Mike Devereux

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2008

Areas of Practice
Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets

Description
Mike Devereux is a partner in the Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups and a member of the Associates Committee in the Toronto office. His practice focuses on securities and corporate law, with an emphasis on public and private mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, private equity transactions, strategic transactions such as joint ventures, partnerships and significant investments, and corporate finance transactions.

Mike has advised issuers, boards of directors, special committees, management teams, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, financial advisors and other transaction participants in a wide range of M&A transactions, both public and private, as well as issuers and securities dealers in numerous corporate finance transactions. He also regularly advises clients on corporate governance and securities law compliance matters, shareholder activism and take-over preparedness.

Professional Activities
Mike is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and the Canadian Bar Association.

Background
Mike completed a secondment in Stikeman Elliott’s Sydney, Australia office, where he advised clients on international corporate finance and M&A transactions.