Karl Tabbakh
Canada Guide 2025
Band 5 : Corporate/Commercial
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514-397-2326Share profile
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About
Provided by Karl Tabbakh
Practice Areas
Karl Tabbakh is the Regional Managing Partner for Québec and Co-Leader of the Firm's International & Business Strategy. Karl is also a member of McCarthy Tétrault's Senior Leadership Team determining and implementing the firm’s overall strategy. In addition, Karl maintains a formidable practice focusing on complex financings and transactions, including both domestic and international private equity and M&A deals for some of the firm’s most significant clients. Karl led and participated in the negotiation and structuring of some of the most high profile and strategically critical transactions in Canada, the Middle East and globally. With over 20 years of experience structuring, negotiating, executing and closing critical business transactions in Québec and around the world, Karl uses his deep knowledge of transactions and global experience to ensure clients are well-served and equipped with an understanding of both legal and business implications during major decisions.
Career
Bar admission Québec, 1998; Supreme Court of England and Wales, 2002.
Professional Memberships
Chairman of Invest in Canada, Canada’s government corporation for attraction and facilitation of foreign direct investments; Former Chairman of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and board member of the National Circus School
Chambers Review
Canada
Karl Tabbakh combines his role as regional managing partner for Québec with an active client-facing practice where he handles mergers and acquisitions as well as capital markets matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Karl Tabbakh is excellent."
"Karl Tabbakh is excellent."