Phillip G. Bevans, LL.M.
Partner
Direct Line: (416) 369-4102
Fax Number: (416) 864-9223
Email: pbevans@mindengross.com
Practice Area:
Corporate Finance; Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; 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.
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 graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1984 with an LL.M. in Business Law. He is also a graduate of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. He has also completed the Negotiation Workshop at Harvard Law School and various courses in the securities industry.
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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