Lawyer Profile
Florence Simard
Montréal, Québec
Overview
Known for her efficiency and strong business sense, Florence advises Canadian, U.S. and international clients on a variety of complex corporate transactions.
Florence’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint venture agreements as well as various real estate and infrastructure investments and dispositions. Florence advises on complex and high-profile cross-border and domestic transactions for a wide variety of clients across diverse industries, including entrepreneurs, private equity funds, pension funds and other institutional investors.
Florence serves on the board of directors for Préma-Québec and is chair of both the Montréal Student/Stagiaire Recruitment Committee and the Montréal Student/Stagiaire Evaluation Committee at Davies.
Acted for the shareholders of Risk Control Technologies Inc., Toronto-based leading provider of risk management and loss control solutions to the insurance industry, in the sale of a 100% interest to Duck Creek Technologies Inc.
Acted for Nasdaq-listed Bit Digital, Inc. in its acquisition of Enovum Data Centers Corp., a Montreal-based owner, operator, and developer of high-performance computing datacenters.
Acted for Spring Lane Capital, a private equity firm that provides growth financing to Cleantech companies in the Advanced Energy, Waste, Water and Food markets, in its investment in an urban agricultural-tech company Belle Spring Farms Inc.
Acted for Hydro-Québec in connection with the development and construction of an electrolyzer facility with a capacity of approximately 90 MW, making it one of the most powerful electrolyzers in the world to produce green hydrogen.
Acted for Enovum Data Centers, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bit Digital, Inc., in the acquisition of land and a building for a build-to-suit 5MW Tier 3 data center expansion project in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, known as MTL2, for CAD $33.5 million.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2011 (QC)