Lawyer Profile
Konata T. Lake
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Across M&A, venture capital and private equity investments, Konata brings strategic thinking and deep knowledge to help businesses scale and investors realize their investment strategies in emerging and high-growth companies.
Konata is the head of Torys’ Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Group, is part of Torys’ M&A and Technology Groups, and serves on the firm's Executive Committee. Konata is a leader in providing legal support to startups and emerging technology companies and venture capital investors who invest in these companies. Konata regularly advises technology companies, founders, investors and other strategic and financial parties in all aspects of investing and divestiture transactions, including shareholders arrangements, majority and minority equity investments, and joint ventures. Konata has played a leading role in the firm’s relationship with burgeoning companies in Canada that are poised to effect significant change in how we do business and regularly advises the firm’s clients on mergers and acquisitions transactions involving technology companies.
Having practiced in New York, Konata provides comprehensive advice in cross-border transactions, helping clients expand their footprint in Canada, the U.S. and internationally.
OMERS Ventures and Radical Ventures as shareholders in Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Inc.’s US$3.6 billion reverse merger with Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp. to become the world’s first publicly traded pure-play photonic quantum computing company
OMERS Ventures as part of a consortium of investors in an equity financing, totaling US$275 million, of Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., one of the world's leading photonic quantum hardware providers
an institutional investor as an investor in the up to C$750 million equity round funding of Wealthsimple Inc., Canada’s leading financial innovator
Before joining Torys, Konata was a clerk to the vice-chair of the Ontario Securities Commission, where he participated in the adjudication of disputes before the commission by providing legal research and analysis to the vice chairs and OSC commissioners.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2009 (ON); 2009 (NY)