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From major transactions to day-to-day operations, we have the breadth of experience to help with clients’ most complex business requirements. As trusted partners and advisors, we know our clients’ businesses and our relationships are long-term.
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Overview

We tailor expertise to suit your business needs, whether it involves completing a major transaction, starting a new venture, negotiating an important contract or expanding operations in a new region.

Fasken advises clients on the wide array of legal issues arising from their pursuit of strategic and commercial success, from day-to-day operations through to strategic initiatives and complex transactions that transform the business.

Having a legal team with the right expertise and experience on your side is essential for your business. Our corporate/commercial lawyers bring legal excellence, applied in a practical and business-oriented way, to the needs of our clients.

We advise on all aspects of a business’s operations and strategy, including starting new ventures, ensuring corporate governance compliance, conducting strategic planning, raising debt or equity financing, buying or selling all or part of a business or carrying out corporate reorganizations.

The clients we work with range from entrepreneurs to multinational corporations in a wide range of industries. Fasken has long advised family businesses, private and public corporations and partnerships, professional service firms, governments and non-profit organizations of all sizes. Many clients view their Fasken lawyers as general counsel who work with the leaders and owners of their businesses on an ongoing basis, and who understand their concerns. For clients with in-house general or corporate counsel, we work closely with in-house legal teams to provide additional expertise or functional resources, whatever their requirements may be.

We also work with foreign clients who need local counsel in Canada, the United Kingdom or South Africa. We have a wide-ranging network of contacts who help wherever you do business and we often work with teams of lawyers around the world to meet client objectives on international matters. We have lawyers who practice common law and civil law; many of us are bilingual and some are trilingual.

Our corporate/commercial lawyers are also members of other industry and practice area subgroups, lending the team an array of deep legal expertise in a wide variety of industries and practice areas.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate Governance, Governance standards are constantly evolving. Stay ahead of the curve with the help of Fasken.
  • The Organization Of Business Law In Africa (OHADA), As an international firm, Fasken has one of the largest legal teams dedicated to Africa, including within the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) Space. Born of the political and economic will to enhance the legal system, the OHADA’s objective is to create a moder...

Achievements

Team

Primary Contacts
  • Sarah Gingrich, Partner | CO-LEADER, CAPITAL MARKETS AND MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS (CM AND M&A), Calgary, AB, +1 587 233 4103, [email protected]
  • Sean S. Stevens, Partner | Co-Leader, Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions (CM and M&A), Toronto, ON, +1 416 868 3352, [email protected]
  • Gesta A. Abols, Partner | Co-Leader, cross border and international practice, Toronto, ON, +1 416 943 8978, [email protected]
  • Jean-Pierre Chamberland, Partner | Capital Markets, Montréal, QC, +1 514 397 5186, [email protected]
  • Samuel Li, Partner | Mergers & Acquisitions, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4890, [email protected]
  • Caitlin Rose, Partner | Co-Leader, Private Equity, Montréal, QC, +1 514 397 5277, [email protected]
  • John M. Sabetti, Partner | Mergers & Acquisitions, Toronto, ON, +1 416 865 4455, [email protected]
  • Michael Teubes, Partner | Mergers & Acquisitions, Johannesburg, +27 11 586 6072, [email protected]
  • Kareen A. Zimmer, Partner | Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services Regulatory, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4775, [email protected]

Experience

  • Strand Hanson advises IFX (UK) Ltd on its acquisition of Argentex Group PLC under the UK Takeover Code, [Deal - Strand Hanson Limited], Recommended Scheme of Arrangement under the UK Takeover Code.
  • Blue Jay Gold Corp. enters into a binding share purchase agreement with Tincorp Metals Inc., [Deal - Blue Jay Gold Corp.], Blue Jay Gold Corp acquires Skukum Gold Project in the Yukon.
  • The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development completes C$3.85 million equity investment in Euro Manganese Inc., [Deal - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development], EBRD invests C$3.85 million into Euro Manganese Inc to advance the Chvaletice Manganese Project.
  • Riverside Resources Inc. completes spin-out of its Canadian projects and operations into Blue Jay Gold Corp., [Deal - Riverside Resources Inc.], Spin-out arrangement in mining space.
  • Bidaya Technologies closes a pre-seed financing led by Metiquity Ventures Fund I LP, [Deal - Bidaya Technologies Inc.], Bidaya Technologies closes pre-seed financing.
  • Veritree Technology Inc., the platform powering verified nature restoration, secures USD$6.5 million Series A financing round led by Pender Ventures, [Deal - Pender Ventures], Climate tech startup backed by Pender Ventures.
  • MRF 2025 Resource Limited Partnership completes C$19.4 million initial public offering, [Deal - Middlefield Limited], MRF 2025 Resource Limited Partnership completes initial public offering.
  • Silver Tiger Metals Inc. completes C$15 million bought deal offering, [Deal - Silver Tiger Metals Inc.], Mineral exploration company engaged in exploring for gold and silver completes bought deal offering of common shares.
  • Puzzle Medical Devices closes C$43 million funding round, [Deal - Puzzle Medical Devices Inc.], On April 8 2025, Puzzle Medical Devices Inc. (“Puzzle Medical”), a Quebec-based medical technology startup supporting patients with heart failure, announced the closing of a C$43 million funding round led by KF Matheson and Desjardins Capital.  The capital will be used to refine Puzzle Medical’s ...

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