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Graham is the national leader of BLG's Private Company Group and has served as partner responsible for the management of the Firm's Corporate & Commercial Group in Toronto. He is recognized as a leading Canadian business lawyer with extensive transactional experience and expertise in complex domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate and commercial matters and joint ventures.
Graham acts for domestic and international companies and investment funds, family offices and investors conducting or establishing business operations in Canada in a broad range of industries. As a trusted advisor, he counsels vendors, purchasers, corporate directors and boards, shareholders and other business stakeholders with a practical, strategic, dynamic and solutions based approach. He is frequently published in academic journals, print and electronic media on a variety of corporate and business law related matters.
Prior to the practice of law, Graham was part of the Corporate and Investment Banking Group at one of Canada's largest investment dealers, and held senior positions in the investment management industry with a focus on fixed income products.
Within BLG, Graham has been awarded “Mentor of the Year" in recognition of his ongoing mentorship and development of students and associates and he was a long-standing member of the Firm's Monitoring and Admissions Committee for the partnership.
Experience
Wakefield Canada Inc. in its acquisition of Castrol Canada Inc. from BP Lubricants USA Inc. and related manufacturing assets in Canada; its negotiation of exclusive Canadian distribution rights to all SuperClean branded products; in connection with the sale of its H2Blu-branded Diesel Exhaust Fluid business to Recochem Inc. and with respect to various ongoing commercial and transactional matters.
Illumiti Inc. in its share sale to Syntax Systems (a portfolio company of Novacap); led multidiscipline 35 member BLG team with transaction entities in Canada, the U.S., Germany and Switzerland.
Trisura Guarantee Insurance Company; acted on behalf of the management shareholder group of Trisura Guarantee Insurance Company, in the spinoff of Trisura Group Ltd., the majority shareholder, from Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
Krismark Holdings ULC and certain of its affiliates in its acquisition of Lakes of Muskoka Cottage Brewery Inc. and Vancouver Island Brewing Inc.
Medical Futures Inc. (MFI); acted for MFI in its sale to Tribute Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc.
ND Graphics Inc.; acted for management group in its buyout from Gerber Scientific International Limited and subsequent acquisition of Western Rim Industries Ltd.
Evonik Degussa Corporation and Evonik Canada Inc.; advised Evonik in the purchase of the assets of Kemira Chemicals Canada Inc.
Mobilicity and its affiliates in their $250 million bid for wireless spectrum.
Portland Group in the sale of shares of Manulife Financial Corporation to Berkshire-TWC Financial Group Inc.
Chrysler Canada Inc. in a $769 million funding agreement with the Government of Ontario.
Hammond Manufacturing Company Limited and Hammond Power Solutions Inc. on the sale of shares of Moloney Electric Inc. to Universal Power Transformer Power Limited of India.
Maxxium Canada Inc. on the sale of its shares by Maxxium Worldwide B.V. to Beam Global (now Beam-Suntory) and related global reorganization.
AMEC Americas Limited 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.
Co-Author, "The Nominee Director in Canada," BLG's Business and Corporate Commercial Bulletin, August 2017 (as reproduced in Corporate Brief, LexisNexis, September 15, 2017, Number 277)
PUBLICATION
Co-author, “Bill 101 Has Major Shortcomings,” Law Times, August 21, 2017.
PUBLICATION
Adjunct Professor/Instructor of Law, University of Western Ontario
Former Director, The London Goodenough Association of Canada (Goodenough College, London, England)
Member, Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association, American Bar Association and Institute of Corporate Directors
Community Involvement
Mentor, Ryerson University - Ted Rogers School of Management “Top 200 Program" mentoring upper year students who have been chosen for their strong academic performance and identified as emerging leaders
Advisory Board Member and Former Director, The Georgian Bay Land Trust
Volunteer and Former Director, Habitat for Humanity, Greater Toronto Area
Former Governor and Chair of Governance Committee, The Sterling Hall School
Volunteer, Lawyers Feed the Hungry (Toronto Community Program)
Awards & Recognitions
Recognized as a leading lawyer in the 2020 and 2019 editions of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Corporate Mid-Market - Repeatedly Recommended)
Bar Admission & Education
Ontario, 2002
JD,
Université de Windsor, 2001
MSc,
London School of Economics and Political Science, 1994
BA,
Université Concordia, 1992
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