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 | Jon Northup | Partner |
| jnorthup@goodmans.ca |
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Bay Adelaide Centre - West Tower
333 Bay Street, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 2S7
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Tel: 416.597.4228
Fax: 416.979.1234
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Jon Northup is a partner in the Tax Group and a member of the Executive Committee at Goodmans. Jon’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and investment funds, with a particular expertise in structuring cross-border transactions. He provides clients with dynamic, strategic and practical tax advice, frequently developing innovative structures and planning to address complex transactions and structuring challenges.
Jon is Vice-Chair of the firm’s Aging & Healthcare (including Seniors Housing) practice group and Chair of SenbridGe, a division of Goodmans that provides specialized advisory, education and networking programs to the healthcare and aging sector.
REPRESENTATIVE WORK
Jon’s representative work includes acting for:
- Tricon Capital Group Inc. in its acquisition of Starlight U.S. Multi-Family No. 5 Core Fund in an all share transaction valued at $1.4 billion
- Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. in its acquisition by Onex Corporation
- Invesque Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Commonwealth Senior Living and 20 of its Communities for US$340.4 Million
- Pure Industrial REIT in its $3.8 billion acquisition by Blackstone Property Partners and Ivanhoé Cambridge
- Student Transportation Inc., one of North America’s largest school bus transportation services, in its $1.1 billion acquisition by the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Ullico Inc.
- Minto Apartment REIT in its $230 million initial public offering
- Revera Inc. in its joint venture with Axium Infrastructure with respect to the acquisition and shared ownership of 32 long-term care homes across Canada
- Invesque Inc. in its US$425 million acquisition of Care Investment Trust’s 42 US seniors housing and care property portfolio owned by Tiptree Inc.
- Milestone Apartment REIT in its US$2.9 billion acquisition by Starwood Capital Group
- InterOil Inc. in its $2.5 billion acquisition by Exxon Mobil Corporation
Jon has extensive experience advising issuers and investment dealers on the structuring and taxation of public offerings, including offerings by REITs, investment trusts and similar yield-oriented issuers. He advised RioCan REIT on the first offering of preferred units by a Canadian trust and advised BSR REIT, NexPoint Hospitality Trust, Invesque Inc., WPT Industrial REIT, Milestone Apartments REIT, Agellan Commercial REIT and HealthLease Properties REIT on their cross-border IPOs.
RECOGNITION
Jon is recognized as a leading practitioner of tax law by Chambers Global who describe him as “indispensable” and comment that he is lauded by clients as an “exceptional deal and tax structuring attorney”. He attracts strong reviews from commentators, who say: “He is wonderful - very thoughtful, thorough, responsive, and he really understands our business.” Jon is also recognized as a leading corporate tax lawyer by The Legal 500, Best Lawyers in Canada and by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. Lexpert Magazine named Jon one of Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers” in 2006 and one of the “20 Corporate Lawyers to Watch” in 2007.
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Jon speaks frequently in both Canada and the United States on topics related to going public in Canada and the tax efficient structuring of income securities.
| Education |
University of Toronto (LL.B., 1998)
University of Victoria (B.A., 1993)
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| Professional Affiliations |
Professional Affiliations
Law Society of Ontario
Canadian Bar Association
Canadian Tax Foundation
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| Year of Call |
2000 Ontario |
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