Phillip G. Bevans, LL.M.
Partner
Direct Line: (416) 369-4102
Fax Number: (416) 864-9223
Email: pbevans@mindengross.com
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Practice Area:
Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance; Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategic Counsel, General Corporate Law.
Phillip is a senior member of our
Corporate/Commercial Group. His practice
concentrates on matters involving corporate
finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions,
governance and strategic counsel, privatizations
and private/public partnerships.
His corporate finance and securities practice includes Canadian and cross-border public and private offerings of debt, equity, convertible and hybrid securities, stock exchange listings and other matters, for issuers and investment banks, mutual, investment, venture capital and other funds, limited partnerships and other investment vehicles, syndicated loan transactions, project financing, and interest and currency swaps.
Phillip's M & A experience involves public and private takeover bids, amalgamations, schemes of arrangements and other reorganizations and combinations and advising boards of directors, their special committees and their investment banking, accounting and other advisors.
Other securities and corporate governance experience includes acting for issuers, investment banks, accounting firms and others in securities law compliance matters, disclosure matters, meetings of shareholders and other security holders, conducting and responding to and dissident proxy solicitations, including court ordered meetings, and shareholder, joint venture and partnership disputes.
Experience in corporatizations, privatizations and public/private partnerships has included acting for foreign governments as legal and as financial advisor concerning requests for proposals, bids and negotiations, including advising bid review and negotiation committees, leading the restructuring of the industries concerned, including preparation of relevant legislation, and managing the process.
Phillip's other international experience, acting for governments, corporations, financiers and lenders, domestic and foreign, in many international transactions, has included international syndicated loans, infrastructure and project development and financing, joint ventures, and constitutional, administrative and litigation matters.
Sector experience includes financial services, utilities and infrastructure, energy, mining and natural resources, real estate development and management, sports and leisure activities, manufacturing, retail, e commerce, e business, telecommunications, broadcasting, pharmaceuticals, computer hardware and software and other high technology activities.
He has served as corporate secretary and a director of and general and special counsel to a number of corporations and has acted as advisor, coach and mentor to CEO's, COO's, CFO's and other senior executives and directors of public and private business and government organizations, including entrepreneurs and family owned or controlled businesses.
A number of transactions Phillip has led have been recognized as innovative, including the first back-end loaded mutual fund in Canada and the first limited partnership funding the payment of its selling commissions (which revolutionized the industry in Canada), the first Canadian sponsored mutual fund in Luxembourg, and one of the first Canadian sponsored immigration funds approved in Hong Kong.
Submissions
He has authored articles (cited as authorities by courts, text writers and otherwise), has spoken to various organizations and has made submissions to regulatory authorities concerning various corporate finance, securities and banking matters.
Phillip is presently enrolled in the doctoral program in law at Osgoode Hall Law School. His dissertation involves a comparison and assessment of various theories of corporate law and the development of a theory of the corporation as an organization the behaviour and process of whose constituents influences the outcome of its activities. He is also a Fellow in Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy at Osgoode Hall Law School and York University.
Teaching. Phillip has been a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, where he taught Corporate Governance, an upper year seminar course. He has also taught Business Associations, an upper year lecture course, at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Publications
His publications include two chapters in Current Issues in Canadian Business Law (Carswell: 1986), "Canadian Bankers' Acceptances" and "Consignment Transactions under the Personal Property Security Act". A recent paper that he co-authored, The Association of Transnational Law Schools' Agora: An Experiment in Graduate Legal Pedagogy", which originally appeared in the German Law Journal in 2009, has been among the Top Ten Downloads in its category on the Social Science Research Network.
Phillip has chaired panels and/or presented papers at conferences of the Association of Transnational Law Schools, the Program for Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy, and the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, as well as other legal and other professional groups, including the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association, and the Institute of Corporate Directors. His contributions to commercial legal and business publications include Nathan's Company Meetings (CCH, text and Webinar contributor), The Directors' Manual (CCH, editor), The Ultimate Corporate Counsel Guide (CCH, author), Directors' Briefing (CCH, author), and Corporate Brief (CCH).
Law School: University of Toronto; Osgoode Hall Law School
Year of Call: 1978
Year Joined the Firm: 2003 |
Affiliations:
Canadian Bar Association
Law Society of Upper Canada
Harvard Business School Club of Ontario
Harvard Club of Toronto
Institute of Corporate Directors
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