She will work alongside Jonathan See and Shea Small
McCarthy Tétrault has named Toronto-based business law group partner Heidi Gordon as co-head of its national mergers and acquisitions group along with Jonathan See and Shea Small.
Gordon replaces Cameron Belsher, who was national M&A group co-head for almost 10 years. See highlighted Gordon’s dealmaking experience and commercial judgment as key assets she brings to the role.
Gordon has tackled cross-border transactions and assisted international investors with investing in and acquiring Canadian businesses. She has worked with Canadian and international businesses, boards of directors, family offices, and private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
She has tackled capital raising, disclosure, governance, and corporate restructuring matters, working across the private equity and real estate industries. The Lexpert-ranked lawyer previously led the acquisition of privately held software companies while completing a secondment at Constellation Software.
Gordon also seconded at the Ontario Securities Commission’s Office of Mergers & Acquisitions, where she helped supervise public M&A transactions and other matters involving public companies in addition to handling M&A and shareholder rights-related policy projects. She was involved in the recent reform of Canada’s take-over bid regime.
She worked on Crestpoint’s partnership with Minto Group to purchase Minto Apartment REIT for $2.3 billion; she was also part of the team that served as Canadian counsel to ProAmpac Holdings Inc. on its $2.1 billion acquisition of TC Transcontinental Packaging. She helped Silver Lake to secure a 51 percent interest in Altera Corporation and advised on Car IQ’s sale to Element Fleet Management Corp.
Gordon has lectured at the Western University Faculty of Law, the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, and university accredited corporate director development program The Directors College. She was once part of VersaFi’s Toronto steering committee.
Her predecessor Belsher will continue his M&A practice at McCarthy Tétrault and collaborate with the M&A leadership team.
