Patrick Eskle Moyer practises in the areas of corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions involving public companies. Over the past eight years he has worked on a wide variety of international and Canadian transactions, including public offerings by corporations and income trusts, rights offerings, unsolicited and negotiated take-over bids, issuer bids, arrangements, mergers, proxy contests, private company acquisitions, private equity financings, and commercial bank and project financings. Pat also advises a number of public companies regarding governance matters, and stock option plans and other share compensation arrangements.

Recent major public transactions in which Pat has had significant involvement include acting as:  counsel to CML Healthcare Inc. in connection with its $1 billion income trust conversion;  Canadian counsel to Celestica Inc. in connection with the acquisition of a number of public electronics manufacturing services companies, including Manufacturers' Services Limited (U.S.), Omni Industries Limited (Singapore) and Primetech Electronics Inc. (Canada); counsel to InnVest REIT in connection with its $300 million initial public offering; Canadian counsel to the initial purchasers in connection with bond offerings by CanWest Media Inc. and Moore North America Finance Inc.; counsel to Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with its overnight marketed offering of common shares and warrants; counsel to the underwriters in connection with a number of bond and medium term note offerings by 407 International Inc.;  counsel to Celestica Inc. in connection with a number of public equity and debt offerings, including its $1.1 billion U.S.-style bought deal, its $1 billion offering of Liquid Yield Option Notesä and its $530 million initial public offering; and counsel to Onex Corporation in connection with an unsolicited take-over bid for the shares of Air Canada. 

For the past two years, Pat has been a practitioner participant in the "Art of the Deal" course at the University of Toronto, and he is the author of "The Regulation of Corporate Law by Securities Regulators:  A Comparison of Ontario and the United States", published in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review in 1997.

Pat received a B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude) in 1992 from McMaster University and an LL.B. in 1996 from the University of Toronto.

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