Dana Vanthof, Toronto

About Dana

Dana's practice covers a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, investments, infrastructure, and commercial transactions.

Dana has experience acting for clients in a variety of sectors, including food and beverage, life sciences, financial services, infrastructure, and private equity. In addition, Dana has worked with government-owned or regulated entities as well as clients whose operations include government-owned assets, advising on regulatory and policy matters as they relate to private sector commercial activities.

Dana has also worked as in-house counsel on a secondment with a large retail service company where she advised on various corporate and commercial matters and provided practical day-to-day advice to various business units. In addition, she previously completed a secondment at a leading North American energy generator, where she was engaged in a variety of regulatory and commercial matters.

Dana joined Blakes as a summer student in 2017 and completed her articles with the Firm in 2018-2019.

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Recent representative matters include acting on behalf of and advising:

A leading beverage company on acquisitions in the craft and ready-to-drink spaces
A private equity firm in connection with the establishment of a dental service organization and its continuing consolidation of specialist dental and orthodontist practices across Canada
Pacific Equity Partners on its C$165-million divestiture of AST Investor Services Inc. (Canada) and AST Trust Company (Canada) to the TMX Group Limited
A multinational bank in connection with multiple corporate reorganizations
Power Financial and Power Corporation on their and Great-West Lifeco's substantial issuer bids totalling C$5-billion
Arjun Infrastructure Partners and Fengate Asset Management on the acquisition of ONroute highway service centres
The successful proponent in achieving financial close on a C$5.7-billion project to design, build, finance and maintain the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a new publicly-owned international bridge crossing between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan