Tad Gruchalla-Wesierski
Tad combines his extensive and varied experience in transactional work, project and corporate finance and other securities matters with his qualifications in both civil law and common law systems to structure and carry out international and domestic transactions. He has experience with mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies internationally and in Canada, private placements and public offerings of debt and equity securities in the U.S. and European cross-border markets as well as in Canada.
Tad has assisted clients with reorganizations and joint ventures, as well as structured and project financings in Canada, Russia and Azerbaijan. He has experience with EBRD and IFC project financings as well as private sector bank financings.
Tad has a wealth of experience with transactions in the resource, power and telecommunications industries in Canada and internationally.
- McGill University, Bachelor of Civil Law, 1986
- McGill University, Student, Master of International Law Program,1983/1984
- University of Windsor, LL.B., 1981
- Hague Academy of International Law, student, 1981
- Alberta, 1996
- Quebec, 1987
- Ontario, 1983
- English
- French
- Polish
- Russian
- Member, International Bar Association
- Member, Canadian Council of International Law
- Member, American Society of International Law
- Past President, Canada Business Association of Russia in Moscow
- Past Chairman of the delegations subcommittee of the International Business Committee, Calgary Chamber of Commerce
- "Legal and Regulatory Developments Affecting Corporate Governance" March 2005, 8th Western Canadian Securities Forum
- "Russian Pipeline Regulatory Frameword" October 2004, CERBA
- "Regulatory Developments Post Sarbane-Oxley in Canada" April 2004, 7th Western Canadian Securities Forum
- "Planning For When Things Go Wrong in Russian Oil Company Finance" June 2001, Euroforum Conference on Oil and Gas Financing in the Russian Federation, Moscow
- "Insurance Aspects of Project Finance in Russia" May 2001, Speech to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, London
- "Export Of Refined Palladium and Platinum From The Russian Federation" March 2001, Palladium Group Metals Conference, Toronto
- "Desired Improvements to Russian Mineral Legislation" March 2001 Canadian Russian Business Forum and Canadian Department of External Affairs Seminar, Toronto
- Co-author, "Legal Business the Quebecois Way," International Corporate Law, 1991
- Co-author, "Extraterritorial Application of Export Control Legislation: Canada and the U.S.A.", Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1990
- Author, "A Framework for Understanding Soft Law," McGill Law Journal, 1984
