Bennett Jones is pleased to announce that Steven Bennett has joined the firm as a partner in Toronto. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, private equity and venture capital transactions and general corporate and commercial law.

Steven has significant experience representing domestic and international clients in inter-jurisdictional transactions in the mining and resources sector.

He has represented issuers, boards of directors, special committees, management teams, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, financial advisors and other transaction participants in a wide range of M&A transactions (both public and private), joint ventures, streaming transactions, royalties, and project acquisitions. He also regularly advises issuers and investment dealers in connection with equity and debt offerings, and counsels clients on corporate governance and securities law and stock exchange compliance matters.

Steven is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association. Additionally, Steven has completed a certificate program in Financial Analysis & Investment Management (University of Toronto) and has also obtained the designation CIM (Canadian Investment Manager) from the Canadian Securities Institute (2010).