William K. Orr

Partner

William K. Orr focuses his practice on corporate governance and has acted for many boards of directors and independent committees of boards. Bill specializes in securities regulation including multi-national transactions in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries. He is a recognized expert in public and private financing, private placements, takeover bids, mergers and acquisitions, going-private transactions, corporate governance, restructurings, and stock exchange and securities enforcement issues. His clients include boards and independent committees of boards of directors, public companies, investment dealers and institutional investors.

Selected Experience

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Board of Directors, Institute of Corporate Directors
Senior Securities Legal Advisory Group, Ontario Securities Commission

Community Involvement

Bill has served on a number of community and charitable boards of directors, including:

President, Family Service Association of Metropolitan Toronto
Chair, Board of Trustees, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Chair, Board of Directors, Dellcrest Children's Centre
Member, College of Electors of the University of Toronto
Director and Honourary Counsel, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award – Young Canadians Challenge

Honours and Awards

Consistently named one of the country's top lawyers in Corporate Commercial, Corporate Finance and M&A in the annual Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada published by Lexpert/American Lawyer Media
Internationally recognized in the area of Corporate Governance in Who's Who Legal's The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
Listed and rated in Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers for Business as a Corporate/M&A lawyer
A Leading Lawyer in Canada in the area of Capital Markets in the International Financial Law Review

Toronto
416 865 4360
416 364 7813 fax

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Montréal
514 397 5246
514 397 7600 fax