Antony Cortese
PartnerAntony Cortese practises corporate and commercial law, with a focus on private company mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, joint ventures, and corporate finance.
Antony works with clients operating in a wide range of industries, including forestry, energy, mining, construction, technology, food services, and insurance.
As a trusted legal advisor, Antony provides clients with timely, practical and tailored solutions for their legal needs. Specifically, Antony regularly assists clients with commercial contract drafting and negotiation, corporate governance matters, negotiating deal terms for transactions, and counselling buy/sell transactions from the term sheet stage through to close. Antony also has extensive experience structuring and re-structuring business ventures, including through the use of joint ventures, corporations, and partnerships.
Prior to practising law, Antony worked for a technology start-up in the affiliate marketing space. With a background in business and experience working on the other side of the lawyer-client relationship, Antony strives to provide clients with pragmatic advice and understands the importance of a having a trusted legal advisor.
EXPERIENCE
- Acted for Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd., Marubeni Corporation and Daishowa North America Corporation in the US$465 million sale to Mercer International Inc. of their business of manufacturing, marketing and selling pulp, which included among other things the sale of a pulp mill
- Acted for Canadian Forest Products Ltd. in its $420 million acquisition of Millar Western Forest Products Ltd.’s solid wood operations, being two sawmills and a specialty value add manufacturing facility
- Acted for Cobra Electric Ltd. and Cobra Electric (South Coast) Ltd., affiliated companies specializing in traffic management and lighting system infrastructure for municipalities and the B.C. provincial government, in the concurrent sale of their businesses to the Mainroad Group
- Acted for TRG Group Benefits and Pensions Inc., a leading employee benefits advisory firm, in its acquisition by US-based Hub International Limited.
- Acted for Autopro Automation Consultants Ltd. in its acquisition in a three-cornered transaction with Canadian public company mCloud Technologies Corp. and Fulcrum Automation Technologies
- Acted as Canadian counsel to a Swedish-based multinational corporate group in its acquisition of a B.C based company with international operations, for an upfront cash consideration of US$90 million and a potential earnout of US$30 million
- Acted for the seller of a business division carrying out the marketing, distributing and servicing of group benefit and group retirement plans
- Acted for a Canadian subsidiary of a multinational corporate group in its acquisition of an Australian-owned business consisting of proprietary technology which tracks fatigue in industrial workers
• Acted for a B.C. company in the sale of its wastewater and water utility - Acted for the seller of an agricultural commercial equipment business
- Acted for Canadian Forest Products Ltd. in the formation of its joint venture, “Arbios Biotech”, with the Licella Group of Australian companies for the development of biofuel plants in Prince George, B.C. and elsewhere.
- Acts as corporate counsel to a number of BC based forestry companies, including forest tenure management and log marketing firms and sawmill operators
- Acts as Canadian corporate counsel for a number of US based enterprises commencing business in Canada
- Acts as corporate counsel to a variety of professional partnerships in renewing their respective partnership and shareholder agreements
- Acts regularly for institutional lenders and syndicates with respect to senior secured credit facilities to companies in a variety of sectors
- English
J.D., Queen’s University, 2016
- BCom, University of Victoria, 2012
Awards
- Emerging Leader, The Peak, 2023
