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Kirk Emery

Associate

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T: 416.777.5496

Toronto

Emery Kirk
 
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T: 416.777.5496


Toronto

  • Education
  • Bar Admissions
  • Recent Experience
  • Related Services
  • Recent Experience
  • Related Services

Kirk Emery practices corporate law with a focus on complex transactions involving:

  • Mergers & acquisitions, including private equity and other business combinations
  • Equity financings, including venture capital and other private placements
  • Corporate governance, including shareholder and partnership agreements
  • Commercial agreements, including supply and service agreements

Kirk advises in a range of industries with an emphasis on the technology space.

Kirk is counsel on domestic and cross-border transactions involving assets in Canada and elsewhere. He regularly advises US businesses on North-bound investments.

His clients include public companies, investment funds, family businesses, and emerging disruptors.

Kirk is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association, the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, the American Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association.

Kirk's professional involvement includes serving as Managing Editor of the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, President of the McGill Business Law Association, student lecturer of the McGill Legal Ethics and Advocacy Course, Vice-President of the McGill Law Students' Association, Councilor of the Students' Society of McGill University, Councilor of the Saint Mary's University Alumni Association, and volunteer at public interest groups.

Education

Saint Mary's University, BA (Hons), 2009 McGill University, LLB, 2013 McGill University, BCL, 2013

Bar Admissions

New York, 2013 Nova Scotia, 2014 (non-practising) Ontario, 2018

Recent Experience

Mergers & Acquisitions
Securities/Capital Markets
Venture Capital
Corporate Governance
Secured Lending
TerraVest Industries Inc., in its acquisition of MaXfield Group Inc. valued at $21 million.
A CSE-listed pharmaceutical company with its $50-million cross-border acquisition of a nutraceutical company.
The vendor of a $45-million office, retail, and residential real estate development to a TSX-listed REIT.
A TSX-listed grocery store chain with its acquisition of grocery stores.
A telecommunications company with its acquisition of a cable television provider.
A sovereign wealth fund with its cross-border acquisition of an insolvent mining company.
One of North America’s largest private automotive dealership groups with acquisitions of approx. $375-million worth of dealerships.
Public and private cannabis companies with acquisitions of licensed producers and related businesses.
A Fortune-500 company with its employee stock option plan.
A Canadian bank with its $10-billion issuance of covered bonds as part of its $40-billion global program.
A Canadian bank with its $7-billion issuance of convertible preferred shares.
A TSX-listed mining company with a private placement.
A private technology company with its $80-million issuance of Class C shares.
A private medical company with its first round of venture capital funding.
A public institution owned by federal, provincial, and municipal governments with respect to ethics policies.
A public institution owned by provincial and municipal governments with respect to strategy, and rights and duties of stakeholders.
Continued a national sports not-for-profit association into a new legislative framework and prepared new organizational documents.
Drafted by-laws for a provincial sports not-for-profit association.
A TSX-listed REIT with a $500-million syndicated borrowing secured by 50 commercial properties in 8 provinces.
A TSX-listed hotel chain as borrower with its $85-million re-financing.
One of North America’s largest private automotive dealership groups as borrower with its $450-million syndicated financing.
The lead lender, a public agriculture lender, and the borrower, a commercial farming company, in a $26-million syndicated financing.
A New York-based private lender with preserving its security over the assets of a gold mining company throughout an insolvency.

Related Services

Commercial Transactions
Mining
Biotech, Pharma & Lifesciences
Mergers & Acquisitions
Banks & Financial Institutions
Venture Capital
Capital Markets
Technology, Media & Entertainment
Corporate Governance

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