Emmanuel Pressman

Practice Areas

Emmanuel (Manny) Pressman served as Chair of Osler’s Corporate Department from 2015 until 2023 and as Head of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice during the prior five-year period. He represents public and private companies, private equity sponsors, special committees, boards of directors, and financial advisers involved in take-over bids, negotiated and contested mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and a range of corporate transactions and restructurings. Clients have included Constellation Brands, Magna International, Blackstone, TPG Capital, KingSett Capital, Vector Capital, Fairfax Financial, Walter Energy, The ADT Corporation, and Shoppers Drug Mart.

Emmanuel is widely and repeatedly recognized as a leading M&A practitioner including by Who’s Who Legal (Global Leader); Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business; The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; The Legal 500; The Best Lawyers in Canada; and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory. In 2020, Emmanuel was recognized by IFLR 1000 as the inaugural recipient of its M&A Lawyer of the Year Award (Canada) and, in 2019, as one of Canada's Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers by Canadian Lawyer in its annual peer survey.

A frequent speaker at conferences relating to M&A, he has guest lectured at leading law schools and the IBA Mergers &Acquisitions Conference in New York.

Among his community involvement, Mr. Pressman serves on the Board of the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation.

Career

Mr. Pressman is an elected Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences relating to mergers and acquisitions, and has guest lectured at the McGill University Faculty of Law, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and the IBA Mergers & Acquisitions Conference in New York; and was the co-author of the Canada chapter of the International Mergers & Acquisitions Review for 10 years. Among his community involvement, Mr. Pressman currently serves on the Board of the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation.

Professional Memberships

Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association, Law Society of Ontario

Publications

Co-author of the Canada chapter of the International Mergers & Acquisitions Review for the past 10 years

Personal

Western University, J.D., University of Waterloo, B.E.S.

Ontario, 1998