Lawyer Profile
Lindsay Balson
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Lindsay's practice covers a broad range of transactional and commercial matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and pension fund investments. She advises clients on all aspects of complex corporate transactions, including strategic mergers, divestitures, minority investments, and cross-border transactions. Lindsay routinely provides advice to pension funds and other institutional investor clients on their private equity, infrastructure, real estate, hedge fund and other investments.
In addition to her transactional work, Lindsay's experience includes advising clients on all aspects of their corporate and commercial arrangements, including reorganizations and other corporate restructurings, and complex shareholder, partnership, joint venture, and other commercial agreements.
Lindsay has represented domestic and international clients in the life sciences, energy, technology, manufacturing, food, beverage and agribusiness, and retail sectors, among others. She has completed a secondment to the head office of one of the Firm's large retail clients, where she worked on a wide variety of corporate, commercial and compliance matters.
Various pension plans and other institutional investors on their private equity, debt, real estate, and infrastructure fund investments
GMM Pfaudler Ltd. on its acquisition of Professional Mixing Equipment Inc. (MixPro)
Founder and investors on sale of 80% of Knix Wear Inc. to Essity for US$320-million
CyberGuard, a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital, on its acquisition of Control Gap
TreeHouse Foods on its acquisition of pickled product brand assets, including Bick's pickles, from J. M. Smucker
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2014 (ON)