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Overview

Will Edwards delivers practical and timely advice on a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, with a focus on domestic and cross-border M&A and capital markets transactions, as well as guidance on a variety of corporate governance and commercial matters.

Will acts for clients in a wide range of industries, including mining, entertainment, technology, FinTech, infrastructure, healthcare, financial services, real estate, retail and other industries. 

Additionally, Will frequently advises public and private companies and investment dealers in connection with mergers and acquisitions (such as takeover bids, plans of arrangement, asset and share purchase/sale transactions, reverse take-overs and other business combinations), corporate finance transactions (such as initial public offerings, follow-on treasury and secondary public offerings, rights offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities), corporate reorganizations and stock exchange listings. He has assisted mining and royalty/streaming companies with the structuring and negotiation of joint ventures, option and earn-in agreements, offtake agreements, and royalty and streaming transactions. In addition, Will provides counsel to public companies on regulatory and compliance issues, such as continuous disclosure, securities regulatory, stock exchange and governance obligations (including compliance with National Instrument 43-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators in respect of mineral project disclosure).

In 2018, Will completed a secondment as legal counsel in the M&A advisory and capital markets division of an international investment bank.

Will has also completed The Osgoode Certificate in Entertainment Law through Osgoode Professional Development and advises entertainment clients on a wide variety of matters.

Client Work

Organigram Global in its acquisition of Collective Project, a cannabis and hemp-derived beverage company
Asante Gold in its US$500-million financing package, including a C$237-million bought deal private placement of subscription receipts and the restructuring of approximately US$175 million of deferred consideration associated with the purchase of the Chirano mine
Excellon Resources in its C$8-million brokered private placement of units
Broadridge Financial Solutions in its acquisition of Kyndryl's Securities Industry Services' wealth and capital markets technology platform
Dore Copper Mining in its sale to Cygnus Metals by way of plan of arrangement
Park Lawn Corporation, a funeral, cremation and cemetery provider, in its C$1.2-billion going private transaction involving Viridian Acquisition.

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • University of Western Ontario, BHSc (Hons) with distinction, 2009
  • University of Western Ontario, JD, 2013

Bar Admissions

  • Ontario, 2014