Lawyer Profile
Richard J. Balfour
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Richard Balfour is a senior lawyer with extensive experience leading corporate and securities transactions both domestically and internationally.
Richard’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law, and he has substantial experience as lead counsel in both Canadian and international public and private mergers and acquisitions, and public and private offerings of securities, including privatizations and demutualizations. He also has deep experience advising securities regulators and governments on regulation of securities markets, including legislative drafting.
Richard is a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Canadian Securities Transition Office in the implementation of national securities regulation and he was a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation in Canada.
Richard taught “The Law and Finance of Mergers and Acquisitions” at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and "International Securities Transactions" at the Osgoode Hall Law School's Business LLM Program. In addition, he was formerly an assistant professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he taught corporate and property law.
In the community, Richard is Chair of The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall and sits on the Advisory Board of the Canadian Art Foundation.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1980 (ON); 2000 (ENG/WALES)