Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP's corporate and M&A team continues to be a leading force in the Canadian market, handling large private and public M&As throughout Canada. The team handles transactions of all sizes including lower and mid-market transactions alongside significant multi-jurisdictional mandates. Clientele of the firm come from numerous industries such as mining, energy, infrastructure, telecoms and finance. The Toronto practice is jointly led by finance experts Vincent Mercier, Patricia Olasker and Melanie Shishler. Mercier is experienced in acting for bidders, target boards and special committees in friendly and hostile transactions and is well-versed in cross-border deals involving the US, UK and China. Olasker is an M&A and shareholder activism transactional specialist, she has broad expertise advising clients in the food and food services sector, cannabis, mining, financial services and energy. Mainly advising domestic clients and international mining companies, Shishler is key to complex domestic and cross-border M&As and mining transactions. Aaron Atkinson focuses his practice on M&As, proxy contests and contested transactions, while Brett Seifred acts as lead counsel in M&A transactions for telecoms, entertainment, life sciences and private equity clients. Over in Montréal, Elliot Greenstone leads the team and utilizes his background in science and business to advise on corporate issues.