• About
  • Offices
  • Careers
  • Students
  • Alumni
  • Payments
Logo Bennett Jones
  • People
  • Expertise
  • Resources
  • Search
  • Menu
  • Search Mobile
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z All

FEATURED AREAS

Energy
Funds & Finance
Mining
Capital Projects
All Industries
Crisis & Risk Management
Environmental, Social & Governance
Governmental Affairs & Public Policy
All Practices
Insights
Media
Events
Subscribe
COVID-19 Resource Centre
Business Law Talks Podcast
Kickstart
New Energy Economy Series
People
Featured Areas
All Practices
All Industries
About
Offices
Careers
Insights
Law Students
Events
Search
Search
 

Christopher A. Travascio

Associate

Associate | Email

T: 416.777.5495

Email

Toronto

Download vCard
Download PDF
Travascio Chris
 
  • Recent Experience
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services

T: 416.777.5495


Email

Toronto

Download vCard
Download PDF
  • Education
  • Bar Admissions
  • Recent Experience
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services
  • Recent Experience
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services

Christopher Travascio has a broad corporate commercial practice, with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, shareholder arrangements, and corporate reorganizations. Christopher's experience in corporate finance includes advising issuers and investment dealers on public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, both domestically and cross-border. Christopher represents a wide variety of emerging companies and large publicly traded issuers in the technology, media and entertainment market, as well as a number of leading venture capital firms.

Prior to joining Bennett Jones as an associate, Christopher summered and articled with the firm. While articling, Christopher was seconded to the Enforcement branch of the Ontario Securities Commission. Christopher is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association and is also a registered notary public.

Education

Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School of Management, BComm, 2010 University of Toronto, JD, 2014 

