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Goodmans Capital Markets Group is a hands-on team of business and legal advisors with a focus on strategy, creativity and results.
Our lawyers are known for their flexibility in structuring deals of all sizes, and their professionalism when working with clients’ teams, other advisors, regulators and competitors alike. They are passionate about their work, whether serving corporate or entrepreneurial clients, and are equally at home with public and private, debt and equity transactions.
Named 2024 “Law Firm of the Year” for Securities Law by Best Lawyers in Canada, our Capital Markets Group routinely handles initial and secondary public offerings of all sizes and complexity, private placements, rights offerings, derivative and structured financings, spin-offs, asset securitizations, takeovers, mutual funds, cross-border LYONS and similar hybrid offerings and specialized tax-efficient instruments. We also represent registrants in application and compliance matters and act for market participants in disciplinary and other regulatory proceedings. Clients include issuers, investment dealers, merchant banks, investors and regulators.
Our Group’s advantage lies in its ability to create elegant financing structures with regulatory confidence. Several of our lawyers have held senior positions with principal regulatory agencies across Canada, including the OSC and the TSX. Our clients benefit from the sound regulatory perspective that comes from having former regulators on the team.
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Goodmans offers robust strengths across both debt and equity capital markets transactions, acting for a broad array of issuers and financial institutions on domestic and cross-border work. The firm also advises clients on securities and stock exchange disclosure issues and in corporate governance matters.
Goodmans advised McCain Capital and the McCain family, the largest shareholder of Maple Leaf Foods, in connection with securities issues arising in Maple Leaf Foods' proposed split into two separate public companies.
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Goodmans is full of exceptionally talented lawyers. They are very supportive of clients' endeavours and just lovely, down to earth people.
Goodmans' turnaround time is amazingly efficient.
They have a deep team and lengthy experience in the sector.
The Goodmans team works around the clock to get transactions over the finish line.
Goodmans has deep experience in capital markets and in the REIT space. Their service and responsiveness levels are also very high.
Goodmans is full of exceptionally talented lawyers. They are very supportive of clients' endeavours and just lovely, down to earth people.
Goodmans' turnaround time is amazingly efficient.
They have a deep team and lengthy experience in the sector.
The Goodmans team works around the clock to get transactions over the finish line.
Goodmans has deep experience in capital markets and in the REIT space. Their service and responsiveness levels are also very high.
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Brad Ross is a Toronto-based capital markets lawyer who has experience acting for issuers and underwriters on debt and equity offerings.
Brad Ross is a really strong lawyer. He has great experience and moves things forward well.
Brad is exactly what you look for in an external counsel of a public issuer.
Brad is very business-minded, identifies risk and comes to practical conclusions. He is good at seeing the forest through the trees.
Stephen Pincus is a respected lawyer and the head of Goodmans' capital markets team. He frequently assists with equity transactions, including acting on deals involving SPACs and REITs.
Stephen is creative, strong, commercial, extremely responsive and provides good insights and strong advice and views.
Bill Gorman represents companies from a variety of industry sectors in public offerings and private placements. His clientele includes issuers and underwriters.
He is efficient and effective in his approach.
Bill has decades of experience.
Bill has the right combination of context, experience and understanding of the practicality of the legal market.