During 2024/25, Dentons handled a steady stream of cross-border — particularly US-related — securities matters, including large-scale spin-off transactions. The sizeable national practice is led from Calgary by Bennett Wong, who also heads the industrials sector group. Other names to note include Ora Wexler, who leads the securities and mining teams in Toronto; Calgary-based William Gilliland, who specializes in corporate, securities and M&A work; and Eric Lung, who is the key contact for securities and corporate finance in Vancouver.
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‘The team is hard-working, honest, knowledgeable and has the client's best interest in mind - specifically Eric Lung and Mary Su.’
Key clients
- BMO Capital Markets
- Scotia Capital
- Capital Power Corporation
- Saturn Oil & Gas
- Hamilton Thorne
- Lions Gate Entertainment Corp
- The Westaim Corporation
- Frontview REIT
- Unitil Corporation
- New Stratus Energy
- Raymond James
- Cascades
- Hammond Power Solutions
- ATB Capital Markets
- Beedie Investments
- Ondine Biomedical
- DMG Blockchain Solutions
- Aardvark 2 Capital Corp
Work highlights
Advised Capital Power on its C$600m public offering of senior unsecured medium-term notes.
Advised Lions Gate Entertainment Corp on the separation of its traditional studios business and the streaming and media business of Starz Entertainment by way of plan of arrangement.
Acted as Canadian legal counsel to The Westaim Corporation on the $250m strategic investment by Wembley Group Partners in Westaim.
Practice head
Bennett Wong; Ora Wexler; Eric Lung; Megan Cornell; François Brabant; Peter Inglis
Other key lawyers
William Gilliland; Benjamin Iscoe; Mary Su