Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
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Band 1

Corporate/M&A

Canada

20 Years Ranked

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Band 2

Private Equity: Buyouts

Canada

2 Years Ranked

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About

Provided by Neill May

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Practice Areas

Neill May is a partner, a member of the Executive Committee and a former Co-Chair of the Corporate Securities Group at Goodmans. His practice focuses on all aspects of securities law, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Neill has developed a reputation for expertise in securities law and for his ability to negotiate and complete complex and innovative transactions.

Neill has counselled participants in numerous public and private M&A transactions and has represented clients on both sides of friendly and hostile takeover bids. He has also structured and implemented a vast range of corporate reorganizations and financing transactions, including domestic and cross-border public offerings, and private strategic and venture capital financings.

Career

Neill is recognized by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as most frequently recommended in corporate finance & securities, M&A, corporate commercial, corporate mid-market, and private equity, and repeatedly recommended for mining law. He has also been recommended by The Lexpert 500 (corporate commercial, corporate finance, corporate mid-market, M&A, and private equity), Chambers Global (corporate/M&A and private equity: buyouts), Chambers Canada (corporate/commercial and private equity: buyouts), Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading M&A Lawyers, IFLR1000 (M&A), Lexology Index (capital markets & thought leader in M&A), The Legal 500 Canada (M&A), The Best Lawyers in Canada (corporate, leveraged buyouts & private equity, M&A, mining, natural resources, private funds and securities), and as a leading practitioner in the Lexpert Special Edition: Finance and M&A, and Lexpert Special Edition: Energy and Mining.

Professional Memberships

Neill is a former member of the Toronto Stock Exchange Listing Advisory Committee and the Ontario Securities Commission’s Securities Advisory Committee and Small Business Advisory Committee. He has co-authored reports for the Ontario Securities Commission Task Force on small business financing. Neill is a former Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and heads the firm’s continuing legal education committee.

Neill is a member of the Law Society of Ontario.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Global Guide

Corporate/M&A - Canada

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Band 1
Individual Editorial

Neill May has a wealth of experience handling M&A and corporate finance matters. Based in Toronto, he advises on transactions across a broad range of industries, including mining and private equity.


Private Equity: Buyouts - Canada

2
Band 2
Individual Editorial

Neill May has a wealth of experience handling M&A and corporate finance matters. Based in Toronto, he advises on transactions across a broad range of industries, including mining and private equity.

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