Alex Gorka

Practice Areas

Alex Gorka is Co-Chair of Osler's Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Alex regularly acts on Canada’s most high profile and complex transactions, delivering practical advice to private and public companies, private equity sponsors, and special committees on a diverse range of strategic mandates. In addition to transactional work, Alex advises on governance and continuous disclosure matters, early warning and insider reporting requirements, exemptive relief applications, and general corporate matters.

Career

Alex has completed two secondments to the Office of Mergers & Acquisitions of the Ontario Securities Commission, first in 2012 where he helped develop a new rule on shareholder rights plans as well as proposed amendments to the early warning regime, and again in 2017 where he was one of the primary drafters of Multilateral CSA Staff Notice 61-302 Staff Review and Commentary on Multilateral Instrument 61-101.

Alex is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he teaches Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Professional Master of Laws (GPLLM) program. He has also lectured at the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances and Osgoode Professional Development.

Personal

Ontario, 2010

University of Toronto, J.D.

London School of Economics, M.Sc.

University of Toronto, B.A. (Hons.)