McCarthy Tétrault

Andrew Parker

Andrew is co-head of the firm’s National Capital Markets Practice and is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Group in Toronto. Recognized as a leader in his field, Andrew’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law in general, including corporate finance (both domestic and cross-border), mergers and acquisitions, collective investment vehicles and registration and licensing matters. Andrew’s expertise in equity and debt capital markets combined with his practical, thorough, and responsive approach consistently make him the top choice for clients with sophisticated corporate and securities matters. Highly regarded by a variety of key sources, Andrew is involved in both public and private offerings for issuers, investors and underwriters with extensive experience in debt capital markets transactions (including high yield offerings). Clients count on Andrew’s deep understanding of the technical aspects of securities law to help guide them through complex legal matters efficiently and effectively.

Patrick Boucher

Patrick is co-head of our National capital markets group. Patrick's practice focuses on securities and corporate law, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, take-over bids, private equity deals and public financings. He is counsel to issuers and underwriters in various public offerings (including initial public offerings) and private placements of publicly listed issuers. He participated in numerous take-over bids and going-private transactions of publicly listed issuers, and has acted as counsel to independent committees in connection with various transactions.

Jo-Anna Brimmer

Partner in the firm’s Business Law Group in Toronto. She has a structured finance, financial services and securities practice with a focus on securitization, covered bonds and debt capital markets transactions. Her recent cross-border transactional experience includes public and private securitization transactions covering a variety of asset classes, including auto and equipment loans and leases, dealer floorplan loans, HVAC and water heater rental contracts and trade receivables. She has also advised a number of Canadian financial institutions on the establishment of covered bond programmes and related international offerings. Regularly acts for issuers and underwriters in connection with public securities offerings and private placements, including secured and unsecured bond and limited recourse capital notes offerings.

Alyson Goldman

Alyson is a corporate lawyer who acts as counsel to various public and private companies, independent committees, underwriters and financial advisors on various securities and corporate law matters. Her extensive experience includes advising on public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, financial advisory matters, corporate governance matters, take-over bids, mergers, reorganizations and other business combinations, shareholder activism, proxy contests, stock exchange listing matters, regulatory compliance, and general corporate matters for public and private companies.

Marc MacMullin

Leader of the firm’s National Financial Services Group. Partner in the firm’s Toronto office with practice focusing on financial institutions, and capital market and structured finance transactions, including new issuer transactions, global covered bond programs (lead issuer counsel on a majority of the Canadian market covered bond programmes), cross-border transactions, asset-backed programs and novel capital market transactions. Acted as lead counsel on numerous public securitization transactions and global covered bond programs, both for issuers and underwriters. Extensive experience in innovative transactions and single-seller and multi-seller securitisation transactions for various asset classes, including credit card receivables, trade receivables, consumer loans, commercial mortgage and residential mortgage loan securitizations (CMBS and RMBS).