Janan Paskaran > Torys > Calgary, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Torys
525 – 8th Avenue S.W., 46th Floor
Eighth Avenue Place East
Calgary, AB T2P 1G1
Canada
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Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

With a track record helping domestic and multinational organizations execute investments in Canada and around the world, Janan is a leading corporate lawyer advising clients on their M&A and capital markets transactions.

Janan’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on international transactions. He has an efficient, practical approach that comes from an extensive background of experience representing public and private issuers in a wide variety of financing, business combination and public and private M&A transactions. Janan also regularly counsels clients across sectors on their securities compliance matters, commercial transactions, and corporate finance, procedures and governance.

Janan is the co-leader of Torys’ Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

Career

Alberta, 2003

Memberships

Janan is a Director of the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) Calgary chapter. He was a former Executive member of CBA Securities South section.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Corporate and M&A

(Leading individuals)

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The corporate and M&A practice at Torys marshals the combined experience of teams in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Calgary and New York, to advise major corporates and financial institutions (including Scotiabank and BNP Paribas) involved in cross-border transactions at the domestic and international levels. The group’s client roster spans such sectors as telecoms, financial services, cannabis, utilities and energy. The group is jointly led in Toronto by John Emanoilidis, Karrin Powys-Lybbe and Michael Amm, all of whom bring expertise to complex M&A, securities, private equity and corporate governance matters. Other key figures include Adrienne DiPaolo in Toronto, who, in addition to public and private M&A, acts for bidders and targets in both negotiated and contested transactions; Janan Paskaran in Calgary, a specialist in securities compliance matters and corporate finance; and Jennifer Baugh (also in Calgary) who was promoted to partner in January 2023. Another key figure is senior associate Daniel Masliyah in Toronto.