Mike is a partner of LaBarge Weinstein and joined the firm in July 2000 after seven years of practice at two national law firms in Toronto. His clients include companies at all stages of development, from startups to established public companies. Mike has extensive experience in representing purchasers and vendors in mergers and acquisitions, issuers and underwriters in public offerings, and companies and their investors in private equity financings. He also has an extensive background in technology contracting, including drafting and negotiating agreements for the licensing, development and distribution of technology and the outsourcing of technology services.

A few of Mike?s notable retainers in the past have included:

• IMRIS Inc. in its initial public offering;
• Accelio Corporation (formerly JetForm), in its successful defense of a hostile takeover bid by OpenText Corporation and subsequent $110 million sale to Adobe Systems Inc.;
• Major shareholders of Broadband Networks, in its $600 million sale to Nortel Networks;
• MetroPhotonics Inc., in its $50 million brokered private financing;
• GeoTrain Corporation, in its private sale to Global Knowledge for an undisclosed amount;
• Shareholders of Loran Technologies, in its $130 million sale to Peregrine Systems;
• A major shareholder of ImagicTV, in its $45 million sale to Alcatel;
• A syndicate of investors, in a $30 million financing of Stream Intelligent Networks; and
• A variety of venture capital firms in various investment activities, including Summerhill Venture Partners (formerly BCE Capital), Whitecastle Investments, Centara Investments, VenGrowth, NB Capital Corp. (now Edgestone), Skypoint Capital, Covington and Growthworks.