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M&A and transactional lawyers.
Acquisitions, divestitures, financings and the commercial agreements around them, for buyers, sellers, investors and lenders. The diligence runs on the same platform we built for it.
How we help
Deal lawyers with their own diligence engine.
Led by Rajah Lehal, who trained in the corporate group at Stikeman Elliott, our lawyers act on share and asset purchases, mergers, seed and venture rounds, secured lending and private placements.
The slow parts of a deal, like reading the data room, building disclosure schedules and checking every agreement for change of control and assignment, run on Diligence Monster. A lawyer reviews everything it finds before it reaches you, and we give you a number before any work starts.
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representative matters, from sub-$1MM acquisitions to a $20MM merger of equals.
Representative matters
Some of the deals we've worked on.
Acquisitions, divestitures and mergers
- For the purchaser in two acquisitions (valued at more than $2MM) of two British online corporations specializing in applied sciences
- For the purchaser, in the acquisition of a corporation specializing in the research and manufacture of environmentally sustainable consumer packaged products
- For the purchaser in a commercial property acquisition of an amusement facility, valued at over $5MM
- For a software development company in the asset sale transaction to an American-based digital product design studio
- For the company in the medical services industry in a series of internal share transfer transactions, valued at $0.6MM
- For a large Canadian server hosting company to negotiate a shareholder exit
- For the acquirer of a Calgary-based consumer packaged goods company
- For the acquirer, a German entity, in the purchase of a consumer packaged goods company valued at $2MM
- For the purchaser in the acquisition of a nightclub valued under $1MM
- For the purchaser in acquisition of a hair salon valued at <$0.1MM
- For the purchaser in the acquisition of a jewelry business valued at $2MM
- For the vendor of a retail food products business valued at <$0.5MM
- For the vendor for a $8MM divestiture of shares in an e-commerce company
- For the vendor in a divestiture of a BVI company's consulting firm subsidiary to an acquirer in Quebec for $1MM
- For the purchaser in a $5MM acquisition of a Quebec medical services company, simultaneous bank financing, and subsequent amalgamation
- For the acquirer of a $0.5MM technology company from a leading Canadian venture capital company and MaRS
- For the acquirer of a $0.6MM food processing business using an asset purchase agreement
- For a Canadian financial services company in a series of acquisitions to “roll up” small businesses in the same space (acquisition value <$1MM in each case)
- For a technology company engaged in a merger of equals with a company of the same size with a simultaneous financing from Canadian, New York, and Russian investors (by amalgamation into a newly formed entity, with a $20MM value on the merged entities)
- For a Canadian technology company in a series of acquisitions in circumstances of heated competition to “roll up” small businesses in the same space (acquisitions were a combination of asset purchase, share purchase and revenue sharing, acquisition value <$1MM in each case)
- For a sales consultancy in a management buy-out transaction
Financings
- For the issuer, an "Internet of Things" manufacturing company, in a corporate finance transaction to issue convertible debentures valued at $0.5MM
- For the lender in several tranches of secured financings to an e-learning company
- For a lender for a series of loans with a principal amount of over $1.2MM
- For a national venture capital fund on a $0.6MM seed round of financing of a Y Combinator-funded technology company
- For the issuer in a $0.7MM seed round investment into a technology company by a major seed stage investor (among others)
- For the majority investor of the issuer on a $2MM seed round of financing into a marketing technology company by a venture capital company
- For a technology company issuing approximately $0.3MM in debentures in a seed round to Canadian and U.S. angel investors
- For the lender in the follow-on investment into a business featured on a popular Canadian TV show
- For a US law firm in connection with their UK client's $3MM investment into a technology company
- For the issuer in a $0.2MM angel round financing in a home furnishings company
- For the issuer in a $1.5MM investment in a 3D graphics company
- For the general partner in a $0.25MM private equity financing and structuring of a GP-LP agreement
- For the investor on a $0.5MM private placement into an emerging privately-held WiMAX-based telecommunications company
- For the issuer in connection with a $15MM private placement for a privately-held power development company
- For a venture capital investor who, together with a major U.S. microprocessor manufacturer invested $1.1MM into a technology company
Commercial agreements and structuring
- For the distributor of portable electronic devices used in the healthcare industry in the drafting and negotiation of a distribution agreement
- For a real estate developer in the drafting of a purchase agreement of a mall complex held by a trust company
- For an international financial institution for the negotiation of a software outsourcing agreement
- For a high-profile Toronto fashion label that designs and supplies clothing to some of Canada's top musicians in the establishment of a corporate entity and on trademarking matters
- For the initial investors in the establishment of a commercial real estate investment fund
- For the GP to establish a Limited Partnership with over $0.5MM in venture capital assets
- For a family to establish a Family Trust with assets of over $2.5MM
- For two foreign banks establishing banking operations in Canada
- For a Fortune 500 software development company to prepare documentation for over a dozen projects with high profile clients
- For the limited partners in a limited partnership with real estate assets of over $6.3MM
- For various corporations engaging in corporate reorganizations for tax and estate-planning purposes
- For shareholders of various corporations for the settlement of shareholder disputes
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