Lawyer Profile
Michael P. Whitcombe
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Michael Whitcombe is an exemplary business law practitioner with extensive expertise in mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. His practice focuses largely on negotiated merger and acquisition transactions (domestic and cross-border), private equity investments, strategic alliances, complex commercial arrangements and corporate governance.
Advising medium-sized and large corporations, domestic and international, and their boards of directors in connection with their operations throughout Canada, Michael has significant industry experience in the private equity, pharmaceutical, automotive, manufacturing, distribution, service, entertainment, hospitality and tourism sectors.
Michael is sessional lecturer on private equity law at Queen’s University Law School. The director of a number of Canadian corporations, he has served as the honorary solicitor for the Arthritis Society since 1996 and as a director of MLSE LaunchPad. He is a member of the OBCA and CBCA Advisory Sub-Committees to the Business Law Executive of the Canadian Bar Association (Ontario), and is a national leader of the firm’s Private Equity & Venture Capital Group.
The Ontario government recently established an advisory body called the Business Law Modernization and Burden Reduction Council.
On February 4, 2026, Thoma Bravo completed its take-private acquisition of Dayforce, Inc. (“Dayforce”) for approximately US$12.3 billion.
On January 17, 2025, funds advised by BlueMatrix Parent, LP, a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo, completed the acquisition of Quantify Labs Inc. d/b/a/ Street Context
On December 11, 2024, Trader Corporation, a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo, completed its sale to AutoScout24 GmbH.
On November 15, 2024, funds advised by SK Capital Partners, LP completed the acquisition of Spectra Confectionery Limited.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1987 (ON)