Guy Berman
Canada Guide 2025
Band 1 : Private Equity: Buyouts
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About
Provided by Guy Berman
Practice Areas
Guy’s practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments. He regularly helps clients in executing their transactional and investment work, including management and leveraged buyouts, majority and minority equity investments, divestitures, joint ventures, co-investments, shareholders arrangements, and fund and transaction structuring. Guy also advises Canadian pension funds and financial institutions on complex and cross-border matters.
Guy is fluent in Hebrew.
Chambers Review
Canada
Toronto-based Guy Berman has extensive experience advising on buyouts, public M&A and a variety of corporate structuring mandates.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Guy Berman is an amazing buyouts lawyer."
"Guy is always a pleasure to work with and very effective."
"Guy Berman continues to impress."
"Guy Berman is an amazing buyouts lawyer."
"Guy is always a pleasure to work with and very effective."
"Guy Berman continues to impress."
Articles, highlights and press releases
6 items provided by Torys LLP
Our third annual survey of Canadian private equity & pension fund leaders takes a pulse on the industry & what’s next for private equity in Canada. PE Pulse 2022 discusses the outlook for dealmaking, valuation trends & sectors of interest, plus how economic & geopolitical headwinds affect the sector
A blockbuster year for private equity
In 2021, the volume of Canadian domestic M&A activity by financial investors reached a five-year high, as financial players put capital to work in a frothy deal environment. Here we examine such trends and make a few market predictions for the year ahead.
Co-investments: continuation funds and other considerations
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, dealmaking activity has remained robust. In this article, we discuss issues we are encountering with some frequency now in the co-investment market in Canada and America, including the impact of continuation funds and the possibility of an exit to a SPAC.
Torys Quarterly: Redefining M&A strategy for the post-pandemic world
Business leaders across the globe have focused foremost on continuity concerns amid the COVID-19 crisis.
The pandemic’s impact on private equity, and how businesses can best leverage the wage subsidy
How will the private equity industry change post-pandemic? Guy Berman and Stefan Stauder give their insights into effects of the COVID‑19 crisis on the private equity industry on both sides of the Canada‑U.S. border.
Torys in 10: Private equity in 2020: what are industry leaders saying?
Mike Akkawi and Guy Berman talk about the large deal sizes the PE market saw in 2019 and the reported expectations that these deal sizes will stay the same or increase moving forward.
Our third annual survey of Canadian private equity & pension fund leaders takes a pulse on the industry & what’s next for private equity in Canada. PE Pulse 2022 discusses the outlook for dealmaking, valuation trends & sectors of interest, plus how economic & geopolitical headwinds affect the sector
A blockbuster year for private equity
In 2021, the volume of Canadian domestic M&A activity by financial investors reached a five-year high, as financial players put capital to work in a frothy deal environment. Here we examine such trends and make a few market predictions for the year ahead.
Co-investments: continuation funds and other considerations
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, dealmaking activity has remained robust. In this article, we discuss issues we are encountering with some frequency now in the co-investment market in Canada and America, including the impact of continuation funds and the possibility of an exit to a SPAC.
Torys Quarterly: Redefining M&A strategy for the post-pandemic world
Business leaders across the globe have focused foremost on continuity concerns amid the COVID-19 crisis.
The pandemic’s impact on private equity, and how businesses can best leverage the wage subsidy
How will the private equity industry change post-pandemic? Guy Berman and Stefan Stauder give their insights into effects of the COVID‑19 crisis on the private equity industry on both sides of the Canada‑U.S. border.
Torys in 10: Private equity in 2020: what are industry leaders saying?
Mike Akkawi and Guy Berman talk about the large deal sizes the PE market saw in 2019 and the reported expectations that these deal sizes will stay the same or increase moving forward.
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