Mogan Daniels Slager LLP

Mogan Daniels Slager LLP ("MDS")is Western Canada’s leading boutique law firm focused on mergers & acquisitions, private equity and strategic corporate advice. MDS is committed to delivering high value and exceptional, attentive service to every client.

MDS has been able to attract and retain a high quality team through its commitment to excellence, while also offering its people the camaraderie, agility and focus of a boutique firm operating at the very top of its market. The MDS team is knowledgeable, has a breadth of experience, and its talented lawyers and paralegals are continually evolving their unique processes to deliver exceptional outcomes and a highly-satisfying client experience.

As an industry leader in mid-market transaction services, both within Canada and in connection with inbound and outbound cross-border transactions, MDS is uniquely positioned to advise its clients, offering principled and pragmatic solutions and a deep understanding of the ever-changing marketplace.

Mergers and Acquisitions 

MDS represents entrepreneurs, corporations, private equity funds and family offices, both as investors/buyers and as vendors, in a range of share, asset, and hybrid transactions and sale of equity to financial and strategic buyers. MDS has experience acting in transactions ranging from less than $5 million to more than $700 million enterprise value, and is known for getting its transactions closed, often in complex circumstances.

The Firm's well-developed project management skills, deep market awareness and effective transaction execution processes allow it to offer high-value, fixed-fee arrangements on many of its transactions.

Private Equity 

A significant part of MDS' practice consists of guiding and assisting private equity funds, family offices and other stakeholders on a variety of transactions and other matters throughout the private equity life cycle, such as:

·Structuring, formation, governance and administration of PE funds

·Financing and co-investment, including private placements and senior and subordinated debt financing

·M&A, including platform and bolt-on acquisitions

·Restructurings and corporate and tax-driven reorganizations

·General corporate and commercial support for portfolio companies

·Recapitalization and exit transactions 

MDS has extensive experience acting from the perspective of all private equity participants--funds (and fund managers), investors, founders and management teams.

Strategic Corporate Advice 

MDS focuses its strategic corporate advice on assisting clients with complex corporate arrangements. Building on its experience noted above, MDS advises on and prepares documentation for a broad range of business arrangements including shareholders agreements, partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, partner buyouts, confidentiality agreements, and employee ownership, incentive and options programs.