Overview
Noa Rapaport is an associate in a business law group at Goodmans. She is developing a broad practice in corporate matters.
Noa first joined Goodmans as a summer student in 2022 and became an associate at the firm in 2024.
Noa completed a secondment at the Office of Mergers and Acquisitions of the Ontario Securities Commission in 2026, where she assisted in the review of various public transactions involving minority shareholder, conflict of interest, and related-party matters.
Expertise
Featured Work
Noa's representative work includes acting for
- Kilmer Sports Ventures, owned by Larry Tanenbaum, in its membership acquisition for the Toronto Tempo. expansion franchise of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and related third party investor financing.
- GTCR LLC in connection with its acquisition of dentalcorp Holdings Ltd. by way of a plan of arrangement in a transaction that values Dentalcorp at approximately C$2.2 billion on an equity value basis.
- Ascent Sports Group, a company backed by GTCR LLC, in connection with its acquisition of LiveBarn, a Montreal-based provider of live and on-demand video and analytics for ice hockey and other sports across North America.
- Welltower Inc., in connection with the unwinding of its joint venture with Chartwell Retirement Residences, involving 40 Canadian retirement residences across 4 provinces.
- National Fire Equipment Limited and National Fire Fabrication Limited in connection with the sale of its business to Wolseley Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.
- Various U.S. private equity firms on Canadian acquisitions.
Credentials
Credentials
- University of Toronto, J.D., 2023
- Western University, B.A., 2020, Political Science
Professional Affiliations
- Law Society of Ontario
- Canadian Bar Association
Call to Bar
- 2024 Ontario
Insights
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