Daniel Batista

Daniel Batista has a broad transactional practice that includes advising boards of directors, special committees and management of clients on a wide range of strategic, corporate and regulatory matters. He provides counsel on mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, corporate governance matters, stock exchange requirements and other regulatory matters, including compliance with securities laws and disclosure requirements. Daniel's practice is particularly focused on public M&A, in which he has extensive experience, though he also has considerable experience in both private M&A and corporate finance. He has acted for both small and large national and multinational corporations in connection with a wide variety of transactions of varying sizes.

Daniel joined Fasken Martineau in 2004 as an associate. Prior to that, he was an associate with another leading Toronto law firm. From September 2001 to September 2002 he served as Law Clerk to Madame Justice Louise Arbour of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Selected Experience

• First Uranium receives $50 million from Gold Wheaton Barbados Corporation as 1st tranche payment of gold stream transaction
• Azure Dynamics closes $25 million private placement

News

• Fasken Martineau comments on the Supreme Court's decision regarding BCE Inc.

Membership/Affiliations

• Canadian Bar Association
• Ontario Bar Association