David Knight
David Knight practises principally in the areas of securities and mining law. David advises clients on a broad range of securities matters including public and private financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. He represents both issuers and investment dealers on a regular basis. David also represents mining clients on property acquisition and development, including option and joint venture agreements, and has extensive experience in flow-through financing.
Among the transactions that David has been involved in as lead counsel are a cross-border public debt offering by a major Canadian telecommunications company, a hostile take-over bid for a large Canadian mining company and a plan of arrangement involving the spin-out of mining assets of a public company. He has also recently advised a U.S. public company with an interest in a Chinese mining joint venture on re-domiciling to Canada for the purposes of effecting a public offering and listing on The Toronto Stock Exchange and a Canadian public company on the acquisition of a coal project in British Columbia.
The LEXPERT Legal Directory recognizes David as a recommended lawyer in the area of mining law.
- Queen's University, LL.B., 1980
- Queen's University, B.A. (Economics), 1976
- Ontario, 1982
- Member, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
- Member, Canadian Institute of Mining
- Member, Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario)
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Designated as a "Best Lawyer in Canada", 2007 & 2009
- Natural Resources Law
- Seconded to the Ontario Securities Commission, 1983-1984
- BV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
