Tasy Bacolias

Partner

Location: Montréal
Email: TBacolias@blg.com
Phone: 514.954.2554

Expertise

Emmanuelle Baldassarre

Practice Assistant

Location: Montréal
Email: EBaldassarre@blg.com
Fax: 514.954.1905
Phone: 514.954.2555

Tasy practises corporate commercial law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. He advises clients from a variety of industries, including:

Information Technology
Automotive and Mobility
Real Estate

Before joining BLG, Tasy practised corporate and commercial law with a large firm in Montréal. He was also seconded at a globally-recognized professional services firm, where he focused on risk management in private and public procurement.

Tasy is fluent in English, French and Greek.

Experience

Acted for New York City based private equity firm Achieve Partners in its investment in Toronto and Philadelphia based Ascend Partners, a provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) technology.
Acted for Accelleron (SWX: ACLN) in its acquisition of True North Marine, a digital service provider specialized in weather routing and voyage optimization for the marine industry.
Acted for Bell Media in its divestiture of radio station businesses across Canada.
Acted for Davie in connection with its acquisition of the assets of Finland's Helsinki Shipyard Oy, a landmark transaction in the Arctic shipbuilding space, including the negotiation of $110 million (€77 million) in equity and debt financing from the Québec government.
Represented Telesat in $2.54B funding agreement (for its subsidiary, Telesat LEO Inc.) for its broadband satellite constellation
Acted for Oakley Capital’s portfolio company IU Group in its acquisition of the University of Fredericton.
Acted for Apax Partner’s portfolio company Alcumus in its acquisition of Cognibox, a contractor management, training and compliance software business, and its sale of its eCompliance business to EcoOnline.
Acted for Labelcraft in a cross-border acquisition by a portfolio company of a publicly traded private equity fund.
Acted for California- and London-based private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners in its acquisition by InFlight, a leading software and human capital management platform
Acted for Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in its merger with The Lion Electric Co. (NYSE:LEV and LEV:TO) and a concurrent US$200 million private placement pursuant to which Lion would become listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges with a market capitalization of C$4 billion
Acted for Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), a global provider of mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions, in its all-cash acquisition of Maximus Solutions valued at C$135.4 million
Acted for leading SAP systems integration and management consultancy Illumiti in its sale to Syntax Systems, a Montréal-based managed cloud provider for enterprise applications backed by Novacap
Acted for PE-backed Atlanta-based buyer East West Manufacturing, LLC in its acquisition of all the assets of Groupe Varitron, Inc., a top five electronic manufacturing services (EMS) provider in Canada
Acted for BlueMed Medical Supplies in its sale to Aspen Surgical Products, Inc., backed by Audax Private Equity
Acted for Day & Zimmermann, a family-owned company with a workforce of 41,000 specializing in construction & engineering, operations & maintenance, staffing, security and defence solutions for leading corporations and governments around the world, in its acquisition of EMC Power Canada Ltd., an Ontario-based specialized trade services and construction company
Acted for Desjardins Capital Markets, leader of a syndicate of underwriters, in connection with a bought deal private placement raising gross proceeds of $70.75 million for Savaria Corporation (TSX:SIS)
Acted for Antech Diagnostics, part of Mars Petcare, in its acquisition of Biovet, a biotechnology company
Acted for Bell Media in its acquisition of leading indoor-advertiser Newad
Acted for Epiroc (STO:EPI-A) in its acquisition of Fordia, a Canadian exploration tools manufacturer
Acted for Uniprix and its shareholders in its multi-million dollar acquisition by McKesson Canada by way of a CBCA plan of arrangement.
Acted for a major international producer and distributor in its multi-million dollar acquisition by an institutional investor.
Acted for an international logistics corporation in two strategic vendor-financed leveraged buy-outs.
Acted for a major international manufacturer in a $275 million refinancing.
Acted for an international engineering and construction firm in a $45 million refinancing.
Acted for an international high-tech corporation involved in a joint venture structured fund relating to a multimillion dollar financing deal involving governance, M&A, shareholder and unit holder issues.

Beyond our Walls

Professional Involvement

Member, Canadian Bar Association
Member, Law Society of Ontario
Member, Barreau du Québec

Community Involvement

Volunteer, EBO Financial Education Centre, Income Tax Program, Ottawa

Awards & Recognition

Recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada - Ones to Watch™ (Corporate Law)

Bar Admission & Education

Québec, 2017
Ontario, 2017

J.D., University of Ottawa, 2016
LL.L., University of Ottawa, 2015
B.A., Concordia University, 2011

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