Recognition of Our Work

The Lexpert-Thomson Findlaw Guide to the Leading 100 Canada/US Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada named 12 Stikeman Elliott lawyers as leaders in cross-border business law. Among these are seven of the firm's M&A partners, the largest representation of any Canadian M&A group, and five partners from the firm's corporate tax, antitrust, mining and private equity groups.

Representative Services

We have structured our international/cross-border practice to assist foreign companies entering Canada with the expertise they require, as well as Canadian companies expanding into foreign markets. Our lawyers work across a broad range of key practice areas, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity/venture capital, securities, corporate finance, banking, tax, litigation, global project finance, Eurobond issues, global mining and oil and gas. We are well positioned to handle the Canadian component of any cross-border transaction including, in addition to the above, insolvency/restructuring, competition/antitrust, Investment Canada and other regulatory issues.

As an extension of our international and cross-border services, Stikeman Elliott is also able to provide our Canadian clients with U.S. and U.K. legal counsel for select areas of our corporate and securities practice. We routinely advise:

• Canadian issuers (or their underwriters) on accessing U.S. or U.K. capital markets through private offerings of debt or equity securities and, in appropriate circumstances, public offerings of debt or equity securities.
  
• Canadian acquirers/sellers in private M&A transactions involving U.S. and U.K. targets, including the negotiation of U.S. and English law governed transaction documents.
  
• Canadian private equity firms, private equity arms of corporations and start-up entities in connection with U.S. and U.K. private equity & venture capital financings and U.S. and U.K. portfolio investments.
  
• Canadian companies in connection with the application of U.S. and U.K. laws to Canadian or other non-U.S. or non-U.K. public M&A transactions, tender offers, exchange offers and rights offerings. 
  
• Canadian clients in connection with forming Delaware and New York corporations, LLCs and limited partnerships and in connection with Delaware and New York law applicable to them. 
  
• Canadian clients in connection with forming English companies, partnerships, LLPs and other entities and in connection with English law applicable to them.
  
• Canadian issuers in obtaining listings on NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq and in respect of their ongoing U.S. listing and reporting requirements (including compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other U.S. corporate governance requirements). 
  
• Canadian issuers in obtaining listings on the London Stock Exchange and quotations on AIM and in respect of their ongoing compliance requirements.
  
• Clients on other aspects of SEC reporting and compliance (including Annual Reports on Form 20-F or Form 40-F and Current Reports on Form 6-K), as well as monitoring the need for SEC registration, beneficial ownership reporting (Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G) and sales of restricted or control securities (Rule 144).
  
• We also offer ancillary U.S. and English law advice and services in connection with the firm's work on Canadian client matters, including advice on contractual and commercial matters and general corporate matters.

Recent Group Activities

Stikeman Elliott participating in compliance conference
October 20-22 / The firm is sponsoring and Terence Doherty of the New York office will be participating at the National Society of Compliance Professionals annual conference in Philadelphia.

Lawyers publish Canadian chapter on M&A
Marvin Yontef and Simon Romano published a chapter in the 2008 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Mergers & Acquisitions, published by Global Legal Group Ltd, London on Canadian M&A.  

#1 in Cross-Border Litigation
Lexpert has named 10 Stikeman Elliott lawyers among Canada's premier cross-border litigators. The firm has more lawyers listed than any other firm in the Corporate Commercial, Class Actions and Securities area. 

Lawyers co-author paper on Investment Canada Act
Shawn Neylan and Kevin Rushton have co-authored a paper "Canadian Foreign Investment Review of Acquisitions by State Owned or Controlled Enterprises" concerning the issues faced under the Investment Canada Act. Request a copy of the paper.