Dezarae Senft

Dezarae has been involved in a wide array of sophisticated Canadian and international transactions and provides high-quality service to her clients. She represents acquirors, targets and boards in connection with corporate acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations and restructurings. Her practice also involves acting on behalf of issuers in respect of initial public offerings, new issues and has acted for both issuers and/or dealers in respect of public and private offerings of debt, equity and hybrid securities by corporations, including cross-border financings and dual listings. Dezerae assists clients in respect of corporate governance and continuous disclosure issues, compensation plans and the day-to-day servicing of public companies. 

She prides herself on being at the forefront of recent and pending developments in M&A and Corporate Finance and Securities law so as to deliver maximum value to her clients. In a complex and ever-changing legal environment, Dezarae has handled a wide range of complex international transactions. International areas of significant experience include the British Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom. She understands the unique needs of clients doing business in foreign countries, where risk assessment and strategic planning are fundamental aspects of any transaction.

Her expertise includes:

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Advising on and implementing amalgamations, plans of arrangement, mergers and a variety of other corporate reorganizations and restructuring transactions.
• Preparing and handling takeover and reverse takeover bids, issuer bids and the information circulars issued in connection with those transactions.

International Business Transactions

• Representation of buyers and sellers in international corporate reorganization transactions.
• Assisting clients starting from the initial strategic decision-making and risk assessment, through exploratory meetings, confidentiality agreements and due diligence, to the signing, closing and implementation of an international business transaction.

Offerings

• Engaging in prospectus offerings for international, national and local issuers, initial public offerings, capital pool company offerings, bought deals, debt financings and special warrant financings.
• Undertaking short form prospectus offerings, shelf offerings and rights offerings.

Financings

• Facilitating institutional and private venture capital financings and debt and equity financings.
• Advising on numerous specialized transactions, including capital pool company IPOs and qualifying transactions, joint venture exploration and development, flow-through share financings and other energy and mining transactions.
• Conducting institutional exempt offerings, "seed capital" financings, private placements, offering memorandums, cross-border and offshore financings, including Regulation S and Rule 144A placements.

Corporate Governance

• Offering corporate governance advice to directors and officers of public companies, including director, officer, and audit committee duties and liabilities.
• Continuous disclosure expertise including NI 43-101 - Standards of Mining Disclosure and NI 51-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities.
• Advising on continuous disclosure obligations such as the preparation of MD&A, executive compensation disclosure and AIFs, SEDAR/EDGAR filings, annual and special meetings, proxy information circulars, related party transactions and the drafting of shareholder rights plans.
• Establishing reinvestment plans for stock options, SAR plans, employee benefits and dividend reinvestment plans and other employee and management compensation plans.