Gary Fogler practises business law and has extensive experience in a variety of M&A transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations, licensing and distribution arrangements, mergers, joint ventures and cross-border transactions.
Gary has acted for corporations and partnerships in a broad array of businesses including Internet, food products, packaging, manufacturing, music, film and software tax shelters, computers, energy, entertainment, business information and financial services. Transactions include:
- income trust conversion of Alliance Grain Traders Income Fund with contemporaneous $104 million acquisition
- advising Publicis Groupe S.A. on its acquisition of In-Sync Consumer Insight Corporation
- advising Pindoff Records Sales Inc. on its sale of the Music World chain
- advising the shareholders of Obus Forme Ltd. on the sale of their business to Clairvest Group Inc.
- advising the shareholders of MIJO Corporation on the sale of their business to Digital Generation, Inc.
Gary also advises on investment into Canada, with a specialty on public and private cross-border transactions involving complex tax structures using exchangeable shares which allow Canadian sellers to defer capital gains tax on the sale of their business. Gary has acted on a number of exchangeable share transactions, including:
- advising Quanta Services, Inc. on its US$219 million acquisition of Valard Construction
- advising the Newfound Group on its £95 million reverse takeover of a Luxembourg AIM-listed company
- advising the shareholders of Solar Roofing Systems Inc. on their $18.5 million sale to Open Energy
Gary has written a number of articles on cross-border transactions and the use of exchangeable shares.
He has been a partner of the firm since 1990.
Community Involvement
- Board of Governors, Co-Chair of Insurance Committee and member of Audit Committee, Finance and Investment Committee, and Resources Committee - Mount Sinai Hospital
- Board of Directors, Chair of Legacy Sinai - Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation
- Board of Directors, Executive Committee - Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee
- Board of Directors, Chair of Discipline Committee - Oakdale Golf and Country Club
- President - Progressive Conservative Business Association
Membership/Affiliations
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Law Society of Upper Canada