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Henry Harris is a partner in Gowlings' Toronto office, practising in the Corporate Finance and M&A National Practice Group. His practice focuses on public and private offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions and advising on securities regulatory requirements.
Henry advises both Canadian and foreign companies, investors and underwriters on all aspects of Canadian securities regulation, including Canada/U.S. cross-border transactions. Over the past several years he has also participated as a speaker at numerous business and legal seminars held across Canada, the United States and internationally.
In 2009, Henry was recognized as a "Canadian Corporate Lawyer to Watch" in the Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers. In addition, in 2008 Henry received the Lexpert Rising Star Award as one of Canada’s Leading Lawyers Under 40. Chosen among hundreds of nominees across Canada, this Top 40 under 40 award recognizes lawyers who are both leaders in the profession and the community as well as being team players with an outstanding track record of success.
Henry has assisted numerous emerging companies in their initial public offerings, as well as listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange. He has acted as lead counsel in various transactions, including IPOs, Capital Pool Companies and other public financing transactions, takeover bids and reverse takeovers, special warrant offerings and other private placement financings.
For the past 10 years, Henry has served on the Securities Law Subcommittee of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) and has also served as a member of the OBA Executive Council.
Henry completed the Canadian Securities Course from the Canadian Securities Institute, and has attended courses in New York on U.S. Securities Law.
Henry is lead Canadian counsel to the world's largest online auction marketplace. He has also served on Gowlings teams that acted for Hydro Ottawa on its $200 million cross-Canada offering of senior debentures, and acted for an agency of the Government of Ontario, established through a $1.12 billion capital infusion, to advise on a $320 million public offering of Ontario Opportunity Bonds used to assist municipalities in raising financing for infrastructure projects.
Henry recently served on a Special Committee of the Canadian Bar Association to review a proposal for National Securities Regulation in Canada, which included meeting with Finance Canada and the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation to provide input on the draft National Securities Act.
Henry has appeared live on Business News Network TV as a securities law specialist and is a frequent speaker on a broad range of topics in the area of corporate finance, including:
- Speaker, "2009 TSX Phoenix Cleantech Seminar" (Phoenix, February 2009)
- Speaker, “Managing a Public Company – Utilizing the Exchange” (Two-day workshop, TSX Venture Exchange, June 2009; May 2008 and 2007; June 2006; November 2005, 2004, 2003 and 2002)
- Speaker, “U.S. Companies - Going Public on Toronto Stock Exchange Workshop” (Raleigh, November 2008; Minneapolis, June 2008)
- Speaker, “Going Public in Canada on TSX” (The Israel Forum in Canada, April 2008)
- Speaker, “U.S. Companies - Going Public on Toronto Stock Exchange Workshop” (Palo Alto, November 2007; Denver, May 2007)
- Speaker, “An Outline for Israeli Tech Companies on the Canadian Capital Markets” (Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2007; November 2006)
- Chair and Moderator, “Cross-Border Deals – The Canadian Perspective” (BioFinance 2007)
- Speaker, “Rules & Tools Workshop - Role of the Board of Directors” (October 2007; February 2003 to 2007)
- Panellist, “Accessing Capital for U.S. Companies on TSX Venture Exchange – Panel of Experts” (Boston, November 2006)
- Panellist, “Accessing Public Venture Capital Workshop” (Inside Success Campaign, November 2005)
- Chair, “BioFinance 2005 – Funding Life Science Companies Panel” (May 2005)
- Speaker, “A Canadian Perspective of Cross-Boarder Business Law and Corporate Finance” (New York, April 2005)
- Speaker, “Entrepreneurial Bootcamp II: Public Venture Capital” (March 2005)
- Chair and Moderator, “Recent Trends in Venture Capital Financing and How Investors Look at Intellectual Property” (March 2005)
- Speaker, “Canadian Venture Forum – Sponsor Introductory Remarks” (March 2005)
- Speaker, “Venture Company Success Workshop – Continuous Disclosure Requirements” (TSX Venture Exchange, November 2004)
- Speaker, “Demystifying Corporate Governance” (TSX Venture Exchange, October 2004)
- Speaker, “Going Public: Accessing Public Venture Capital” (BioFinance 2004)
- Speaker, “Pros and Cons of Going Public” (Venture Success Campaign – Vancouver, April 2004; Toronto, June 2004)
- Speaker, “Venture Company Success Workshop – Continuous Disclosure Requirements” (TSX Venture Exchange, November 2003)
- Speaker, “Building the Governance Culture: Presentation to RBC Technology Ventures” (RBC Ventures, October 2003)
- Speaker, “Securities Law: Making Sense of It All: Update – The Current State of Affairs” (Ontario Bar Association, September 2003)
- Speaker, “Corporate Finance Learning Series – Role of the Board of Directors” (Gowlings Corporate Finance, Securities and Public M&A NPG Program (September 2003)
- Speaker, “Rules and Tools Workshop – Executive Compensation” (TSX Venture Exchange,
May-June 2003)
- Speaker, “Venture Company Success Workshop – Continuous Disclosure Requirements” (TSX Venture Exchange, December 2002)
- Chair, “Understanding Healthcare IT” (Gowlings Technology NPG Program, September 2002)
- Panellist, “Exempt Market Distributions – A National Comparison” (Gowlings Corporate Finance, Securities and Public M&A NPG Program, June 2002)
- Chair and Speaker, “Securities Cyberlaw: A Corporate Finance Internet Primer” (Ontario Bar Association, October 1999)
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