment firms

Cumberland Partners in its business combination with Norrep Capital Management Ltd. and Perron & Partners Wealth Management Corp.

Practice Areas

  • Corporate & Commercial Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1998 (ON)