Profile: Stephen H Halperin

Capital Markets

Biography: Capital Markets

Stephen Halperin is a partner, member of Goodmans' executive committee and co-chair of its corporate and securities practice group. Representative clients and transactions include: Abitibi-Consolidated in its C$7.1 billion acquisition of Donohue; Mackenzie Financial in the successful defence of CI Fund Management's hostile takeover bid and subsequent C$4.2 billion friendly bid for Mackenzie by Investors Group; Barclay Brothers in its bid for Hollinger; Coeur d'Alene Mines in its unsolicited bid for Wheaton River; Royal Group Technologies in response to Cerberus' unsolicited proposal and C$1.7 billion sale to Georgia Gulf; Fortress in its US$2.8 billion acquisition of Intrawest; Hummingbird in its C$500 million acquisition by Open Text; Avion Group in its successful, unsolicited C$600 million acquisition of Atlas Cold Storage; KCP Income Fund in its C$800 million acquisition by Caxton-Iseman and Norilsk Nickel in its successful, unsolicited C$6.8 billion acquisition of LionOre Mining.

He is a past member of the securities advisory committee of the Ontario Securities Commission, and a member of the Commission's senior securities lawyers advisory group. He taught Advanced Corporate and Securities Law at the University of Toronto Law School from 1992 to 1999.

Chambers Global ranks Steve as one of four Canadians with the "star performer" (highest) rating for corporate and M&A, and he was named one of the top 25 capital markets lawyers in the world in Euromoney's 'Best of the Best'. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in Canada and is also consistently ranked as a leading corporate finance, corporate governance and M&A practitioner in survey-based publications worldwide.

Steve is a member of the bars of, and has practised in, Ontario, Quebec and Alberta.

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