Capital Markets and Securities

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Recent Developments

January 27, 2012  Jay Hoffman is quoted in the Financial Post regarding the firm's 70 deals in 2011.

Our Group

Miller Thomson’s Capital Markets and Securities Group consists of lawyers at various levels of seniority who understand that clients face a challenging and ever changing environment of securities policy and regulation. We have built an experienced team dedicated to helping clients thrive in that environment.

Through our national platform of over 40 securities lawyers practising out of our network of offices across the country, we have the necessary expertise in all areas of the law that you will need to get your deal done quickly and effectively.  Our Group includes leading practitioners in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary.  Collectively, we provide issuers, underwriters and other market participants with the full spectrum of capital markets transactional and advisory legal services.

Our Clients

Our team assists a wide variety of clients, including public and private issuers, market intermediaries, governmental agencies and other capital market participants.  They span a wide variety of industry sectors including Mining, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Automotive, Technology, E-commerce, CleanTech, Telecommunications, Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Real Estate, Transportation, Hospitality, and Health Care and Life Sciences, among others.

Our Services

We provide a broad range of securities and corporate finance services including: mergers & acquisitions, raising capital (public offerings and private placements), dealings with securities regulators and self-regulatory organizations, public company maintenance and compliance, registrant regulation and investment fund regulation.

Value-Added Client Resources

As part of our client service focus, we have developed an electronic securities, corporate finance and M&A focused publication called Miller Thomson Securities Practice Notes which we regularly distribute electronically to our clients.  This publication provides up to date information on Canadian regulatory and market developments, in addition to commentary on current legal issues affecting corporate counsel and business professionals interested in debt and equity capital markets.

Our group is familiar with the Canadian securities regulatory process.  Some of our lawyers have previously worked for Canadian securities regulators, either full-time or on secondment, while others have served in advisory capacities to the various provincial regulators.