Tairroyn Childs, Toronto

About Tairroyn

Tairroyn acts for clients in a wide variety of capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters, with a particular focus on investment products and asset management. She has significant experience with the structuring and offering of investment products and provides regulatory advice to buyers and sellers on acquisitions and divestitures involving investment management businesses. Tairroyn also advises clients with respect to registration, regulatory compliance matters, sales and marketing issues, governance and other securities regulatory matters.

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Investment Products & Asset Management

Asset managers and fund sponsors of various ETFs, closed-end and open-end investment funds and split share corporations in connection with the initial and continuous offerings of such funds
Several closed-end fund issuers in connection with "at-the-market" equity distribution programs
Canoe Financial LP on its acquisition of the investment fund management contracts for nine Fiera Capital mutual funds from Fiera Capital Corporation

Other Transactions

Royal Bank of Canada on its C$13.5-billion acquisition of HSBC Bank Canada and related regulatory approvals
Magnet Forensics Inc. on its C$1.8-billion acquisition by an affiliate of private equity firm Thoma Bravo
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust in connection with multiple public and private offerings of senior unsecured debentures
Underwriters on a C$230-million initial public offering of trust units by Minto Apartment REIT on the Toronto Stock Exchange (and subsequent prospectus offerings)
A Canadian financial institution in connection with its C$5-billion medium term notes (principal at risk structured notes) program