Jay Piett is an associate in a business law group at Goodmans. He acts for both public and private companies, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate finance transactions and shareholder activism.
Jay completed the J.D./H.B.A program at the Richard Ivey School of Business and Western Law School, where he was on the Dean’s List and won the David L. Johnston award in Securities Regulation.
General Atlantic, a global growth investor, in connection with its strategic growth investment in Plusgrade Inc.
TRADER Corporation, a Canadian automotive marketplace and solutions provider, in its acquisition of the Canadian operations of Cox Automotive, Inc.
Minute Media, a global technology and sports content company, in its acquisition of STN Video
Bazaarvoice, Inc., a platform for user-generated content and social commerce, in its acquisition of Granify Inc.
the agents of OMERS Realty Corporation for various private placements of debentures
the underwriters and agents of Brookfield Finance Inc., Brookfield Renewable Corporation and Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. on various follow-on public offerings
Inovia Capital is already one of the largest venture capital funds in Canada and it has just raised its second fund to invest in emerging Canadian technology companies.Inovia is co-managed by a…
Eleven years after its inception, Toronto incubator DMZ has reached an incredible milestone. The Ryerson-based non-profit incubator has a portfolio of current and alumni companies that have raised…
Retail investors shocked Wall Street last month when they forced artificial spikes in the prices of several stocks prominently shorted by hedge funds in attempted “short squeeze” plays. GameStop (GME…
Nintendo recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Next Level Games (“NLG”), a Vancouver-based game developer, in a rare acquisition for the…
Canadian mental health start-up MindBeacon is going public. On December 7th, 2020, MindBeacon filed a preliminary prospectus for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) . MindBeacon has applied to be…
On June 19, 2019, Mayor John Tory announced a partnership between the City of Toronto, MaRs Discovery District (MaRs), George Brown College (George Brown) and Refined Manufacturing Acceleration…
