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(Disponible en anglais seulement) Kathleen Ritchie is a partner in Gowlings' Toronto office and leader of the Firm's Corporate Finance and M&A National Practice Group. She practises securities and corporate law with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, public company requirements and corporate finance.
Kathleen's M&A practice involves providing advice on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including takeover and issuer bids, plans of arrangement and amalgamations, as well as sales of businesses and assets, for both public and private companies. Kathleen has been involved in several MI 61-101 transactions.
Kathleen's corporate governance experience includes advising boards of directors and management on corporate governance structures, policies, best practices and external rankings, executive and board compensation, shareholder rights plans and officer and director liability. She also advises subsidiaries of public companies, private companies and not-for-profit organizations on corporate governance matters.
Kathleen also advises public companies on regulatory requirements, including timely and continuous disclosure requirements, other securities regulatory requirements, stock exchange requirements, regulatory review of disclosure and transactions and matters relating to shareholder meetings.
Kathleen's corporate finance practice involves acting on behalf of public companies in public offerings and private placements of both equity and debt securities, including bought deal financings, secondary offerings, special warrant transactions, private placements of shares, bonds, warrants and convertible debt and commercial paper programs.
Kathleen also provides general corporate and commercial law advice to Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. public companies.
From October 2000 through to February 2001, Kathleen was seconded to a client of the Firm on a part-time basis to work primarily on corporate/contracting matters.
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