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Michael P. Whitcombe
Senior Partner, Corporate Business
Toronto
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Tel :
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416.865.7126
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Fax :
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416.865.7048
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Professional Experience
Michael Whitcombe is a Senior Partner and Vice-Chair of the National Business Law Practice and also a Member of the Board of Partners of McMillan. He principally practises in the areas of negotiated merger and acquisition transactions (domestic and cross-border), private equity investments, strategic alliances, complex commercial arrangements and corporate governance. Michael regularly advises medium and large corporations (both domestic and international) and their boards of directors in connection with their operations throughout Canada. He has significant industry experience in pharmaceutical, automotive, manufacturing, distribution, service, entertainment, hospitality and tourism sectors.
Michael is Director of a number of Canadian corporations and has served as the Honorary Solicitor for The Arthritis Society since 1996. He is a member of the OBCA and CBCA Advisory Sub-Committees to the Business Law Executive of the Canadian Bar Association (Ontario). Michael holds a degree in Business Administration in addition to his LLB and LLM and was called to Ontario Bar in 1987.
Since 2006, Michael has been recognized as one of Canada's leading Business Lawyers in the Lexpert / ALM Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.
Representative Transactions
- Represented Sun Capital Partners in connection with the Canadian aspects of its acquisition of the America's Bath & Kitchen Division of American Standard.
- Represented Thomson SA in connection with the Canadian aspects of the sale of its RCA brand accessories business to Audiovox.
- Represented ARAMARK Corp. in connection with Canadian aspects of the cross-border US$8.3billion private equity privatization by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.
- Represented JP Morgan, Citibank and Goldman Sachs in connection with Canadian aspects of the cross-border US$23.4billion secured financing of the Ford Motor Company.
- Represented Blue Point Capital Partners on its cross-border sale of ETI Explosives.
- Represented L3 Communications Titan Corp. on the sale of its Canadian subsidiary Cayenta Canada Inc.
- Represented US strategic bidder on its multi-billion dollar bid for Fairmont Hotels & Resorts.
- Represented a large US Private Equity Fund on its multi-billion dollar bid for Hudson's Bay Company.
- Represented the Sandoz division of Novartis in its cross-border acquisition of generic drug manufacturer Sabex Inc. from Roundtable Health Partners.
- Represented Mars Inc.'s acquisition by its subsidiary Royal Canin of the specialty pet food business of Del Monte Corporation.
- Represented Technicolor Inc. in its cross border acquisition by public take-over bid of Command Post and Transfer Corporation.
publications and presentations
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October 2011
The Characteristics and Uses of Limited Partnerships
Co-presenter, Osgoode Professional Development: The Short Course on Partnerships, Limited Partnerships and Joint Ventures, Toronto, Ontario
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October 2010
The Characteristics and Uses of Limited Partnerships
Co-presenter, Osgoode Professional Development: The Short Course on Partnerships, Limited Partnerships and Joint Ventures, Toronto, Ontario
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October 2009
The Characteristics and Uses of Limited Partnerships
Co-presenter, Osgoode Professional Development: The Short Course on Partnerships, Limited Partnerships and Joint Ventures, Toronto, Ontario
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- automotive
- corporate
- health
- intellectual property and technology law
- international business transactions
- outsourcing
- Ontario Bar Association
- Canadian Bar Association
- Advisory Sub-Committees to the Business Law Executive of the Canadian Bar Association (Ontario)
Called to the Ontario bar
- 1987
Osgoode Hall Law School, LLM (e-business law)
- 1985
Queen's University, LLB
- 1985
University of New Brunswick, BBA (with Distinction)
- 1982
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