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Provided by Eva Bellissimo
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.
Ontario, 2002
CBA, OBA and, RMMLF
Eva was a regular lecturer on mining corporate finance at UWO Law School.
Provided by Chambers
Eva Bellissimo is a highly regarded Ontario-based lawyer with a strong practice in the mining and metals sector. She frequently assists clients with M&A deals and strategic investments across various jurisdictions, including in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Provided by Chambers
"Eva is attentive, decisive and capable of advancing complex transactions on schedule. She always negotiates her client's best interests, including areas of risk that would have been unknown or underestimated by the client."
"She is incredibly knowledgeable of both capital markets and public company work. Additionally, she is responsive beyond compare and always makes herself available."
"Eva is an incredible corporate lawyer. She delivers for her clients and finds pathways forward when the room is filled with doubt. She also has an ability to advise at a high level while synthesising all of the complex information behind the scenes and keeping this unnecessary detail apart from her clients."
"Eva is attentive, decisive and capable of advancing complex transactions on schedule. She always negotiates her client's best interests, including areas of risk that would have been unknown or underestimated by the client."
"She is incredibly knowledgeable of both capital markets and public company work. Additionally, she is responsive beyond compare and always makes herself available."
"Eva is an incredible corporate lawyer. She delivers for her clients and finds pathways forward when the room is filled with doubt. She also has an ability to advise at a high level while synthesising all of the complex information behind the scenes and keeping this unnecessary detail apart from her clients."
