François Brabant

François Brabant is a Partner and lead of the Securities and Corporate Finance group in the Montréal office, practicing in the firm's Corporate Law group. He practices securities and corporate finance, M&A, and corporate and commercial law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions of small and medium enterprises. He advises public companies on transactional and regulatory matters, including private placements, prospectus offerings, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring transactions, privatizations, shareholder meetings, and employee incentive plans, with clients active across a wide variety of sectors including mining.

Mr. Brabant has advised on numerous significant transactions, including advising Cascades Inc. on its US$400 million senior notes private placement, advising Aya Gold & Silver Inc. on its CA$77.6 million bought deal public offering and its CA$92 million prospectus offering, advising Peak Fintech Group Inc. on its approximately CA$105 million acquisition of Cubeler Inc., and advising Clementia Pharmaceuticals Inc. on its US$137.9 million IPO on NASDAQ. He also advises private small and medium businesses on local and global growth strategies, including M&A, and has experience in mining company financing transactions including a US$20 million equity investment from a US private equity fund.

François holds an LLB from Université de Sherbrooke (2002). He has been recognized as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer and by The Legal 500 Canada in Energy and natural resources - mining.