Richard Steinberg is the National Chair of Fasken Martineau's Securities and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group and practices securities law with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. In the mergers and acquisitions area, Richard has been lead counsel to both acquirer and target companies in numerous take overs, both negotiated and unsolicited, and negotiated merger transactions. He also regularly acts as counsel to investment dealers on mergers and acquisitions and advises special committees of public company boards of directors. Richard's other principal areas of practice are corporate finance where he has acted for both issuers and underwriters in numerous public and private financings, including cross-border offerings. In addition, Richard regularly advises private and public equity funds and the significant investors in such funds.
Richard is a member of the Senior Securities Legal Advisory Group, which consists of a group of senior securities and corporate law practitioners who meet on a quarterly basis with the Chair and General Counsel of the Ontario Securities Commission to discuss topical securities issues. Richard is a former member of the Securities Advisory Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission, which provides advice to the Commission on a variety of matters including legislative and policy initiatives and capital markets trends.
Membership/Affiliations
- Member, Senior Securities Legal Advisory Group of the Ontario Securities Commission
- Former Member, Securities Advisory Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission