Lawyer Profile
David Forrester
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
David advises on complex corporate and securities transactions in Canada, providing strategic advice on business-critical mandates for clients across a broad range of industries.
David’s practice focuses on corporate/commercial and securities law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and corporate finance. He has acted for acquiring and target companies, boards of directors, family enterprises and controlling shareholders in both negotiated and contested transactions. David regularly advises companies, directors, shareholders and family enterprises on corporate governance, crisis management, compliance and other critical situations. He also has extensive experience acting for both issuers and investment banks in a variety of public offerings of debt and equity.
David provides ongoing advice to public companies on their disclosure, corporate governance and other corporate and securities law obligations, as well as assistance in preparing and negotiating commercial contracts and board/governance and HR-related policies and plans.
David advises key players in a wide variety of Canadian industries, including financials, information providers, retail, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, mining and metals, and government and regulatory bodies. David has played a lead role in acting for a number of Canada’s largest companies on both key strategic transactions and day-to-day matters, including the Weston group of public companies (Loblaw, George Weston and Choice Properties), Brookfield, Thomson Reuters and Sun Life Financial.
Torys acted as counsel to the special committee of Parkland Corporation in its US$9.1 billion sale to Sunoco LP
Torys is acting as counsel to Anglo American in its proposed merger of equals with Teck Resources to create a US$57 billion global critical minerals champion and one of the top five global copper producers in the world
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
Mithaq Capital, as the largest shareholder of Aimia Inc., in connection with its proxy contest to nominate six directors for election at Aimia’s annual meeting of shareholders
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2012 (ON)