Neil Kravitz is a partner specializing in corporate, commercial, mergers and acquisitions and securities law and has extensive experience in public offerings, take-over bids, plans of arrangement, private placements, corporate governance matters and both private and public asset and share purchase transactions.

Neil was actively involved with The CIT Group, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Newcourt Credit Group Inc. by way of plan of arrangement, the sale of St. Laurent Paperboard Inc., a Canadian public industrial paper products company, to one of its global competitors, Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation and the acquisition of Shirmax Fashions Ltd. by Reitmans (Canada) Limited by way of take-over bid. He acted for CryoCath Technologies Inc., a Montréal-based company, in connection with one of the largest biotechnology IPOs in Canadian history as well as for Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust and Alexis Nihon Real Estate Investment Trust in connection with their initial public offerings and subsequent offerings. Neil also represented Bell Canada in connection with an offering of up to $3 billion of debt securities and a significant shareholder of Cognos Incorporated in connection with a cross-border secondary offering of shares.

Some of the recent transactions in which Neil has acted include: acting for Deutsche Bank in connection with the $850 million rights offering of Air Canada as part of its CCAA restructuring; acting for Boomerang Tracking Inc. in its acquisition by Lojack Corporation by way of plan of arrangement; acting for Eric Molson and his holding company in connection with the US$6 billion merger of Molson and Coors; acting for Neurochem Inc. in connection with its cross-border public offerings including a placement of $40 million of contingently convertible notes, a $80 million placement of convertible notes and listing on Nasdaq and follow-on offering; acting for SS&C Technologies, Inc. in connection with its $195 million take-over bid of Financial Models Company Inc. in the context of a contested bidding process; acting for Kimco North Trust III, an entity controlled by Kimco Realty Corporation, in connection with the private placement issuance of $150 million principal amount of notes, reported to be the first time a US-based REIT raised capital in Canada as well as a subsequent private placement of $200 million principal amount of notes; acting for Eximias Pharmaceutical Corporation in connection with its merger with YM BioSciences Inc.; acting for Rogers Sugar Income Fund in connection with its public offering of convertible debentures; acting for a syndicate of dealers in connection with the public offering by Metro Inc. of $600 million principal amount of notes; acting for SITQ in connection with the financing of the take-over of Atlas Cold Storage Income Trust and Versacold Income Fund; acting for the special committee of St. Lawrence Cement Group Inc. in connection with its $681 million acquisition by the Holcim Group and acting for TPG Capital in connection with its $1.3 billion acquisition of Axcan Pharma Inc. by way of plan of arrangement.

In addition to advising clients with respect to corporate governance matters on a regular basis, Neil participated in a firm's webcast with respect to corporate governance issues and contributes regularly to the firm's publications in this area. Neil was also a contributor to the International Securities Law Handbook authored by members of the World Law Group, published by Klawer Law International and the co-author of "The Ontario Civil Liability Regime – Not Quite 10b-5 North" published in Corporate Liability Studies©2006, by Federated Press.

He was recognized among Lexpert Magazine’s Rising Stars, Canada’s Top 40 Lawyers Under 40. Neil was named as one of 20 corporate lawyers to watch by LEXPERT’s Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada.

Neil has been a sessional lecturer in Securities Regulation in the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He is also the Montréal office corporate finance and securities practice group coordinator and is a member of the firm's student committee and opinion committee.

Neil holds a B.C.L. and an LL.B. from McGill University and was awarded the Gold Medal for graduating with the highest standing in McGill's B.C.L. program in 1996. He became a partner in 2002.

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