Denis G. Silva

Denis G. Silva advises clients on a range of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions and has extensive ‎experience advising public and private clients in the mining, technology and financial sectors on a full ‎range of business law matters.‎

Notable experience:

• Jiangxi Copper on its US$200 million investment into First Quantum Minerals
• Nova Royalty on its arrangement transaction with Metalla Royalty & Streaming with debt and equity ‎financing for an aggregate transaction value of $260 million ‎
• PODA on its multiparty sale of intellectual property assets to Altria Group for US$100 million
• Adventus Mining on its arrangement transaction with Luminex Resources with concurrent equity financing for an aggregate transaction value of $90 million
• FansUnite Entertainment on its sale of assets to GeoComply for US$37.5 million
• Draganfly on its Nasdaq listing and US$20 million US prospectus offering
• Brixton Metals on US$44.5 million joint venture agreement on Hog Heaven ‎copper-silver-gold project‎ with Ivanhoe Electric
• Adventus Mining on its construction financing for the Curipamba copper project for US$260 million ‎
• Metalla Royalty & Streaming on its US$50 million At-The-Market Equity ‎Program
• Neptune Digital Assets on its $40 million institutional investment
• Needham, Canaccord Genuity and Raymond James on a US$69 million public offering of common ‎‎shares of ‎Absolute Software and concurrent initial listing on the Nasdaq ‎‎

Denis regularly assists companies and dealers on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, ‎reorganizations, options and joint ventures, proxy contests, and exchange listings. He is also experienced ‎in a broad spectrum of securities products, including equity and debt securities, and has worked on ‎numerous financing transactions.‎ 

In addition to traditional legal advice and services, Denis provides value for his clients by leveraging his ‎network to facilitate introductions, originate deals and generate revenue for his clients and referral sources. Denis is recognized by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a Repeatedly Recommended lawyer in the categories of Mining and Corporate and by Chambers in the category of Corporate Commercial.