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Barry J. Reiter

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Barry’s focus is on helping clients achieve corporate development, finance and governance objectives.

As Chair of the Technology, Media & Entertainment Group, Barry represents start-up, growth and mature companies, and related private and public financing sources on: corporate and other business structuring; public and private financings; the protection and commercialization of intellectual property; licensing and other distribution arrangements; strategic alliances, partnerships and joint ventures; IPOs and stock exchange listings; mergers and acquisitions; and restructurings.

Leading the Corporate Governance & Director Protection practice, Barry regularly advises boards, directors and management teams on governance, director protection (directors' duties, indemnification and insurance) and risk management (including financial, operational and cyber risk, and risk transfer) matters. He is an experienced director and has chaired boards and various board committees for public, private, non-profit, regulatory and governmental companies. Current board roles include: Baylin Wireless Technologies (Lead Director), Think Research (Chair Corporate Governance), StarTech.com (Advisory Council) and RIMES Technologies.

Formerly a law professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Barry has written extensively on contracts, corporate governance, advisory boards and joint ventures. He is one of the lead authors of Directors' Duties in Canada, 7th Edition (LexisNexis 2021).

Education

York University, BA, 1969 Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1972, gold medallist Oxford University (UK), BCL, 1974 

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 1977

Recent Experience

Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA), in its administration of PACE Credit Union.
Special Committee of Halogen Software Inc., in Saba's $293-million acquisition by way of plan of arrangement. 
StarTech.com Ltd., in connection with shareholder, executive and corporate development matters.
OMERS Ventures LP, in connection with most of its investments, including in InteraXon, League, Klipfolio, Ranovus, Wattpad, Shopify, Vidyard, LeadSift, 360Incentives.com, Vision Critical, Desire2Learn, Hopper, Sweet Tooth and AppHero. 
The Board of Directors of Sears Canada, in Sears' CCAA proceedings, one of the largest court-supervised liquidations in Canadian history.
FlashStock Technology Inc., in its sale to Shutterstock, Inc., a leading global provider of commercial digital imagery, for approximately US$50 million.
District Ventures, in formation of venture capital fund and fund investments in companies in the consumer packaged goods industry.
mDialog Corporation, in connection with corporate development and its acquisition by Google Inc.
Acquisition of Canadian medical diagnostic services provider CML HealthCare Inc. by LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services for C$1.22 billion.
Represented certain shareholders of SkyPower Limited in Canadian Solar Inc.'s $185-million purchase of a majority interest in SkyPower Limited and related joint venture and commercial arrangements.
Klick Inc., in connection with various shareholder and corporate development matters.
Entrust Limited, in a $500-million revolving credit facility led by Wells Fargo Capital Finance LLC.
SMART Technologies Inc., in its initial public offering, corporate governance, and directors' and officers' indemnity and insurance programs.
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc., in various transactions over the 15 years culminating in the $2.3-billion sale of the company to Goldman Sachs and CanWest by way of plan of arrangement.
Cognos Incorporated, in securities laws issues, its director's and officer's indemnity and insurance program, corporate governance, and other corporate matters.
Irving Oil Limited, in independent representation of the Board of Directors.
Payments Canada, in enhancing its corporate governance processes, and in connection with various matters relating to its payment modernization project.
Syncapse Corp., a social media marketing company, in corporate development, and angel and venture capital financings.
RuggedCom Inc., in its $46-million initial public offering, governance matters, general corporate matters and sale of the company.
Bank of Canada, in corporate governance.
Corel (and an independent directors' committee of the board), in a U.S. tender offer by controlling shareholder Vector Capital.
Spatial View Entertainment Inc., in representation of this start-up software company.
Orlando Corporation, in the development of corporate governance regime suitable to this private company.
Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry), in the successful resolution of shareholder litigation connected to RIM's review of historical option practices.
Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, in corporate governance.
SkyPower Corp., in the acquisition of an equity stake in the company by Lehman Brothers private equity business.
Special Committee of Mosaid Technologies Incorporated, in a proxy contest and a shareholder value project.
Special Committee of VOXCOM Income Fund, in a $109-million acquisition by way of take-over bid.
The Board of Directors of Vision Critical, in corporate governance matters.
The underwriters, led by Dundee Securities Corporation, in a $23-million bought deal financing by Bradmer Pharmaceuticals of common shares and warrants.
724 Solutions Inc., in structuring and implementing the privatization of the company by sale to Austin Ventures.
Algorithmics Inc., in corporate finance and development matters culminating in the US$175-million acquisition of the company by Fitch Group, Inc.
RBC Technology Ventures Inc., in its launch of domain-targeted early stage venture funds Foragen, Milestone Medica, ELab and Primaxis.
HUB International Limited, in acquisitions of insurance brokerage operations.
NFQ Ventures, in formation of venture capital fund and fund investments in early stage technology-based businesses.
Geminare Incorporated, in financings and commercial transactions.
Pharos Life Corporation, in corporate development, finance and sale to Syneron.

Recent Recognition

The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Consistently Recommended, Technology Transactions
Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Mid-Market; Private Equity
Lexpert Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada
Canada's Top 100 most creative lawyers
The Legal 500 Canada
Technology, Media and Telecom
Lexpert Directory
Technology Transactions, Corporate Mid-Market, Technology Transactions, Corporate Mid-Market, Private Equity, Corporate Finance & Securities
Best Lawyers in Canada
Recognized for Technology Law
Lexpert Special Edition on Technology
Recognized as one of Canada's leading lawyers in Technology
Lexpert Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada
Technology
Lexpert Guide to the Top 100 Industry Specialists in Canada
Technology
Lexpert Magazine
100 leading Canada/US Cross-border Corporate lawyers in Canada (Technology)
Who's Who Legal Canada
Corporate Governance

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