MLT Aikins LLP

Corporate Finance & Securities | Mergers & Acquisitions | Innovation and Emerging Growth | Mining & Natural Resources

Partner & Co-Lead of Mining

Mahdi is an emerging industries lawyer with particular focus in the areas of technology, mining and resources, cannabis and psychedelics, and plant protein. He advises entrepreneurs and growth-stage companies across Canada and helps businesses navigate legal and regulatory issues within new and rapidly advancing industries.  Mahdi also works extensively with mineral resource issuers and has developed a broad depth of experience in respect of the requirements of National Instrument 43-101 and the securities law requirements for mineral resource issuers.

Mahdi employs a ‎business centric and practical approach to solving business and legal needs from incorporation through exit. He acts for clients at all stages of the business life cycle, advising on investments, acquisitions, amalgamations and reorganizations. Mahdi has experience assisting companies and investors secure debt and equity financing through private equity and venture capital opportunities.

In addition to transactional work, Mahdi advises public issuers on continuous disclosure obligations, corporate governance, securities, financing and general corporate law matters. He has extensive experience with corporate reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, public and private equity and debt financing transactions, and Canadian and foreign stock exchange listings. He has participated in numerous cross-border and international corporate finance and merger transactions.

Mahdi has been recognized by the Best Lawyers in Canada for Corporate Law (since 2022) and in the 2025 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for Corporate Mid-Market. He was recognized as one of Lexpert magazine’s Rising Stars: Canada’s Leading Lawyers Under 40 in 2019 and also recognized as a leading lawyer in the agribusiness and cannabis industries in the 2020 Lexpert Special Edition: Agribusiness and Cannabis.

He is fluent in French and Farsi and has an intermediate level of Spanish.

French, Farsi, Spanish

Member, Board of Directors, Capture Photography Festival (2020-present) Participant, “Sleep Out to Support Homeless Youth” Fundraiser (November 21, 2019)

New York Bar (2011) British Columbia Bar (2010) JD (Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie, 2009) MBA (Dalhousie, 2009) BA (British Columbia, 2005) CIEP (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), 2003)