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About Alex

Alex's practice covers a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and commercial transactions.

Alex joined Blakes as a summer student in 2019 and completed his articles with the Firm in 2020–2021.

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Representative matters in which Alex has been involved include:

  • GMS Inc. on its acquisition of the assets of Peridot Supply

  • Frontier Growth on its sale of Igloo Software to Appspace, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR

  • World Wide Technology Holding Co. LLC on its acquisition of Softchoice Corporation with an enterprise value of C$1.8-billion

  • Industry Diesel & Turbo Service on its sale to M&D Distributors

  • J.M. Smucker on its US$305-million divestiture of its Voortman brand to Second Nature Brands, a CapVest Partners portfolio company

  • OMERS on its C$1.35-billion sale of LifeLabs, a leading provider of testing services in Canada, to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated

  • D2L Inc. on the spin-out of its D2L Wave upskilling technology into a new independent standalone company, SkillsWave Corporation ("SkillsWave"), and the sale of indirect majority ownership in SkillsWave to John Baker, the CEO and Founder of D2L Inc.

  • GMM Pfaudler Ltd. on its acquisition of Professional Mixing Equipment Inc.

  • TruArc Partners on its investment in New Directions Aromatics, a supplier of natural ingredients to beauty and personal care markets

  • GGV Capital in their investment in Arteria AI, a company that sells AI-powered software designed to help financial institutions generate, collaborate on, and analyze various documents

Education

Admitted to the Ontario Bar – 2021
JD, Queen's University – 2020
MBA (Gold Medalist), Queen's University – 2019
BA (Political Science), Western University – 2015

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