Eva Bellissimo

Practice Areas

Co-Leader of McCarthy Tétrault’s Global Metals & Mining Group and National Practice Group Leader of McCarthy’s Business Law 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. With more than 20 years in the industry and having lead hundreds of transactions, Eva has extensive expertise in complex international M&A transactions, in particular in hostile or contested situations, as well as cross-border capital markets transactions.

Eva regularly 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 gold issuer and a director of Lift Power Corporation, a TSX-V listed lithium issuer.

Eva is repeatedly recognized in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, Legal 500 and Lexpert Special Edition as a leading lawyer in the areas of mining, finance, M&A, and corporate law.

Career

Ontario, 2002

Professional Memberships

CBA and OBA

Publications

Eva lectures on Financing Mining Projects at the Osgoode Certificate in Mining Law course.