Dunleavy, Michael

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.

Selected Clients/Transactions

Selected clients that Mike currently works with include Blackberry Partners Fund, Blinq Networks, Cyrium Technologies, IMRIS Inc., Mentez LLC, Mobile Knowledge, Summerhill Venture Partners (formerly BCE Capital), and ZIM Corporation.

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

  • Radian6 Technologies and its shareholders in its $360M sale to salesforce.com Inc.
  • Protus IP Solutions and its shareholders in its $212M sale to j2 Global communications
  • IMRIS Inc. in its initial public offerings in Canada (2007) and the United States (2010);
  • 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; and
  • A variety of venture capital firms in various investment activities, including Blackberry Partners Fund, Centara Investments, Covington Capital, Growthworks, Summerhill Venture Partners (formerly BCE Capital), Whitecastle Investments and VenGrowth.

Michael Dunleavy

  • Contact Info

    • T. 613.599.9600 ext. 268
    • F. 613.599.0018
    • mdatlwlawdotcom

  • Services

    • Corporate Commercial Law
    • Corporate Finance
    • Corporate Governance
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Private Equity
    • Securities (Public and Private)
    • Technology & Licensing

  • Law School

    • University of Toronto, LL.B., 1992

  • Year of Call

    • 1995

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