Matthew Merkley

Practice Areas

Matthew is co-head of the Corporate Governance practice in Toronto. He represents clients in a wide variety of capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters. He has acted for issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings and other Canadian and cross-border public offerings of equity and debt. He also has expertise in advising public issuers and their boards on various matters, including with respect to: governance, compensation and disclosure; dual-class share structures; related-party and other conflict of interest transactions; voluntary and involuntary executive and board succession; and cyberattacks, insider trading and other sensitive incidents. Matthew is a member of the Ontario Securities Commission Securities Advisory Committee.