Lawyer Profile
Josh Lavine
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
With significant M&A and capital markets experience, Josh provides practical insight to a wide spectrum of clients on their most complex and transformational transactions.
Josh practices a broad range of corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. He advises public companies, private equity sponsors and institutional investors on complex corporate transactions. Josh also has significant experience advising issuers, investment banks and investors in public offerings and domestic and cross-border capital markets transactions. His experience covers a broad range of industries, including financial services, energy and infrastructure, retail and technology.
Josh also routinely provides guidance to public company clients on ongoing corporate governance and securities law matters.
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
Torys acted as counsel to Brookfield Renewable Partners in its unit split and special distribution of class A shares to create Brookfield Renewable Corporation, a new dual-listed Canadian corporation, which won the Canadian Law Awards' 2021 Capital Markets Deal of the Year
Clairvest in the sale of its portfolio company F12.net, one of the largest privately held managed IT service providers in Canada
Top Aces in its C$200 million inaugural private placement of 9% senior unsecured notes
Brookfield Business Partners in the simplification of its corporate structure through the reorganization of Brookfield Business Partners L.P. and Brookfield Business Corporation into one publicly traded Canadian corporation
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2009 (ON); 2012 (NY)