Corporate finance and securities practice group helps our clients to navigate the corporate environment intelligently and profitably. We provide a variety of services from structuring and executing on "vanilla-flavoured" private equity financings and commercial loan security documentation to developing and implementing complex and novel structured financings for private and public companies.

Take-over Bids
Going Private & Related PartyTransactions
Reverse Take-overs
Stock Exchange Listings
IPOs, Rights Offerings, & Private Placement
Regulatory Compliance
Investment Funds
Private Equity & Subordinate & Mezzanine Debt Fina

Take-over Bids

Highly proficient in take-over bid rules, our securities lawyers act as counsel in both formal and exempt take-over bid transactions. We also act for dissident shareholder groups in proxy contests and boast a track record of success in negotiating take-over related agreements, such as lock-up and support agreements.

Going Private & Related PartyTransactions

Having acted on a number of related party and going private transactions, Chitiz Pathak LLP's securities team has an intimate understanding of the rules governing such transactions, including Ontario Securities Commission Rule 61-501.

Reverse Take-overs

We have served and continue to serve as counsel to numerous public and private companies in reverse take-over transactions pursuant to which private companies go public by merging with publicly traded companies.

Stock Exchange Listings

Our lawyers are practiced in the handling of listings and quotations on various exchanges and trading facilities, including the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange and OTC-BB.

IPOs, Rights Offerings, & Private Placement

IPOs, Rights Offerings, & Private Placement Transactions

We assist clients with a wide range of securities offerings, including public offerings, private placements and rights offerings. We negotiate private and public offerings in multiple jurisdictions for companies in business sectors that include mining and natural resources, energy, technology, manufacturing and merchant banking.

Regulatory Compliance

Our securities lawyers have earned credibility as a result of their extensive experience advising issuers on the implementation of new national and multilateral instruments governing continuous disclosure, audit committees and auditor oversight. Dealers and investment advisors also rely on us for counsel on such issues as proficiency and capital requirements and the availability of statutory exemptions or discretionary relief from the securities authorities for those requirements.

Investment Funds

Mutual fund managers value our experience with national prospectus filings and prospectus exempt offerings. Hedge fund managers depend on our counsel for all legal and regulatory aspects of their businesses, including conditions of registration, regulatory capital requirements and regulatory investigations and enquiries.Rounding off our expertise in this practice is our involvement in applications to the Ontario Securities Commission for securing registration as Investment Counsel and Portfolio Manager and Dealer registrations.

Private Equity & Subordinate & Mezzanine Debt Fina

Chitiz Pathak represents debt and private equity funds in venture capital transactions. Our lawyers assist clients in all transactional elements, including identifying financing targets, due diligence, structuring, deal execution and implementing exit strategies.