Lawyer Profile
Michael Hickey
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Michael advises clients in a wide variety of capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings, private equity and other business transactions, with an emphasis on the representation of public and private issuers and the investment banks advising such companies. He acts on transactions involving a wide range of industry sectors, including technology, financial institutions and financial services, health care, mining, power generation and consumer products. He provides ongoing advice to a variety of public issuers regarding corporate governance (including board advisory and special committee mandates) and continuous disclosure obligations and also provides strategic advice to clients on environmental, social and governance considerations in connection with financings, sustainable investment transactions and ongoing disclosure and reporting obligations.
Michael spent over a year in the Firm's New York office, where he focused on Canada/U.S. cross-border M&A as well as corporate finance and private equity transactions, while providing Canadian corporate advice to both Canadian and foreign clients conducting business or offerings in Canada. Michael recently completed serving as a member of the Firm's Student Committee.
Before joining Blakes, Michael worked in the legal department of one of the Firm's foreign investment banking clients.
Leading the Blakes team advising ECN Capital on its C$1.9-billion take-private acquisition by an investor group led by Warburg Pincus LLC
ECN Capital Corp. in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Service Finance Company, LLC, to Truist Bank for proceeds of approximately US$2.05-billion and the subsequent payment of a C$7.50 per share (US$1.5-billion, in aggregate) special distribution to ECN Capital's common shareholders by way of return of capital
ECN Capital Corp. in connection with Skyline Champion's C$185-million strategic PIPE investment in ECN Capital by way of issuance of common shares and mandatory convertible preferred shares and the establishment of a strategic joint venture captive finance company in connection with such investment
Advising ABC Technologies Holdings Inc. in connection with its take-private transaction led by Apollo Global and Oaktree Capital
Advising Cerberus Capital Management in connection with its sale of its majority stake in ABC Technologies Holdings Inc. to funds managed by Apollo Global and the sale of the remainder of its stake to funds managed by Oaktree Capital
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2009 (ON)