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McCarthy Tétrault
Suite MZ400
1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
Montréal QC
H3B 0A2
Canada

Work Department

Capital Markets: Debt & Equity

Position

Patrick is co-head of our National capital markets group. Patrick’s practice focuses on securities and corporate law, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, take-over bids, private equity deals and public financings. He is counsel to issuers and underwriters in various public offerings (including initial public offerings) and private placements of publicly listed issuers. He participated in numerous take-over bids and going-private transactions of publicly listed issuers, and has acted as counsel to independent committees in connection with various transactions.

Career

Barreau du Québec, 1996.

Memberships

Quebec and Canadian bar association

Education

Université de Montréal (LLB), 1994 École des hautes études commerciales of Montréal (HEC) BBA Finance, 1991.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Capital markets

(Leading individuals)

Patrick BoucherMcCarthy Tétrault

McCarthy Tétrault’s first-class financial institutions offering is reflected in its capital markets practice, where the firm is widely recognized for its record in representing underwriters on debt and equity offerings. Among its recent highlights in this sphere, Montreal-based capital markets co-head Patrick Boucher advised a syndicate of dealers, led by National Bank Financial, on a C$750m offering of medium-term notes. The team is also a regular fixture on the issuer side, as evidenced by its its work for Cameco Corporation on its $747.6m bought deal offering; high-profile capital markets co-head Andrew Parker led the group’s involvement in that deal from Toronto. Other key contacts include Toronto-based national financial services chair Marc MacMullin, who is a go-to name for structured finance; Toronto’s Jo-Anna Brimmer, who specializes in securitization, covered bonds and debt capital markets; structured finance co-lead Dean Masse, who is also in Toronto; and Calgary-based Alyson Goldman.