Pascal de Guise

Expertise

Business, Commercial and Corporate Law

• Corporate Finance
• Cross-Border Transactions
• Equity Financing
• Management Buyout
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Transfer of Family Businesses

Competition Law and Foreign Investment

Mining Law

Securities

• Dealers and Advisors
• Mergers and Acquisitions of Public Companies
• Private Placements
• Public Financing

Strategic Teams

• Business and Technology
• Corporate Governance and Compliance
• Life Sciences
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Natural Resources
• Securities

Professional background

Pascal de Guise is a partner in the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities and Business, Commercial and Corporate Law groups. He also co-leads the firm's natural resources swat team and leads the firm's knowledge management strategy.

Mr. de Guise’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, going-private transactions, private placements and governance and compliance matters. He regularly represents life science, natural resources, technology and retail issuers listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange as well as private corporations. Before joining BCF, Mr. de Guise practiced with another major Canadian law firm, at both its Montreal and New York offices.

Publications

• Author, Fascicule 9 "Offres publiques," JuriClasseur Québec - Valeurs mobilières, LexisNexis Canada Inc., 2010.
• Co-author, "The Quebec Stock Savings Plan Strikes Back", 2009 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.
• Co-author, “RÉA II: un retour tant attendu!”, Point de mire. Vol. 14, no. 4, July 2009.

Professional affiliations

• Canadian Bar Association
• Barreau du Québec
• Jeune Chambre de Commerce
• Vice-president of the securities committee of the Canadian Bar Association, Quebec Branch
• Copresident of the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum’s Les Printemps du MAC Committee
• Member of the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum’s Governance Committee
• Member of the Comité Aviseur Relève, Focus Stratégique Québec 2010

Conferences

• "The Latest in Corporate Law – what you need to know", BCF LLP, November 4, 2010.
• "The Latest in Corporate Law – what you need to know" (in collaboration), Financial Executives International Canada (Quebec branch), June 17, 2010.
• Organizer of the conference "Les conséquences pratiques de l’entrée en vigueur des normes internationales d’information financière (IFRS)", Canadian Bar Association, Quebec Branch, May 12, 2010.
• "La rédaction de contrats commerciaux : une question de style?" Insight, January 27 and 28, 2009.
• "Why are only 8% of the companies listed at the Toronto Stock Exchange from Quebec?", Canadian Bar Association, Quebec Branch, October 30, 2008.
• "SME FINANCING: Obstacles, Challenges, Solutions", Forum on Québec SME’s, Autorité des marchés financiers, September 25, 2007.

Representative work

• Counsel to Tetra Tech, Inc., a global consulting, engineering and construction firm based in Pasadena, California and listed on the NASDAQ, in the context of the acquisition of BPR, one of the largest independent engineering services firms in Canada, in 2010.
• Counsel to Groupe Bikini Village Inc., a Toronto Stock Exchange listed issuer, in the context of a rights offering and a concurrent private placement, in 2010.
• Counsel to Prometic Life Sciences Inc., a Toronto Stock Exchange listed issuer, in the context of a financing deal with U.S.-based Abraxis BioScience, Inc. for a total of US$13,000,000, in 2010.
• Counsel to Blue Note Mining Inc., a Canadian mineral exploration and mining company headquartered in Montreal, in the context of its acquisition of X-Ore Resources Inc., in 2010.
• Counsel to Blue Note Mining Inc. during its successful $56 million restructuring and listing on the TSX Venture Exchange, in 2009.
• Counsel to Uniprix Inc.’s board of directors in connection with an offer from McKesson Canada to purchase all outstanding shares of Uniprix, in 2009.
• Counsel to Prometic Life Sciences Inc. in the context of its final agreements with Abraxis BioScience, Inc. for the development and marketing on a world-wide basis (excluding China and Taiwan) of four biopharmaceutical products targeting undeserved medical conditions, 2008.
• Counsel to BriseboisCo in the context of its privatization of Isacsoft Inc, a provider of software business solutions, 2008.

Publications

• Nouvelles > "Manipulations" at the Contemporary Art Museum April 10th, 2012
• Alertes, Cas/Transactions > Blue Note Completes the Spinoff of its New Brunswick Properties to GeoVenCap March 28th, 2012
• Cas/Transactions > CIT/ABC Acquires the Assets of LAB Research Inc. May 18th, 2011

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