Profile: Marvin Yontef

Corporate Governance

Biography: Corporate Governance

Marvin Yontef is a senior partner in the Toronto office of Stikeman Elliott LLP. He has counselled on a wide range of commercial activities including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, banking and project finance, securities offerings, corporate reorganisations and restructurings and working with directors, senior officers and director committees as well as with commercial and investment bankers on strategic and fiduciary issues.

Mr Yontef's recent achievements include acting as lead corporate counsel for Air Canada in its efforts to restructure its business (the largest insolvency, business and debt restructuring ever attempted in Canada). He also acted as lead counsel for Blackfriars Corp in its successful public tender for and acquisition of Emco Limited; for the acquiror in Cara Holdings Limited's successful going-private transaction with Cara Operations Limited; for Nortel on the sale of its manufacturing operations to Flextronics; for MemberWorks on its acquisition of Lavalife; for Allstream in its proposed merger with Manitoba Telecom Services; for Aecon on the acquisition proposal from Hochtief; for ACE Aviation Services on its acquisition of a strategic investment in US Airways; for the Government of Ontario (Infrastructure Ontario) in connection with the establishment and funding of the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority and its initial projects; for Pinetree Capital in conjunction with an Ontario Securities Commission investigation; for Laidlaw International in its merger with First Group; and for Apax Partners in connection with its acquisition of Thomson Learning.

Mr Yontef received his LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, and his LLM from Harvard University.