 Bennett Jones Education The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, BA, 2005, Magna Cum Laude, Dean's List The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LLB, 2010, Magna Cum Laude Bar Admissions Israel, 2011 Ontario, 2018 Overview Elad Travis practices corporate and securities law with particular emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity and corporate governance matters. Elad represents issuers and institutional investors in a wide range of financing transactions, including IPOs, RTOs, secondary offerings and private placements. Elad also acts for start-up companies in their efforts to raise capital in Canada. Elad is co-head of the firm’s Canada - Israel Initiative, which advises Israeli companies looking to raise capital or make investments in Canada or to expand their businesses into Canada, as well as Canadian companies looking to invest in Israel or to partner with Israeli companies. Elad is one of the founders of "The Maple & Honey Forum" (LinkedIn), which serves as a premier platform for investing and growing businesses interested in leveraging the Canada-Israel relationship. Prior to joining Bennett Jones, when practicing law in Israel, Elad focused on M&A transactions and competition law, representing a diverse set of clients from all areas of industry, in particular telecommunications and media as well as IT, natural resources exploration and pharmaceuticals. Experience • Working with Bluwatr on a Strategic Partnership by Bluwatr in Teeple Architects • Working with Bluwatr to form a fund with Bulldog Capital Partners to co-invest in architecture and engineering firms • Seegnal (an Israeli company offering a clinical decision-support platform) in its proposed public offering on the TSX-V • K.B. Recycling (an environmental technology company based in Israel) with corporate and securities law matters • Klick Group, the world's largest independent commercialization partner for life sciences, on the growth investment from Linden Capital Partners and GIC • Freed Developments Ltd. in its approximately $330-million acquisition of a portfolio of real property assets of including Horseshoe Valley Resort, Deerhurst Resort and some additional lands from Skyline Investments, together with the purchase of the portion of Muskoka Bay Resort it did not already own. • Assisting an Israeli renewable energy company with its entry into the Canadian market • Working on the formation of a strategic joint venture partnership in the self-storage sector • Klick Health in the spin out and financing of Sensei Labs division and its acquisition of Peregrine Market Access • Klick Health in connection with various matters including the spin out and financing of Sensei Labs division. • Assisting a US private equity firm in an asset acquisition of a sustainable packaging solution company • Assisting a major automobile company in its investment in a quantum computing startup • Working with a limited partnership owning retirement homes on a private equity financing and the buy-back of existing limited partners • Board of Directors of Sears Canada in Sears' CCAA proceedings, one of the largest court-supervised liquidations in Canadian history • iMD Health, in financing and M&A matters • Cresco Labs, in its US$207-million acquisition of Bluma Wellness Inc. a vertically integrated operator in Florida. • Acquisition of IBI Group Inc. by Arcadis NV for $873 million via a plan of arrangement. • Israeli medical device company, in its proposed initial public offering on the TSX-V • Israeli agri-tech company, in its proposed initial public offering on the TSX-V • Israeli food-tech company, in its proposed reverse takeover financing on the CSE, for gross proceeds of approximately $10 million. • NYSE-listed company, in the proposed spinout and listing of certain assets in a $1.2 billion initial public offering on the TSX. • Diversified, in its acquisition of the business of Advanced Presentation Products. • Cresco Labs, in its $1.1-billion acquisition of Origin House, the largest public company acquisition in the history of the U.S. cannabis sector. |