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Marvin Yontef provides counsel on commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, banking and project finance, securities offerings, corporate reorganizations and restructurings. He also provides strategic and other legal advice to boards of directors, as well as commercial and investment bankers.

Marvin joined the firm after almost 40 years at another leading Canadian firm where he was lead counsel on many of the country's highest profile engagements. He is a director of the Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation, which is part of the University Health Network. Marvin has been a director of a number of public and closely held companies, and charitable organizations, including the Air Canada group of companies in recent years.

Marvin is a frequent keynote speaker and panellist at professional, academic and commercial conferences on topics related to mergers and acquisitions, fiduciary responsibilities and business restructurings.

Numerous legal publications recognize Marvin as a leader in his field, including The Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Banking, Finance & Transactional Lawyers, The Lexpert/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, The Lexpert Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada and Lexpert's Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada. He is AV® Peer Review Rated (Very High to Pre-eminent) according to Martindale-Hubbell, its highest level of professional ranking.

Education

Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1969 Harvard Law School, LLM, 1971 

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 1972

Recent Experience

At Bennett Jones

The independent members of the Board of Directors of Performance Sports Group Ltd. in connection with proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited in connection with its proposed US$28 billion merger with Norfolk Southern Corp. 

Canadian counsel to Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and Hutchison Whampoa Limited, in connection with a $84 billion (implied enterprise value) reorganization and combination of their respective businesses and the separation of their non- property and property businesses into two new Hong Kong-listed companies, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited and Cheung Kong Property Holdings Limited. The transaction also involved a transfer of approximately 6% percent of the shares of Husky Energy Inc.

Advising several clients with respect to potential strategic investments, major corporate acquisitions and defense considerations with unsolicited and hostile approaches from third parties

Prior Experience

Lead counsel in Canada on the following indicative engagements:

Mergers & Acquisitions

Dundee Corporation in the $2.3 billion sale of Dundee Wealth Inc., and on related transactions

Domestic and non-resident banks, insurance companies, other financial institutions, industrial and resource corporations, boards of directors, board committees and other commercial entities on a wide range of completed and potential acquisitions, dispositions, going private transactions, defence assignments and other strategic engagements

Capital Markets & Securities

In conjunction with the Air Canada insolvency and corporate reorganization, the creation and launch into public markets in North America of Ace Aviation, Air Canada, Aeroplan/Aimia and Jazz Aviation/Chorus Aviation

Insolvency & Corporate Restructurings

Air Canada—the largest debt restructuring in Canadian history and the "deal of the year" at the time

Smurfit Stone in connection with its cross-border insolvency filings, DIP financing and successful exit from debtor protection

Private Equity

Apax Partners (and OMERS) in connection with the US $7.5 billion of Thomson Learning Higher Education assets

Cerberus Capital Management in connection with announced proposed acquisitions of Royal Group and United Rentals

Infrastructure

Non-resident infrastructure investors in conjunction with potential projects and Government privatization initiatives

Province of Ontario (Infrastructure Ontario) on the proposed development and participation in the Ring of Fire mineral deposits

Recent Recognition

Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business
Ranked, Corporate/M&A
The Legal 500 Canada
Recommended, Corporate and M&A
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Consistently Recommended, Corporate Commercial Law and Mergers & Acquisitions
Repeatedly Recommended, Private Equity

 

Best Lawyers in Canada
Recognized for Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities Law 
Legal Media Groups Guide to the World's Leading Banking Finance and Transactional Lawyers
Recognized as a leader in corporate governance
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
Received an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating
Lexpert Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada
Recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of mergers & acquisitions
Lexpert/Report on Business Special Edition - Canada's Leading Corporate Lawyers
Recognized as a leading corporate lawyer in Canada
Recognized as a leading infrastructure lawyer in Canada
PLC MA Multi-Jurisdictional Guide
Highly recommended in Corporate/M&A
Who's Who Legal Canada
Recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of mergers and acquisitions
Who's Who Legal Mergers Acquisitions
Recognized as world's leading M&A and governance lawyers
Who's Who Legal The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
Recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of corporate governance

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Bennett Jones' Best Lawyers in Canada 2022

August 26, 2021
       

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Bennett Jones in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2018

November 01, 2018
       

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