Eva Bellissimo
Global Guide 2024
Band 4 : Mining (International & Cross-Border)
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About
Provided by Eva Bellissimo
Practice Areas
Co-Leader of McCarthy Tétrault’s Global Metals & Mining Group. Named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada, Eva is deeply connected to the mining industry and is a strategic and entrepreneurial transactional lawyer. Eva has extensive expertise in complex international M&A transactions and capital markets.
With more than 20 years of experience leading hundreds of M&A and corporate finance transactions, Eva advises on and develops deal strategy for a variety of transactions including arrangements, RTOs, going-private transactions, take-over bids, public equity offerings, convertible debt transactions and IPOs. Eva is also a lead advisor to a number of international clients seeking to undertake strategic investments in TSX-listed issuers. She has also navigated issuers through proxy contests and advised with respect to activist shareholder actions.
Eva’s experience extends to the boardroom where she is also a director and chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of i-80 Gold Corp, a TSX and NYSE listed issuer.
Eva is repeatedly recognized including by Lexpert (Mining, Finance & M&A), and Legal 500 among others.
Career
Ontario, 2002
Professional Memberships
CBA, OBA and, RMMLF
Publications
Eva was a regular lecturer on mining corporate finance at UWO Law School.