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investment funds and asset management
Our Investment Funds and Asset Management Group encompasses a large team of lawyers with a variety of specialized expertise in securities, corporate, derivatives and tax matters. We regularly act on behalf of a number of issuers and underwriters on the establishment of investment products, including public offerings of both conventional mutual funds and alternative investment products such as closed-end investment funds, limited partnerships, labour sponsored investment funds, commodity pools, mortgage investment corporations and scholarship plans. McMillan LLP has one of the leading practices in Canada relating to the establishment and sale of exempt offerings of pooled funds (both domestic and offshore), including master-feeder and tax efficient structures. We also act with respect to the distribution of note products, including linked notes and prospectus-offered Canadian medium term and structured note programs.
We provide advice on the structuring and taxation of a broad range of over-the-counter and exchange traded derivative products, and work with a wide variety of market participants to develop structures that allow Canadian investors access to non-resident investment funds, as well as structures that provide access to Canadian private funds by non-residents.
McMillan LLP provides ongoing advice to a considerable number of Canadian and non-resident managers, dealers and investment advisers with respect to registration and compliance obligations, and we pro-actively address the issues and challenges faced by these market participants. We assist our clients to navigate through regulatory reviews and audits.
We have been retained by fund managers and by independent review committees to provide advice on the formation and operation of such committees, as well as to provide general advice on conflicts of interest and fund governance matters. We also provide advice on corporate matters such as reorganizations, compensation, financings and M&A transactions (both public and private acquisitions).
Our practitioners are frequent contributors to journals and write on topics of interest to the industry. Our lawyers regularly speak at industry conferences, and members of our group have served on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Chapter of the Alternative Investment Management Association, been seconded to securities commissions and have appeared on the Business News Network. McMillan LLP is an affiliate member of the Investment Funds Institute of Canada and the Portfolio Management Association of Canada.
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Michael Burns
416.865.7261
Kimberly J. Poster
416.865.7890
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