Manoj Pundit

Partner

Toronto
[email protected]
416.367.6577

Manoj acts as counsel on securities and corporate matters, including:

  • Public and private securities offerings
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Private equity, growth and venture capital
  • Corporate governance and regulatory matters
  • Emerging growth company matters

Manoj advises issuers, underwriters and investors in connection with public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. He also advises special committees of boards of directors with regards to related party transactions and insider bids.

Manoj provides legal services through a Law Corporation.

Experience

  • Advising UMB Bank in its capacity as notes indenture trustee in connection with the plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act, involving the restructuring of US$665 million of senior notes issued by Stoneway Capital Corporation and the sale of its four power generation plants located in Argentina
  • McKinsey & Company as a shareholder in the US$230 million sale of Element AI Inc. to Silicon Valley software company ServiceNow Inc.
  • Lead counsel to PayBright Inc., a leading Canadian fintech company, in connection with its $340 million acquisition by Silicon Valley-based Affirm Holdings, Inc., and several rounds of growth capital financings and corporate, regulatory and commercial matters.

Beyond Our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Chair and member, Securities Advisory Committee - Ontario Securities Commission
  • Participant by invitation at Ontario Securities Commission Roundtable on Reduction of Regulatory Burden – May 2019.

Awards & Recognitions

  • Recognized in the 2023 edition (and since 2018) of Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Corporate Commercial Law; Corporate Mid-Market; Mergers & Acquisitions)
  • Recognized in the 2022 edition of Lexpert Special Edition: Technology & Health Sciences
  • Recognized in the 2022 and 2021 editions of Lexpert Special Edition: Finance and M&A
  • Recognized in the 2021 edition of Lexpert Special Edition: Technology
  • Recognized in the 2018 edition of the Lexpert Global Mining Special Edition – Canada's Leading Lawyers in Global Mining

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 1990
  • LLM, Osgoode Hall Law School, 1994
  • LLB, University of Alberta, 1988
  • B.Sc., University of Alberta, 1985