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A. Wojtek Baraniak Toronto Lawyer

A. Wojtek Baraniak *

Partner Fasken
A successful business transaction requires understanding and achieving our client’s business and legal objectives.
Jurisdiction Ontario, 2006
Language(s) English, French, Polish
Office(s) Toronto
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Overview

Wojtek is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity and Private Client Services Groups. His practice focuses on business law, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings and reorganizations.  Wojtek has extensive experience working with public and private clients on numerous acquisitions and dispositions, cross border transactions, partnership and joint ventures and the procurement, sale and distribution of a variety of products and services.

Wojtek represents leading insurance, food, retail, health and manufacturing businesses in Canada, as well as provides counsel to private entrepreneurs and private family offices. He works with a number of growing companies and has advised them on financings, acquisitions, dispositions, and growth capital transactions.

Wojtek regularly advises insurance brokerages and agencies and has significant experience with insurance brokerage acquisitions and dispositions.

He also has extensive experience working with family held businesses, advising them on succession planning, governance, growth strategies, reorganizations and liquidity events.

Wojtek speaks French and Polish and works with Polish clients seeking to do business in Canada. He is also a Member of the Canadian Bar Association and Ontario Bar Association, and is a member of the editorial board of the Business Law Reports.

Achievements

  • Recognized as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer, Thomson Reuters stand-out lawyers 2026
  • Recognized Repeatedly in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Corporate Commercial Law, Lexpert 2026
  • Recognized in the Lexpert Special Edition – Finance and M&A, Lexpert 2024
  • Recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Private Equity, Lexpert 2024
  • Recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Corporate Mid-Market, Lexpert 2022
  • Recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Corporate Mid-Market , Lexpert 2020
  • Recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as Repeatedly Recommended in Corporate Mid-Market, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2024 to 2006

Experience

  • Hims & Hers completed the acquisition of Livewell, [Deal - Hims&Hers], Acquisition Livewell by Hims & Hers.
  • Edesa Biotech completes US$15 million private placement, [Deal - Edesa Biotech, Inc.], Canadian clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company closes offering of Series B-1 convertible preferred shares and common shares priced at-the-market under Nasdaq Rules.
  • Arthur J. Gallagher Canada Limited acquires Encore Insurance Services Inc., [Deal - Arthur J. Gallagher Canada Limited], Leading provider of insurance, risk management, and consulting services acquires Canadian retail insurance brokerage.
  • Arthur J. Gallagher Canada Limited acquires Dawson & Keenan Insurance Ltd., [Deal - Arthur J. Gallagher Canada Limited], Leading provider of insurance, risk management, and consulting services acquires Canadian retail insurance brokerage.
  • Gallagher Benefit Services (Canada) Group Inc. acquires HFI Benefits Inc., [Deal - Gallagher Benefit Services (Canada) Group Inc.], Leading provider of benefits, HR and organization consulting services acquires Canadian individual and group life insurance brokerage.
  • Gallagher Benefit Services (Canada) Group Inc. acquires Brunswick Financial Group Ltd., [Deal - Gallagher Benefit Services (Canada) Group Inc.], Leading provider of benefits, HR and organization consulting services acquires Canadian individual and group life insurance brokerage.
  • Gallagher Re completes acquisition of Ontario-based MGB Re, [Deal - Gallagher Re Inc.], Reinsurance division of global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm acquires reinsurance company.
  • Edesa Biotech secures up to C$23 million in funding under the Federal Government’s Strategic Innovation Fund for pivotal clinical study, [Deal - Edesa Biotech, Inc.], Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company secures funding for Phase 3 clinical study of a first-in-class therapeutic candidate.
  • Edesa Biotech secures C$10 million revolving line of credit to support completion of government-funded clinical study, [Deal - Edesa Biotech, Inc.], Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company secures credit facility to support government-funded Phase 3 clinical study.

Career & Education

Education

  • LLB University of Ottawa
  • BA, Political Science McGill University

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, Ontario Bar Association
  • Member, Fasken Martineau Law School Liaison Committee

News

  • Financial Post quotes Wojtek Baraniak in an article on advice to enterprising families looking to sell a business, 3/28/2023
  • Financial Post quotes Wojtek Baraniak in an article on how to prepare, enter into and successfully conclude an acquisition, 3/21/2023
  • Financial Post quotes Wojtek Baraniak in an article on private equity investment, 8/30/2022
  • Fasken Recognized at the LMG Life Sciences Awards, 9/26/2019

Publications

  • Recent Developments Related to Capital Applicable to Federally Regulated Financial Institutions, 2/4/2009
  • Sponsored Demutualization Comes to Canada, 8/5/2008
  • Sponsored Demutualization Comes to Canada, 6/1/2008
  • Significant Changes To Canada's Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Law, 4/1/2007
Bulletin Recent Developments Related to Capital Applicable to Federally Regulated Financial Institutions Financial Institutions and Services Bulletin
Article Sponsored Demutualization Comes to Canada Canadian Insurance Regulation Reporter, Volume 1 No.3