Michelle Vigod

First Year of Call
2012 Ontario

Areas of Practice
Business Law

Description
Michelle Vigod is a partner in a business law group and Co-Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Goodmans.

She has a broad transactional practice involving all aspects of corporate and securities law, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance. Michelle advises public and private companies on a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, take-over bids, capital raising, corporate reorganizations and private equity transactions.

In addition to transactional work, Michelle provides ongoing advice to clients on matters relating to continuous disclosure obligations, corporate governance, legislative compliance and general corporate law.

Michelle is the co-chair of the firm’s Women’s Success Committee.

In 2020, Michelle was honoured as one of Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40. She has also been recognized as a leading practitioner by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate commercial law, and corporate finance and securities, Chambers Canada for corporate/commercial, the Lexpert Special Edition: Finance, the Lexpert Special Edition: M&A, IFLR1000 for mergers and acquisitions and capital markets: debt and equity, Best Lawyers in Canada for corporate law, leveraged buyouts and private equity law, mergers and acquisitions law, and securities law, and by The Legal 500 Canada for mergers and acquisitions.