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About Mark

Mark's practice covers a broad range of corporate and commercial matters with a focus on private funds, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital financings and investments. Mark regularly advises pension funds and other institutional investors in connection with fund investments, direct investments and co-investments across a wide range of industry sectors including real estate, infrastructure, private equity, energy private debt.

In addition to transactional work, Mark's practice includes advising clients on complex commercial arrangements, corporate restructurings and corporate governance matters.

In 2024, Mark completed a secondment with the medical device division of a large multinational life sciences company where he worked on a wide variety of corporate, commercial and compliance matters. Prior to practising law, Mark obtained a PhD in organic chemistry and was a postdoctoral researcher in life sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Select Experience

Mohamed's representative experience includes advising:

Investments

  • Various pension funds and other institutional investors on their private equity, real estate, debt, energy and infrastructure fund investments

  • Various pension funds and other investors on domestic and international co-investments in a wide range of industry sectors

  • Strategic investors and founder-owned companies on minority and majority investment transactions

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Freedom CNG, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management, in connection with the acquisition of Compression Technology Corporation

  • L Catterton and FYihealth on the business combination of FYi's medical aesthetics business with Functionalab

  • YUHU Inc. on its acquisition by HappyCo, Inc.

  • Pacific Equity Partners on its C$165-million divestiture of AST Investor Services Inc. (Canada) and AST Trust Company (Canada) to the TMX Group Limited

  • goeasy on its C$320-million acquisition of LendCare

  • The Toronto-Dominion Bank on its acquisitions of asset management firm Greystone Capital Management

  • Arjun Infrastructure Partners and Fengate Asset Management on the acquisition of ONroute highway service centres

  • Parthenon Capital in connection with its acquisition of BluePay Canada

Venture Capital Financings and Investments

  • Final Blueprint Inc. (o/a Willful) on its Series A financing round

  • Burai Inc., a software company, on its Seed financing round

  • FORUS Therapeutics Inc. on its Class B financing round

  • RBC on its investment in Tradelogiq, an Alternative Trading Systems operator

  • Hi Mama Inc. on multiple financing rounds, including its C$70-million Series B round led by Bain Capital Double Impact, including existing investors Round13 Capital and BDC Capital's Women in Technology Venture Fund

  • Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund in connection with its Series A investment in Zucara Therapeutics Inc.

  • A large financial institution on its strategic investment in a technology company

  • Several venture capital firms on investments in Canadian technology companies

Awards & Recognition

Mark has been recognized in the following publication:

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada 2026 (Corporate Governance Practice)
Education

Admitted to the Ontario Bar – 2018
JD, University of Toronto – 2017
PhD (Chemistry), Queen's University – 2010
BSc (Hon.), Queen's University – 2006

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