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Glen Johnson
Work Department
Capital Markets
Position
A leading lawyer in his field, Glen has a wealth of securities regulatory knowledge and capital markets experience guiding major underwriters and issuers in their domestic and cross-border equity and debt finance matters.
Glen regularly guides clients in their securities regulation and corporate finance matters, particularly in the area of domestic and cross-border securities offerings. He works with clients on a wide range of public equity and debt offerings, private placements and M&A transactions, with a particular emphasis on structured products.
Glen also counsels Canadian issuers and securities industry participants on regulatory compliance matters, including listings, governance and disclosure issues and regulation of market participants in Canada.
Career
Ontario Bar, 1994
Memberships
Glen is on the Securities Law Subcommittee of the Ontario Bar Association and is a past member of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission.
Glen has been an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Law School from 2007 to 2012, teaching the upper year securities regulation course. He has also spoken on securities regulatory issues at a number of conferences.
In the community, Glen serves as the Director and Chair on the Leadership and Governance Committee of the AIDS Committee of Toronto.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Capital markets
(Leading individuals)Split between Toronto and Calgary, Torys’ capital markets group leverages the wider firm’s robust financial services expertise to excel in complex debt offerings and structured finance matters. It is also well positioned to handle equity deals. In a highlight example of its practice sweet spot, Toronto-based David Seville recently advised Scotia Capital, and the syndicate of agents, on Scotiabank’s C$1.5bn public offering of limited recourse capital notes (LRCNS). On the equity side, Toronto’s Rima Ramchandani acted for Home Capital on its issuer bid for up to C$115m of its common shares. Calgary-based Scott Cochlan co-heads the department, together with Seville and Ramchandani, and handles a range of corporate and securities work. Other key contacts in Toronto include capital markets chair Kevin Morris; corporate finance partner Glen Johnson; securitization specialist Jim Hong; and talented senior associate Michael Murphy. Up-and-coming partner Michael Pedlow is noted in Calgary. Michael Feldman retired in December 2022, while associate Brett Saulnier left to join OPTrust.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and M&A
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Energy and natural resources > Power
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Cannabis
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Pensions
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Public procurement
- International trade
- Labour and employment