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Cam McTavish*

Partner

Just like business, law is dynamic. While there are many ways to structure and consummate a transaction, it takes the right mix of knowledge, experience, passion, creativity and strategy to achieve success.

Providing exceptional client service on a wide variety of matters, Cam effectively utilizes his knowledge and experience to navigate complex transactions while maximizing value and reducing risk in the advancement of our clients’ businesses.

Over the years, Cam has built a large network of clients and contacts in the capital markets arena that support business growth. He leverages such contacts to present opportunities for successful transactions and capital raising.  Cam is an experienced advisor and deal lawyer with significant experience in business strategy, private and public M&A, restructurings, special situations and all forms of private and public financings.

Cam prides himself on being a resource for our clients, tailoring his advice and finding opportunities for success that establish and grow business in an ever-changing market, to which our clients are vital contributors.

Work Highlights

BBTV Going Private Transaction and Concurrent Refinancing

  • Acting as issuer counsel on BBTV’s going private transaction by way of plan of arrangement and concurrent PE $40M refinance transaction.

WELL Health (TSX) Acquisition of Controlling Stake in HEALWELL AI (TSX)

  • Acting as counsel to WELL Health in a series of creative restructuring transactions to acquire a controlling interest in HEALWELL AI (TSX).

Hire Technologies Inc. restructuring and debt reduction strategy

  • Acting as counsel to HIRE (TSXV) in connection with its debt reduction and restructuring strategy through successive divestures of its operating divisions.
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Services
Public and private M&A transactions Domestic and cross-border financings
Initial and secondary public offerings Creative corporate restructurings
Exchange listings Going-private transactions
Corporate governance Proxy contests, shareholder requisitions and director disputes

 

Awards & Distinctions
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory®, Repeatedly Recommended Lawyer, Corporate Finance & Securities, 2023
  • Best Lawyers in Canada, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2023-2024, Securities Law, 2024
*Cam McTavish Law Corporation
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BBTV Going Private Transaction and Concurrent Refinancing
  • Acting as issuer counsel on BBTV’s going private transaction by way of plan of arrangement and concurrent PE $40M refinance transaction.
WELL Health (TSX) Acquisition of Controlling Stake in HEALWELL AI (TSX)
  • Acting as counsel to WELL Health in a series of creative restructuring transactions to acquire a controlling interest in HEALWELL AI (TSX).
Hire Technologies Inc. restructuring and debt reduction strategy
  • Acting as counsel to HIRE (TSXV) in connection with its debt reduction and restructuring strategy through successive divestures of its operating divisions.
HEALWELL AI (TSX) Control Acquisition of Pentavere Research Group Inc.
  • Acting as counsel to HEALWELL in its acquisition of Pentavere, a private AI health-tech company.
Public Company Plan of Arrangement
  • Anacortes Mining Corp. (TSXV), in its acquisition by Steppe Gold Limited (TSX) by way of plan of arrangement.
WELL Health Technologies Corp. $266.3M Acquisition
  • Acting as purchaser counsel on WELL Health’s $266.3 million acquisition of MyHealth Partners, an Ontario-based specialty care, telehealth and diagnostic health services provider.
BBTV Holdings Inc. $66.3M Refinancing Transaction
  • Acting as issuer’s counsel on concurrent bought deal prospectus and private placement convertible debenture offering and refinancing transactions in the aggregate amount of $66.3M
BBTV Holdings Inc. $172M IPO
  • Acting as issuer counsel on BBTV’s $172M initial public offering of subordinate voting shares on the TSX and concurrent buy-out of majority shareholder’s interest in BroadbandTV Corp. and corporate restructuring.
WELL Health Technologies Corp.
  • Assisting an omni-channel digital health company listed on the TSX with prospectus and private placement financings totaling $488M to date and assisting on its acquisition strategy of 20+ acquisitions and five strategic investments to date.
Cross Border RTO and COB Transaction
  • Acting as counsel for Ignite International Brands, Ltd. in connection with its closing of a $328.4M reverse take-over and change of business transaction (by market value) by a United States target company on the Canadian Securities Exchange and concurrent $25.8M non-brokered subscription receipt financing
Cross Border RTO Transaction
  • Acting as counsel for Lead Ventures Inc. in connection with its closing of a $5.8B reverse takeover transaction (by market value) by a United States target on the Canadian Securities Exchange and concurrent $520M brokered subscription receipt financing
Wolfden Resources Corporation
  • Mining IPO & listing: Issuer’s counsel on $10 million Canadian initial public offering and listing on the TSX Venture Exchange as a Tier 1 Mining Issuer and concurrent acquisition of an advanced stage mining property
Shareholder Activist
  • Shareholder requisition and sale of the company: Counsel in a successful shareholder requisition proceeding of a listed company, following which control of the board was established, assets were liquidated for cash, and the company was acquired by a TSX-listed issuer in a plan of arrangement transaction
Sun Records Entertainment Holding Corporation
  • Going private transaction: Issuer’s counsel on a going private transaction by way of a share redemption and voluntary exchange delisting
Advanced Stage Mining Company
  • Expedited regulatory approval: Special counsel to the issuer to secure expedited regulatory approval and exchange waivers of a strategic acquisition to pair a newly built mill and nearby advanced stage property for low cost gold production
Creative takeover
  • Strategic Private Takeover: Secured takeover of private Canadian resource company, structured as a buy-out of an existing shareholder in time to accept a pre-emptive right and obtain shareholder and then board control of the company
Public company re-domicile transaction
  • Re-domicile plan of arrangement: Counsel to re-domicile a US and Canadian listed public company from Nevada to British Columbia pursuant to a plan of arrangement to address US and Canadian tax and securities laws
US public company
  • Tax-deferred cross-border acquisition: Counsel for US public company acquiring Canadian consumable products company, structured as an exchangeable preferred share transaction to defer taxes of founders of the Canadian target company
Awards & Distinctions
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory®, Repeatedly Recommended Lawyer, Corporate Finance & Securities, 2023
  • Best Lawyers in Canada, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2023-2024, Securities Law, 2024
Industry Involvement
  • Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
Education & Call to Bar
  • Call to Bar: British Columbia: 2004
  • Bachelor of Laws, University of British Columbia, 2003
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Victoria, 1998