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 2015

Recent Experience

Securities
Mergers & Acquisitions
Canaccord Genuity Corp., on its behalf and on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters, in the pre-RTO brokered private placement of subscription receipts of Liquid Meta Capital Holdings Ltd. for aggregate gross proceeds of approx. US$20 million.
Canaccord Genuity Corp., as sole agent and sole bookrunner, in the brokered treasury and secondary private placement of common shares of BET99 (Sports Venture Holdings Inc.) for aggregate gross proceeds of $15.5 million.
Canaccord Genuity Corp., as sole agent and sole bookrunner, in the oversubscribed $7.47 million initial public offering of common shares of Nepra Foods Inc. (CSE: NPRA).
Canaccord Genuity Corp., in an up to $10-million at-the-market equity program for the sale of common shares pursuant to an equity distribution agreement with Tetra-Bio Pharma Inc. (TSX: TBP, OTCQX: TBPMF).
Canaccord Genuity Corp., on its behalf and on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters, in the bought deal public offering of units of QuestCap Inc. for gross proceeds of $5 million.
Clearpath Robotics, in numerous matters, including financings that included Canadian and U.S.-based venture capital investors, and its credit facility with Silicon Valley Bank.
Canaccord Genuity Corp., on its behalf and on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters, in the bought deal public offering of units of ESE Entertainment Inc. for gross proceeds of $8.6-million.
Canaccord Genuity Corp., on its behalf and on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters, in the “bought deal” private placement of units of GameSquare Esports Inc. for gross proceeds of $8.5-million.
Canaccord Genuity Corp., as sole agent and sole bookrunner, in the brokered private placement of units of Medivolve Inc. for aggregate gross proceeds of $5 million.
Canaccord Genuity Corp., as lead agent, in the brokered private placement of units and flow-through shares of NioBay Metals Inc. for aggregate gross proceeds of $11.5 million.
Cresco Labs Inc., in a public offering of 7,350,000 units at a price per unit of $10.00 for gross proceeds of $73,500,000.
District Ventures, in its equity investment in seven companies as part of its accelerator program.
Gold Flora, LLC, in its private placement offering of debenture units for aggregate gross proceeds of over US$14 million.
TerrAscend Corp., in its non-brokered private placement of common shares for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $69 million.
A syndicate of agents, led by Canaccord Genuity Corp., in the brokered private placement of units of LiveWell Foods Canada Inc. for aggregate gross proceeds of $10 million.
Canaccord Genuity Corp., as sole agent and sole bookrunner, in the brokered private placement of special warrants of CLS Holdings USA, Inc. for aggregate gross proceeds of $13 million.
Canaccord Genuity Corp., as sole agent and sole bookrunner, in the brokered private placement of convertible debentures of Central Coast Agriculture, Inc. for aggregate gross proceeds of up to US$25 million.
A syndicate of agents, led by Canaccord Genuity Corp., in the brokered private placement of convertible debentures of CLS Holdings USA, Inc. for aggregate gross proceeds of up to US$20 million.
Cresco Labs LLC, in its $2.2-billion reverse takeover transaction and public listing on the Canadian Securities Exchange.
District Ventures, in formation of venture capital fund and fund investments in companies in the consumer packaged goods industry.
Opus One Energy Solutions, in a financing by two U.S.-based venture capital investors.
Clearpath Robotics, in numerous matters, including financings that included Canadian and U.S.-based venture capital investors.
Book4Time, in financing matters.
OMERS Ventures LP, in its participation in the $6 million Series A funding round of Fusebill Inc.
Park Lawn Corporation, in the $24.2-million bought deal prospectus offering of 2,105,400 subscription receipts in December, 2015 - Counsel to syndicate of underwriters led by National Bank Financial Inc.
Dye & Durham Limited, a leading provider of cloud-based software and technology solutions for legal and business professionals, in its $530-million acquisition of DoProcess LP, an Ontario-based provider of practice-specific software for legal professionals, from OMERS Infrastructure.
Kensington Capital Partners and Kensington Private Equity Fund, in the $35-million acquisition and related financing through its portfolio company, Clearpoint Health Network Inc., of the surgical and medical centres business of Centric Health Corporation, a TSX listed company, and subsequent reorganization of Clearpoint. Kensington Capital Advisors Inc. is a leading independent investor in alternative assets with over $1.5 billion invested in private equity and alternative assets.
Cresco Labs Inc., in its acquisition of Tryke Companies, including the Reef Dispensary Portfolio, for US$252.5 million for Tryke operating assets plus US$30 million for Tryke real estate assets.
Brainlabs, a portfolio investment of Livingbridge and a leading data-led marketing agency, in its acquisition of Canadian programmatic buying and Google marketing platform consultants, MediaNet.
Datasite LLC, a portfolio company of CapVest Partners LLP, in its acquisition of Firmex Inc., a leading virtual data room and subscription file-sharing provider.
ECI Software Solutions, in its acquisition of Shoptech Industrial Software Corp., a provider of ERP software for job shops and made-to-order manufacturers.
Institutional investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management in the acquisition of Contanda, a provider of bulk liquid storage and logistics services, from EQT Infrastructure II Fund
ECi Software Solutions Inc., in its acquisition of Print Audit.
ECi Software Solutions Inc., in its acquisition of Lasso Data Systems.
ECi Software Solutions Inc., a leader in industry-specific information technology solutions, in its acquisition of PrintFleet Inc.
Cresco Labs, in its $1.1-billion acquisition of Origin House.
Toronto-based FlashStock Technology Inc., in its sale to Shutterstock, Inc., a leading global provider of commercial digital imagery, for approximately US$50 million.
Special Committee of Halogen Software Inc., in a $293-million acquisition by way of plan of arrangement. 
Fluorinov Pharma Inc., a privately-held oncology company, in its $10-million acquisition by Trillium Therapeutics Inc.

Insights, News & Events

Blog

Securities Regulators Provide Guidance to Improve Transparency for Reporting Issuers in the Cannabis Industry, Providing Lessons for All

December 16, 2019
       

In the News

Bennett Jones Acts for ECi Software Solutions in Cross-Border Acquisition

January 04, 2018
       

Related Services

Commercial Transactions
Technology, Media & Entertainment
Capital Markets
Mergers & Acquisitions
Also of Interest:
  • Offices
  • People Search Results
  • Evan Stein

The firm that businesses trust with their most complex legal matters.

  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Terms of Use

© Bennett Jones LLP 2022. All rights reserved. Bennett Jones refers collectively to the Canadian legal practice of Bennett Jones LLP and the international legal practices and consulting activities of various entities which are associated with Bennett Jones LLP

Logo Bennett Jones