Lindsay Balson (she, her, hers) Partner | Toronto

About Lindsay

Lindsay's practice covers a broad range of transactional and commercial matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and pension fund investments. She advises clients on all aspects of complex corporate transactions, including strategic mergers, divestitures, minority investments, and cross-border transactions. Lindsay routinely provides advice to pension funds and other institutional investor clients on their private equity, infrastructure, real estate, hedge fund and other investments.

In addition to her transactional work, Lindsay's experience includes advising clients on all aspects of their corporate and commercial arrangements, including reorganizations and other corporate restructurings, and complex shareholder, partnership, joint venture, and other commercial agreements.

Lindsay has represented domestic and international clients in the life sciences, energy, technology, manufacturing, food, beverage and agribusiness, and retail sectors, among others. She has completed a secondment to the head office of one of the Firm's large retail clients, where she worked on a wide variety of corporate, commercial and compliance matters.

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Lindsay's recent representative experience includes advising:

Various pension plans and other institutional investors on their private equity, debt, real estate, and infrastructure fund investments
Founder and investors on sale of 80% of Knix Wear Inc. to Essity for US$320-million
L Catterton on its minority equity investment in FYidoctors
Frontier Capital on its acquisition of cfactor Works
GAT Airline Ground Support, a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital, on its acquisition of Strategic Aviation Services and Sky Café
Aura Minerals on its sale of the Serrote da Laje Copper Gold project in Brazil to a purchaser group being advised by Appian Capital Advisory LLP
Suncor on the sale of its half interest in the Cedar Point II wind project to Fiera Capital
Mueller Water Products on various strategic cross-border acquisitions and divestitures
Linamar Corporation on its C$1.2-billion acquisition of the MacDon Group of Companies
An international syndicate of investors in a series A financing of a life sciences company
Canada Bread Company, Limited on its acquisition of Italian Home Bakery (food products)
A US private equity firm on its acquisition of a large manufacturer and distributor of home ventilation and heating products
A large multinational manufacturer and distributor of power generation products on a reorganization of its Canadian business