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Joe Zed

Partner

Toronto
[email protected]
416.350.2588

Expertise

Elizabeth Salvador

Practice Assistant

Toronto
[email protected]
416.367.6749
416.367.6080

Joe's practice focuses on public and private corporate finance transactions and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He also advises Canadian and international companies on a wide range of corporate governance and securities law compliance matters.

Joe routinely acts for various internationally based private equity funds in connection with the marketing and sale of funds into Canada.

Experience

  • Representative transactions include acting as counsel to:
    • Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. in connection with various securities offerings, including offerings in Canada and the United States of hybrid notes, a convertible debenture represented by instalment receipts, equity units, and various private placements of debt securities by its subsidiaries.
    • Medexus Pharmaceuticals Inc. in connection with two public offerings of units.
    • Primaris Real Estate Investment Trust in connection multiple private placement offerings of senior unsecured debentures and, separately, with its acquisitions of the Conestoga Mall and the Halifax Shopping Centre.
    • Sagen MI Canada Inc. in connection with its acquisition by its controlling shareholder, Brookfield Business Partners L.P., together with certain of Brookfield's affiliates and institutional partners.
    • Torstar Corporation in connection with its acquisition by NordStar Capital L.P.
    • TAAL Distributed Information Technologies Inc. in connection with its acquisition by its controlling shareholder.
    • The underwriters, led by Cormark Securities Inc., in connection with multiple public offerings of common shares by kneat.com, inc.
    • B.E.S.T. Venture Opportunities Fund in connection with the listing of its Class A shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange.
    • CI Financial Corp. in connection with its acquisition of a majority interest in Aligned Capital Partners Inc.; and separately, in connection with its acquisition of WisdomTree Asset Management Canada, Inc.
    • The vendors in connection with a sale of the assets of Atlantic Minerals Limited, consisting of a construction and chemical aggregates quarry and port operations in Newfoundland.
  • Matters listed include representations and engagements at a prior firm.

Awards & Recognition

  • Recognized as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer 2024 – Independently Rated Lawyers (as nominated by senior in-house counsel)
  • Recognized in the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada (Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
  • Recognized in the 2021 edition of The Legal 500 Canada (Rising Star – Capital Markets)

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 2013
  • JD, Dalhousie University, 2012
  • BA (with great distinction), McGill University, 2009