Biography: Capital Markets

A partner in the corporate department, co-head of the capital markets and securities group and head of the firm's Canadian practice group, Edwin S Maynard focuses primarily on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions. He has represented many US, Canadian and other non-US issuers in a broad range of securities offerings, public and private, equity and debt and in cross-border acquisitions and restructurings, both public and private. Mr Maynard has advised numerous issuers, underwriters and placement agents in connection with cross-border offerings made in Canada and the United States pursuant to the Canadian-US multi-jurisdictional disclosure system, Rule 144A and Regulation S. Mr Maynard regularly advises US, Canadian and other non-US public companies with respect to their US reporting obligations. He is recognised as a leading lawyer in the area of capital markets by Chambers USA, Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal.

Mr Maynard speaks frequently on a range of securities law and mergers and acquisitions topics, most often on the effects of legal developments in the United States on Canadian companies and their underwriters/agents. From 2002 to 2004, Mr Maynard served as the sole American representative on the securities advisory committee of the Ontario Securities Commission.

Mr Maynard received a number of awards for his pro bono work on behalf of micro-entrepreneurs in Harlem. As a member of the advisory committee of the Cyrus R Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives, Mr Maynard was actively involved in the Vance Center's efforts that led to the 2008 launch of the Pro Bono Declaration of the Americas, committing signing law firms and other legal institutions throughout the Americas to do pro bono work. Mr Maynard is also a director of the Classic Stage Company.