Lawyer Profile
Kevin Kyte
Montréal, Québec
Overview
Kevin Kyte is a partner in the Corporate Group. His practice focuses primarily on domestic and international cross-border private and public mergers & acquisitions, securities, governmental requests for proposals and contracts, foreign investment and regulatory issues in business and financing transactions, including joint ventures, outsourcing, private placements, privatizations, reorganizations, corporate governance and corporate support on insolvencies.
Kevin has over 30 years of extensive experience servicing clients in many industries, including infrastructure, energy, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical, pulp and paper, aluminum, steel, construction, heavy equipment manufacturers, engineering, mining, technology, Voice over IP and software. In addition to private M&A, his work has a particular emphasis on commercial matters, including T's & C's, limitations of liability, procurement, Incoterms, JV agreements and language laws.
Kevin's work experience also includes working on global cross-border transactions, namely in the United States, Europe, Australia, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean.
Kevin is the Chair of the Montréal office's Knowledge Management & Legal Innovation Committee and a member of the firm's IT Priority Board.
He is a member of the Quebec Bar and the Canadian Bar Association (Corporate Commercial Law section). He is Vice-Chair of the Market Trends Subcommittee of the M&A Committee (Business Law Section) of the American Bar Association. He was Co-Chair of the 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 Canadian Private Target M&A Deal Points Studies, issue group leader of the US Private Deal Point Studies, and co-lead of the working group to update closing conditions on the proposed revision to the ABA Model Asset Purchase Agreement.
He often co-authors legal posts to highlight the key findings reported by the annual Canadian and US Private Target M&A Deal Points Studies published by the ABA.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1990 (QC)