Investment Funds: Fund Formation
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 3
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+1 416 979 2211About
Provided by Goodmans LLP
Goodmans is internationally recognized as one of Canada’s top private equity law firms. We are trusted partners on some of the industry’s most complex transactions, offering bespoke, innovative and practical solutions to meet client needs. We represent funds throughout their lifecycles, from structuring, formation and fundraising through acquisitions, exits and ultimately the formation of successor funds.
Combined with our deep expertise, the close relationships we develop with our clients have made us trusted advisors to many prominent Canadian and foreign private equity sponsors and pension funds, in connection with their direct portfolio company investments. The extensive activities of our sophisticated investor client base provides us with considerable visibility into the structures and terms of a wide variety of real estate, private equity and other investment funds, further strengthening our understanding of the market.
We stay at the nexus of Canada’s venture capital community. Through these partnerships, we extend advice, mentorship, and networking connections to emerging companies and the investors we track, and we have successfully linked growth companies to investment capital on numerous occasions.
Chambers Review
Goodmans is a Toronto law firm with a compact investment fund practice that is acknowledged for its representation of domestic and cross-border private equity and pension funds. The team wins recognition for its experience in the private equity secondary market and has considerable experience in the structuring and formation of funds.
Work Highlights
- Goodmans assisted Fengate Asset Management with the formation of two private equity funds and the subsequent transfer of seed properties.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team at Goodmans is responsive and provides great service."
"The Goodmans team is very strong and has a deep bench that is capable of handling complex and sophisticated matters."
"The lawyers are timely, helpful and commercial."
"The team at Goodmans is responsive and provides great service."
"The Goodmans team is very strong and has a deep bench that is capable of handling complex and sophisticated matters."
"The lawyers are timely, helpful and commercial."
Notable Practitioners
David Matlow is a Toronto-based lawyer who maintains a longstanding reputation in the fund formation space.