Background

Graham King is a partner practicing at our Toronto office. He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2002. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Science (London School of Economics, England) and a Juris Doctor (University of Windsor).

Prior to joining BLG, Graham worked in the investment and corporate banking group at one of Canada's largest investment dealers and was also a portfolio manager.

Areas of Practice

• Graham is the Toronto regional leader of BLG's Private Company Group. He specializes in corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions.

Professional Experience

• Advises vendors, purchasers and other stakeholders in connection with Canadian and cross-border divestitures, acquisitions mergers and other corporate arrangements.
• Corporate counsel and advisor to private corporations, partnerships, private equity and venture capital corporations, investors, sole proprietorships and not-for-profit/non-share capital organizations.
• Advises on corporate reorganizations, partnership structures, professional corporations, joint ventures, private placements, earn outs, and the negotiation of subscription, shareholder, share and asset purchase agreements and a broad range of commercial contracts.
• Advises corporate directors, officers and corporations on fiduciary and corporate governance matters.

Representative Transactions

• Evonik Degussa Corporation and Evonik Canada Inc. in connection with the purchase of substantially all of the assets of Kemira Chemicals Canada Inc.
• Wakefield Canada Inc. in connection with its purchase of Castrol Canada Inc. from BP Lubricants USA Inc.
• Mobilicity and its affiliates in connection with its successful $250,000,000 bid for wireless spectrum.
• Manulife Financial Corporation in connection with the acquisition of Berkshire-TWC Financial Group Inc.
• Chrysler Canada Inc. in connection with a $769,000,000 funding agreement with the Government of Ontario.
• Hammond Manufacturing Company Limited and Hammond Power Solutions Inc. in connection with the sale of shares of Moloney Electric Inc. to Indian corporation Universal Power Transformer Power Limited.
• Maxxium Canada Inc. in connection with the sale of its shares by Maxxium Worldwide B.V. to Beam Global and related global reorganization.
• AMEC Americas Limited in connection with its purchase of shares of Philips Engineering Inc., and AMEC Dynamic Structures Ltd. with its sale of shares to Empire Industries Ltd.
• Best Buy Canada Ltd. in its purchase of Howell & Associates Inc.
• Scepter Holdings Inc. in its purchase of certain shares of Globalive Communications Inc.
• ND Graphics Inc. in its purchase of assets from Gerber Scientific International Ltd. (management buyout)

Professional and Community Activities

• Adjunct Professor/Instructor, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
• Director of Beam Canada Inc. (a subsidiary of Fortune Brands, Inc.)
• Director of Habitat for Humanity - Toronto
• Former Director of The London Goodenough Association of Canada (Goodenough College, London, England)
• Former Director and current Advisory Board member of The Georgian Bay Trust Foundation Inc. (the Georgian Bay Land Trust)
• Director of several private Canadian and US corporations
• Editor, Martindale-Hubbell Canada Law Digest, Canada Business Corporations Act
• Former columnist for Law Times "Corporate Corner"
• Author, "Extending Fiduciary Principles to the Director-Creditor Relationship, A Canadian Perspective", Vol. 29 No. 2, Man. L.J., and as published in "Control of Corporate Management", Canadian Legal Studies Series, Third Edition, Captus Press Inc.
• Author, Law Times articles including, "No Fiduciary Relationship Between Directors & Creditors"; "Improving Standards of Corporate Governance"; " Real Business Judgment Needed for Business Judgement Rule's Protection"; " Business Should Comply Soon With New Consumer Protection Act"; "Directors Prosecuted, Corporate Charters Cancelled".
• Co-Author, Canadian Lawyer Magazine, "Directors Have a Fiduciary Duty to the Corporation - and only to the Corporation!"
• Speaker at the Ontario Bar Association
• Member of the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations
• Member of the American Bar Association (Associate)