Brian Graves

Practice Areas

Brian Graves advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, commercial and securities law matters. With a particular focus on cross-border transactions, Brian works mainly in the mining and natural resource industries and, in particular, is considered an authority on metal streaming transactions.

Brian regularly acts as lead counsel on M&A deals for Canadian and foreign clients, advising on hostile and friendly take-over bids, reverse take-overs, plans of arrangement, asset and share purchases and related party transactions. In the corporate finance area, Brian is frequently involved in public and private securities offerings, stock exchange listings and securities regulatory matters. In the mining and natural resources space, in addition to metal streaming transactions, Brian also advises on other commercial arrangements such as joint ventures, earn-ins, operating agreements, off-take arrangements, royalties and lending transactions.