Greg Hollingsworth > Lawson Lundell LLP > Calgary, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Lawson Lundell LLP Offices
SUITE 3700, 205-5TH AVENUE SW
BOW VALLEY SQUARE 2
CALGARY, ALBERTA, T2P 2V7
Canada
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Greg Hollingsworth
Work Department
Business Taxation; Corporate Commercial Law; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity & Venture Capital
Position
Greg is both a lawyer and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) who practices in the areas of business law, mergers and acquisitions, and taxation. Greg’s combined legal, taxation and accounting background enables him to advise clients on both the commercial and taxation aspects of transactions. Clients and their financial advisers particularly value his unique ability to converse with them at a high level on financial and accounting matters.
A significant part of Greg’s practice is focused on the formation of private equity funds and M&A transactions involving private equity funds. Greg is the head of Lawson Lundell’s Private Equity Group and is recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2023) as ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in the area of Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity law. He acts for a number of private equity clients including CAI Capital Partners, Highland West Capital, Lighthouse Equity Partners, Fulcrum Capital Partners Inc. (formerly, HSBC Capital (Canada) Inc.), Parallel49 Equity (formerly Tricor Pacific Capital Inc.), Stern Partners, Beedie Capital Partners, Yellow Point Equity Partners, Breakwater Management LP, Arviat Equity Partners, and Headland Capital Partners,
Greg has acted for both CVCA ‘Deal of the Year’ award recipients (2007, 2014 and 2022) and ACG Vancouver ‘Deal of the Year’ award recipients (2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019).
Greg qualified as a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) in 1988 while working with Ernst & Young in Toronto. He joined Lawson Lundell in 1992 and worked in both the Business Law and Tax Groups of the firm until 1999. Between 1999 and 2004, Greg worked in Dublin, Ireland with William Fry, Solicitors, one of Ireland’s top corporate-commercial law firms, where he practiced both corporate-commercial and taxation law in the Technology and Taxation Groups of the firm. His practice in Ireland focused primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and inbound and outbound investment. Greg re-joined Lawson Lundell in 2005 upon his return to Canada.
Education
CICA In Depth Tax Course (1997)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver British Columbia (LL.B., 1992)
Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA, 1988)
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario (B.Comm., 1986)
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Corporate and M&A
Lawson Lundell LLP leverages the expertise of its team to advise domestic and multinational corporates across sectors ranging from tech, mining, forestry, energy and financial services to manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and real estate, on corporate governance, corporate finance and securities, M&A, fund formations and pension fund transactions. The practice is headed by a trio of M&A experts: Valerie Mann, who heads the firm’s technology law practice, and who acts for private equity and venture capital funds; Jagdeep Shergill, a specialist in pension plans; and David Allard, an expert in corporate reorganizations and restructurings and corporate governance matters. Other key figures include Greg Hollingsworth, who draws on a tax and accounting background; Amaan Gangji, who frequently handles cross-border M&A work with Allard; Andrew Robertson, whose transactional experience spans such industries as insurance, forestry and food and beverages, and Jack Yong, the leader of the Vancouver office’s Asia Pacific Group. All the lawyers mentioned work in Vancouver.