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Gowling WLG Offices

Gowling WLG
1600 – 1 FIRST CANADIAN PLACE
100 KING STREET WEST
TORONTO, ONTARIO, M5X 1G5
Canada
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Mr Peter Simeon

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Position

Partner

Co-Leader, Cannabis Group

Career

Peter Simeon is an experienced corporate commercial and securities lawyer. As a partner in Gowling WLG’s Toronto office, Peter focuses his practice on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and structured products.

Working closely with issuers, underwriters, and other corporate clients, Peter delivers practical, effective advice to help businesses move their transactions forward. He has acted for clients across a range of industries, such as cannabis, mining, and technology. His experience includes:

  • Public offerings, including initial public offerings (IPOs)
  • Private placements
  • Reverse takeovers and qualifying transactions
  • Bought deal financings
  • Secondary offerings
  • Share and asset purchase transactions

In addition to his work in private practice, Peter is also an experienced in-house lawyer. He spent several years as corporate counsel at a multinational technology company, and completed a secondment at the Ontario Securities Commission in its Market Regulation Group.

In 2019, Peter was named one of Canada’s “Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers” by Canadian Lawyer.

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Peter Simeon – Gowling WLG

An increasingly prominent firm in the cannabis sphere, Gowling WLG added 11 new clients to its roster over the past year. Distinguished by its ability to lean on the wider firm’s signature IP offering, the team shines in regulatory and IP-related issues, with sources highlighting its ‘extraordinary level of unique regulatory knowledge’. It also houses a robust transactional practice, which recently saw Toronto-based Peter Simeon advise IM Cannabis Corp on three strategic acquisitions completed through IMC Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of IM Cannabis and IMC Pharma. Ottawa-based regulatory specialist Lewis Retik co-heads the practice alongside Simeon. Toronto-based IP partner Natalie Rizkalla-Kamel is also noted.

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