Hari Marcovici

Partner

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Hari Marcovici is a partner in the business law group at Goodmans. His practice focuses on M&A and securities law. He advises Canadian and foreign public and private companies on both domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt issuances, restructurings and ongoing corporate governance matters.

Before joining Goodmans, Hari worked as an associate in the Capital Markets Group of a national law firm and obtained both regulatory and in-house experience in the several years he spent with the Ontario Securities Commission’s Enforcement Branch and Investment Funds & Structured Products Branch. He also worked at two large bank-owned asset managers.

Hari is fluent in Hebrew and Romanian and is a CFA Charterholder.

REPRESENTATIVE WORK

Hari’s representative work includes acting for:

M&A

• Brookfield Infrastructure in connection with its sale of Enwave Energy Corporation to IFM Investors and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board for over $4.1 billion
• The Special Committee of Dream Global REIT in connection with its acquisition by Blackstone for $6.2 billion
• Pon Holdings B.V. in connection with its acquisition of Dorel Sports, creating a leading global bike company, for over $1 billion
• Berkshire Partners in connection with its acquisition of VetStrategy and subsequent disposition of VetStrategy to IVC Evidensia (a portfolio company of EQT Partners), creating the second largest owner and operator of veterinary clinics in the world
• Subversive Acquisition LP in connection with its qualifying acquisition with InterCure Ltd., the first successful qualifying acquisition between a Canadian SPAC and a public Israeli company
• Brookfield Principal Credit in connection Clover Leaf’s CCAA proceedings and the related Chapter 11 proceedings of Bumble Bee Seafoods
• The Special Committee of Aimia Inc. in connection with its corporate transformation and acquisition of Mittleman Brothers LLC
• Clairvest Group in connection with its acquisition of SunSystem Technology and Power Overhaul
• L’Oreal in connection with its investment in Functionalab
• Trader Corporation in connection with its acquisition of Réseau LesPAC
• PerfectMind in connection with its acquisition by Advent International

Corporate Finance

• Dye & Durham Limited in its $150 million initial public offering and listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange
• Nova Net Lease REIT with respect to its initial public offering, the first public Canadian REIT to focus exclusively on US cannabis properties
• Underwriters in connection with multiple debt issuances by a number of Brookfield entities
• Enwave Energy Corporation in connection with its note issuances
• Welltower Inc. in connection with its Canadian note offerings

RECOGNITION

Hari is recognized in the inaugural 2022 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada.