Practice Areas
Michael Cockburn is a corporate and commercial lawyer whose practice emphasizes project financing, mergers and acquisitions, public private partnerships and secured lending transactions. His practice also involves working with scale-ups and innovation companies in negotiating research and development agreements, commercialization contracts, corporate governance and securities matters.
Michael works with clients in a variety of sectors, including transit infrastructure, renewable energy, mining, cannabis, and technology, both across Canada and internationally. He has represented both lenders and borrowers in a number of contexts, including major project financings, finance backed acquisitions, and restructurings. From a projects perspective, Michael has represented government authorities, project sponsors, lenders, contractors and suppliers. He also has experience working with both small and institutional clients in connection with the purchase and sales of individual businesses or portfolios of assets.