Rima Ramchandani > Torys > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile

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

Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

Rima advises on a wide range of clients’ strategic mandates, including financings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance, with a practical approach informed by a long history of corporate and capital markets experience.

Co-head of the Capital Markets Practice, Rima focuses on corporate and securities law, including public and private financings, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. Rima has represented both issuers and underwriters on numerous public offerings and private placements, with particular experience in cross-border transactions.

Rima also regularly advises public company clients, including many cross-listed issuers, in a variety of industries on ongoing corporate governance and securities law matters. In her M&A practice, Rima is counsel on related party transactions, public take-over bids, and private acquisitions and divestitures.

Career

Ontario Bar, 2002

Memberships

Rima currently serves on the Ontario Securities Commission’s Securities Advisory Committee. In 2016, she was appointed to the Ontario Government’s Women in Business Steering Committee.

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.