Capital Markets
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 2
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Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg provides sophisticated guidance to underwriters, issuers and private equity investors involved in complex capital markets transactions and financings across various sectors including mining, telecommunications and retail. The team demonstrates notable aptitude for cross-border and multi-jurisdictional mandates, with areas of focus including cross-border IPOs, private offerings and issuances of public debt. The firm regularly acts for large institutional clients in Québec, and clients further benefit from its well-reputed tax practice.
Work Highlights
- Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg assisted Lithium Royalty Corp with its CAD150 million initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The firm always delivers, even in complex or sophisticated matters. The group provides top-tier service. The team, from the partners to the associates, is highly collegial."
"They have a good grasp of the nature of our entity and our types of mandates. They work well in collaboration with our other advisers to complement their expertise."
"The firm always delivers, even in complex or sophisticated matters. The group provides top-tier service. The team, from the partners to the associates, is highly collegial."
"They have a good grasp of the nature of our entity and our types of mandates. They work well in collaboration with our other advisers to complement their expertise."
Notable Practitioners
David Wilson is particularly well known for his work on fixed-income offerings as part of a broader practice involving debt and equity issues. He operates out of Toronto.
"David is truly an exceptional lawyer with leading expertise and capabilities. He is very experienced, with strong communication skills and a commercial perspective."
Robert Murphy is a highly regarded Toronto-based capital markets practitioner whose experience extends to a variety of domestic and cross-border capital markets transactions, including those involving MJDS concerns. He acts for a number of major Canadian financial institutions in their role as underwriters.
"Robert Murphy is responsive, commercially reasonable and has the ability to take a view and understand the interconnectivity between the law and the practical nature of capital markets."
"Robert is a very detail-oriented, technical lawyer who understands a lot. He is our go-to at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg."