Lawyer Profile
Robin Burns
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Robin's practice covers a broad range of commercial and transactional work, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, private equity and institutional investments.
Robin has experience acting for domestic and international clients in a variety of industries, such as food and beverage (including the plant-based and alternative proteins sector), technology and life sciences. In addition, she routinely provides pro-bono legal advice to a number of charitable and not-for-profit organizations.
In 2018, Robin completed a secondment within the medical device division of a large multinational life sciences company, where she advised on commercial arrangements and acted as the Canadian project manager on a global divestiture of the company's blood glucose monitoring business to private equity.
J.M. Smucker on its US$305-million divestiture of its Voortman brand to Second Nature Brands, a CapVest Partners portfolio company
COFRA Holding on its acquisition of Ontario Plants Propagation Limited from Sunridge Partners
GMS Inc. on its C$196-million acquisition of Yvon Building Supplies and its affiliates
World Wide Technology Holding Co. LLC on its acquisition of Softchoice Corporation with an enterprise value of C$1.8-billion
Schlesinger Group, a portfolio company of Gauge Capital, on its acquisition of Methodify and AskingCanadians
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2015 (ON)