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Graham King

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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

Advised and acted for:
  • 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)

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