Glen Johnson > Torys > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Torys
79 WELLINGTON STREET WEST, SUITE 3000
BOX 270, TD CENTRE
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canada

Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

A leading lawyer in his field, Glen has a wealth of securities regulatory knowledge and capital markets experience guiding major underwriters and issuers in their domestic and cross-border equity and debt finance matters.

Glen regularly guides clients in their securities regulation and corporate finance matters, particularly in the area of domestic and cross-border securities offerings. He works with clients on a wide range of public equity and debt offerings, private placements and M&A transactions, with a particular emphasis on structured products.

Glen also counsels Canadian issuers and securities industry participants on regulatory compliance matters, including listings, governance and disclosure issues and regulation of market participants in Canada.

Career

Ontario Bar, 1994

Memberships

Glen is on the Securities Law Subcommittee of the Ontario Bar Association and is a past member of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission.

Glen has been an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Law School from 2007 to 2012, teaching the upper year securities regulation course. He has also spoken on securities regulatory issues at a number of conferences.

In the community, Glen serves as the Director and Chair on the Leadership and Governance Committee of the AIDS Committee of Toronto.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Capital markets

(Leading partners)

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The capital markets group at Torys is composed of ‘practical business advisers with a great view of precedents and trends’. Striking a balance between transactional and regulatory expertise, the team leverages the wider firm’s preeminent financial institutions offering to excel in representing financial services clients as both issuers and underwriters — it also routinely represents corporate issuers. The national department is co-led by Toronto-based David Seville (‘one of the best in Canada’), Toronto-based Rima Ramchandani and Calgary’s Scott Cochlan — all of whom contribute broad corporate finance experience. Also highly regarded in Toronto are capital markets specialists Glen Johnson and Kevin Morris, as well as securitization partner Jim Hong and senior associate Michael Murphy. In Calgary, Michael Pedlow is noted.