Corporate Finance / Securities, Corporate Commercial, Mergers and Acquisitions and Cross-Border Transactions.

Virgil Hlus is a partner with Clark Wilson LLP and a member of the firm’s Corporate Finance / Securities and Corporate Commercial Practice Groups.

He has a varied practice, focussing on cross-border and international corporate finance, securities and transactional matters.

Virgil has a depth of experience serving companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and OTCBB. He has advised a variety of public and private companies on legal matters related to acquisitions, mergers, takeovers, initial public offerings, secondary financings, cross-border financings, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public company disclosure requirements and stock exchange listings.

Recently, Virgil’s general corporate and securities practice has been focused on Canadian, U.S., Asian and cross-border public offerings, private and institutional financings (including U.S. private investment in public equity, or PIPE transactions), stock exchange listings, reverse takeovers and mergers and acquisitions. He advises numerous private and public companies on corporate governance, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, regulatory filings, including registration statements and periodic reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and corporate transactions.

Virgil obtained his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta in 1990 and his Bachelor of laws degree from the University of British Columbia in 1994. He was called to the British Columbia Bar in May 1995 and to the California State Bar in November 1999.

Member of Law Society of British Columbia (1995)

Member, California State Bar (1999)

Member, Gerson Lehrman Group Scholars Program (2006)