Luke Hills
Associate
- Year of Call, British Columbia (2017)
- Year of Call, Ontario (2020)
Areas of focus
Bio
Luke is an associate in Gowling WLG’s Toronto office. His practice focuses on domestic, international, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions for both public and private companies, private equity and venture capital funds, and a variety of capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters.
Luke has acted as counsel to Canadian and international purchasers and vendors in private mergers and acquisition transactions, and purchasers and target companies in public company acquisitions. He has acted for both public and private issuers, as well as underwriters in a variety of public and exempt market offerings, in addition to private equity funds, venture capital funds, and institutional and strategic investors on various investments in Canadian companies. He acts on transactions involving a wide range of industry sectors, including private equity, venture capital, gaming, life sciences, cannabis, technology, automotive, manufacturing, mining, retail and consumer products, and real estate.
Luke's considerable experience includes the following transactional and advisory work:
- Mergers and acquisition transactions for both public and private companies (by way of plans of arrangement, share acquisitions, take-over bids, reverse take-overs, and asset purchases and sales).
- Public offerings of equity and debt, initial public offerings, short form and long form prospectus offerings, issuer bids, rights offerings, exempt market offerings, as well as other public and private equity offerings and debt offerings.
- Advising on stock exchange listing and exchange compliance matters, corporate governance (including special committee) matters, and regulatory compliance matters.
- Advising on general corporate and commercial agreements, including joint venture agreements, partnership agreements, and shareholder agreements.
Prior to joining Gowling WLG, Luke practiced in the securities group of a full-service national law firm. In his free time, Luke volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters Toronto.