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Overview

Ian Michael's practice is focused on corporate and securities law with an emphasis on M&A and infrastructure investments involving private equity investments and public companies, corporate finance, and aviation infrastructure consortia. He has worked extensively with international investors in connection with their Canadian investments and acquisitions. He works with boards of directors, senior executives and private equity investors in a range of industries including aviation, real estate, technology and automotive.

Ian previously served as a member of the Securities Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). SAC provides advice to the Commission on a variety of matters including legislative and policy initiatives and important capital markets trends. Ian is also a former secondee member of the Mergers & Acquisitions team at the OSC.

Ian has been recommended by The Legal 500 Canada and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in the areas Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Transport - Aviation, in addition to being noted by Lexpert as a leading infrastructure lawyer in Canada for his extensive work with aviation infrastructure consortia at most international airports in Canada. Ian is the firm's Toronto office delegate on the Pacific Rim Advisory Council (PRAC), a leading global association of 30 top tier law firms representing 12,000 lawyers around the world including Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. 

Ian has taught mergers & acquisitions for the advanced securities law program at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Windsor. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of St. Andrew's College.

Client Work

Morrison Hershfield Group Inc. with the private company arrangement in its sale to Stantec Consulting Ltd.
Safety Express Ltd. (an Aramsco company) in its acquisition of Sycorp Environmental.
S.i. Systems, a portfolio company of Quad-C Management, in its sale by Quad-C and management shareholders to Cornell Capital and Torquest Partners.
PowerSchool in its acquisition of Chalk.com Education.
Trillium Health Partners, together with Partners Community Health, in the acquisition of the Camilla Care Community long-term care facility from Sienna Senior Living in a hybrid transaction where Trillium Health Partners acquired the land and building for future hospital expansion and Partners Community Health acquired the long term care bed licenses and operations of the facility.
Urban Life Solutions, a portfolio company of Signal Hill Equity Partners, completed the acquisition of P. Munro Group Inc.

Recognitions & Awards

Chambers Canada

Ranked, Transportation: Aviation

Legal 500 Canada

Key Lawyer, Transport: Aviation

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Commercial Law
Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Finance & Securities
Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Mid-Market
Repeatedly Recommended, Mergers & Acquisitions
Repeatedly Recommended. Private Equity

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Health Sciences Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Health Sciences lawyer

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Infrastructure Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Infrastructure lawyer

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Finance and M&A Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Finance and M&A lawyer

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • Queen's University, BA, 1996
  • Queen's University, LLB, 1999

Bar Admissions

  • Ontario, 2001

Insights

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Getting the Deal Through in Private M&A in Canada

December 30, 2022
John M. MercuryJames T. McClaryIan C. Michael
& 2 more
Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Decarbonizing Canadas Aviation IndustryBlog

Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Decarbonizing Canada's Aviation Industry

December 20, 2022
Ashley M. WhiteIan C. MichaelLaura C. Glover
Ashley M. White, Ian C. Michael & Laura C. Glover