Grant K. Weaver Partner, Business Law

Grant practices transactions and advisory services in a broad range of industries and structures including securities matters, business and transactional work with an emphasis on merger & acquisition transactions, corporate finance, initial public offerings, licencing and corporate governance and board advisory work. His experience encompasses a number of international projects and transactions, particularly involving cross-border transactions with the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe.

He was recently retained as special advisor to the board in connection with a $374 million takeover of a public company. He has acted on behalf of an American purchaser in connection with its $30 million investment in a Canadian shipping industry company, as well as for a Canadian public company in connection with its acquisition of a sugar refinery for a total purchase price of $250 million.

Grant also acts for a number of coal companies and other commodity producers in connection with transportation matters and has a long standing knowledge of the gaming industry in British Columbia.

He has been a guest lecturer on taxation matters for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Faculties of Law at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria speaking on corporate taxation and merger & acquisition transactions. Grant has also been a lecturer for the Professional Legal Training Program of the Law Society of British Columbia.