David Woollcombe Email Address

Partner

McCarthy Tétrault LLP is a law firm with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal and Québec City, as well as London, UK.

I am a Toronto based partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP where I advise Canadian and international businesses on M&A transactions and complex commercial matters. I work with strategic and financial buyers, sellers, boards and special committees on their most important transactions. In addition, I advise issuers, investors and investment dealers on securities offerings, including equity and debt transactions. I help public companies with continuous disclosure and corporate governance matters and assist clients in structuring joint ventures and related shareholders agreements. In addition to my practice, I serve as my firm’s General Counsel, with responsibility for the firm's legal affairs and risk management, including conflicts and compliance matters. Clients that I have represented include: - Score Media and Gaming on its sale to Penn National Gaming - Wells Fargo on the sale of its direct leasing business to TD Bank - Deloitte Canada on the sale of a subset of its small enterprise business to MNP - Centrica on the sale of Direct Energy to NRG - Cineworld Group plc on its proposed acquisition of Cineplex Inc. - Metso Corporation on its acquisition of McCloskey International - CIBC on its credit card loyalty program with Air Canada and participation in the consortium for the purchase of Aimia Canada - Cara Holdings on a $104m secondary offering of Cara Operations (now Recipe Unlimited) - Bambora Group on its acquisition of Beanstream from Digital River - NVIDIA on its acquisition of TransGaming’s graphics and portability business - Cara Holdings on the $200m initial public offering of Cara Operations (now Recipe Unlimited) - Direct Energy on the sale of its Ontario home services business to EnerCare - Bouygues Energies and Services in connection with its acquisition of Plan Group - The underwriters on a $2.26 billion subscription receipts offering by Manulife - Mattel on its acquisition of Mega Brands Specialties: M&A, Capital Markets, Corporate Governance I can be reached at 416-601-7555 or dwoollcombe@mccarthy.ca