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Ian Michael is a seasoned legal advisor to stakeholders in complex transactions.

Ian Michael's corporate law practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions and infrastructure investments involving private equity investments and public companies, corporate finance, and aviation infrastructure consortia. He has worked extensively with international investors in connection with their Canadian investments and acquisitions. He works with boards of directors, senior executives and private equity investors in a range of industries including aviation, real estate, technology and automotive.

Ian previously served as a member of the Securities Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). SAC provides advice to the Commission on a variety of matters including legislative and policy initiatives and important capital markets trends. Ian is also a former secondee member of the Mergers & Acquisitions team at the OSC.

Ian has been repeatedly recommended by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Corporate Finance and a key lawyer by The Legal 500 Canada in Transport – Aviation. In addition to his extensive mergers & acquisitions recognition, Ian's work with aviation infrastructure investments at most international airports in Canada and with the aviation industry in general has earned him a Chambers ranking in the area of Transportation – Aviation as well as recognition by Lexpert as a leading infrastructure lawyer in Canada.

Beyond his professional accomplishments, Ian has taught mergers & acquisitions sessions as part of securities law programs at Western University the University of Windsor, Queen's University and at the Schulich School of Business. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of St. Andrew's College and Chair of its Governance Committee. When schedule and wind conditions permit, Ian can be found applying his former pilot skills to kiteboarding.

Client Work

Morrison Hershfield Group Inc. with the private company arrangement in its sale to Stantec Consulting Ltd.
Safety Express Ltd. (an Aramsco company) in its acquisition of Sycorp Environmental.
S.i. Systems, a portfolio company of Quad-C Management, in its sale by Quad-C and management shareholders to Cornell Capital and Torquest Partners.
PowerSchool in its acquisition of Chalk.com Education.
Trillium Health Partners, together with Partners Community Health, in the acquisition of the Camilla Care Community long-term care facility from Sienna Senior Living in a hybrid transaction where Trillium Health Partners acquired the land and building for future hospital expansion and Partners Community Health acquired the long term care bed licenses and operations of the facility.
Urban Life Solutions, a portfolio company of Signal Hill Equity Partners, completed the acquisition of P. Munro Group Inc.

Recognitions & Awards

Chambers Canada

Transportation: Aviation

Legal 500 Canada

Key Lawyer, Transport: Aviation

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Commercial Law
Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Finance & Securities
Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Mid-Market
Repeatedly Recommended, Mergers & Acquisitions
Repeatedly Recommended. Private Equity

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Health Sciences Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Health Sciences lawyer

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Infrastructure Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Infrastructure lawyer

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Finance and M&A Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Finance and M&A lawyer

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • Queen's University, BA, 1996
  • Queen's University, LLB, 1999

Bar Admissions

  • Ontario, 2001

Insights

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Getting the Deal Through in Private M&A in Canada

December 30, 2022
John M. MercuryJames T. McClaryIan C. Michael
& 2 more
Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Decarbonizing Canadas Aviation IndustryBlog

Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Decarbonizing Canada's Aviation Industry

December 20, 2022
Ashley M. WhiteIan C. MichaelLaura C. Glover
Ashley M. White, Ian C. Michael & Laura C. Glover