10 October 20232 minute read

DLA Piper Canada welcomes partner Raj Dewan

DLA Piper Canada is pleased to announce that Rajeev “Raj” Dewan ‎has joined our Toronto office as a ‎partner in the Capital ‎Markets group. Raj is a leading business lawyer with a ‎thriving capital markets and cross-border practice. He acts ‎on behalf of emerging growth companies and ‎entrepreneurs in key growth sectors, including eSports, ‎fintech, healthcare, mining, and ‎technology, providing them ‎with strategic advice on a variety of matters, including going ‎public transactions, ‎financings, cross-border M&A, ‎international joint ventures, and corporate governance.‎

Raj is actively focused on cross-border transactions and ‎international listings between North America, Asia, the ‎Middle East, and North Africa. He regularly ‎advises ‎merchant banks, family offices, and emerging growth ‎companies based in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa ‎on going ‎public and M&A in North America.‎

Raj is a recent appointee to the Toronto Stock Exchange ‎‎(TSX) Venture Exchange’s Listing Advisory Committee ‎‎(Ontario), which ‎advises senior management at the TSX ‎Venture Exchange on policy developments and trends in ‎the ‎capital markets. Raj also recently served on the Ontario ‎Securities Commission’s Small and ‎Medium Enterprises ‎Committee and is a charter member of The Indus ‎Entrepreneurs (TiE), one of the largest global entrepreneur ‎organizations based in Silicon Valley.‎

“Raj is an excellent addition to our active Capital Markets group and I am delighted to welcome him to the firm,” said Robert Seidel, K.C., Canada Managing Partner. “His impressive track record and breadth of experience in assisting clients across multiple jurisdictions with a range of capital markets matters adds to our deep bench of talented partners and associates in the area.”