Greg Hollingsworth

Practice Areas

Business Taxation; Corporate Commercial Law; Fund Investments & Asset Management; Mergers & Acquisitions

Career

Greg is both a lawyer and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) who practices in the areas of business law, mergers and acquisitions, and taxation. Greg’s combined legal, taxation and accounting background enables him to advise clients on both the commercial and taxation aspects of transactions. Clients and their financial advisers particularly value his unique ability to converse with them at a high level on financial and accounting matters.

A significant part of Greg’s practice is focused on the formation of private equity funds and M&A transactions involving private equity funds. Greg is the head of Lawson Lundell’s Private Equity Group and is recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2023) as ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in the area of Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity law. He acts for a number of private equity clients including CAI Capital Partners, Highland West Capital, Lighthouse Equity Partners, Fulcrum Capital Partners Inc. (formerly, HSBC Capital (Canada) Inc.), Parallel49 Equity (formerly Tricor Pacific Capital Inc.), Stern Partners, Beedie Capital Partners, Yellow Point Equity Partners, Breakwater Management LP, Arviat Equity Partners, and Headland Capital Partners,

Greg has acted for both CVCA ‘Deal of the Year’ award recipients (2007, 2014 and 2022) and ACG Vancouver ‘Deal of the Year’ award recipients (2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019).

Greg qualified as a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) in 1988 while working with Ernst & Young in Toronto. He joined Lawson Lundell in 1992 and worked in both the Business Law and Tax Groups of the firm until 1999. Between 1999 and 2004, Greg worked in Dublin, Ireland with William Fry, Solicitors, one of Ireland’s top corporate-commercial law firms, where he practiced both corporate-commercial and taxation law in the Technology and Taxation Groups of the firm. His practice in Ireland focused primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and inbound and outbound investment. Greg re-joined Lawson Lundell in 2005 upon his return to Canada.

Greg is the former head of the Business Services Group at Lawson Lundell, which encompasses all non-litigation areas of practice in the firm.

Professional Memberships

Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association, Member

Canadian Tax Foundation, Member

Canadian Bar Association, Member

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, Member

Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia, Member

International Taxation Committee of the Irish Taxation Institute, Former Member