Expertise

Private Equity

Ogilvy Renault LLP is one of Canada's leading law firms in the private equity market. Our private equity team has extensive experience working with private equity funds and financial institutions in acquisitions and dispositions of businesses and related finance transactions and with private equity fund sponsors in fund formation and maintenance. We have been involved in some of the most important private equity transactions in Canadian history.

The members of our private equity team have a broad range of relevant experience, including:

• The formation of private equity funds;
• The structuring and execution of Canadian and cross-border private equity investments;
• The structuring and execution of the financing of private equity investments;
• The structuring of shareholder and other governance arrangements;
• The provision of a wide spectrum of day-to-day legal services to portfolio companies;
• The restructuring of portfolio companies; and
• The structuring and execution of investment exits via private sales and public offerings.

The Ogilvy Renault private equity team is able to draw upon the depth and breadth of our firm's experience across complementary practice areas to provide our private equity clients with mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking, tax, antitrust, real estate, intellectual property, pensions and benefits, employment and labour, corporate governance, insolvency and restructuring and environmental expertise necessary for the making of private equity investments and the ongoing management of portfolio companies.

We have longstanding relationships with numerous Canadian, U.S. and international clients which are active in the private equity market, including leading private equity firms, venture capital firms, financial institutions, pension funds, institutional investors, entrepreneurs, public companies and private companies. The depth and strength of our business relationships enable us to anticipate opportunities and introduce our clients to each other for their mutual benefit. We can connect private equity clients with sources of debt financing, and when interested in buying or selling businesses, we can connect private equity clients with interested clients.

Ogilvy Renault also routinely works closely with U.S. and international law firms in cross-border private equity transactions and private equity transactions that otherwise have an international dimension. In Canadian transactions that have a U.S. or overseas component, we work with leading foreign law firms which advise on all relevant foreign legal aspects. In U.S. and overseas transactions that have a Canadian component, we are often called upon by the lead U.S. or overseas counsel to provide Canadian legal advice and assistance with transaction execution.