Wayne Egan is the Co-Managing Partner at WeirFoulds. He also practises in the area of securities and corporate law, focusing on advising clients involved in raising money, considering and implementing going public transactions and meeting legal obligations existing in the public markets.

Wayne is experienced in advising private and public corporations on various financing and regulatory matters, including initial public offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and stock exchange listing applications. Wayne couples his deep understanding of the highly technical and complex nature of securities law with his ability to provide clients with clear guidance and easy to understand advice in a timely and efficient manner.

Wayne is currently on the board of directors for Canadian junior oil company, James Bay Resources Limited and has years of previous experience serving as a director on a number of boards for public companies in various industries. This gives him a unique insight into the challenges his clients face allowing him to partner more effectively with clients’ management teams and other professional advisors to achieve the best outcome.

He recently acted on:

• financings for resource, high-tech and industrial companies in Canada
• M&A transactions for international industrial and resource clients
• cross border initial public offerings
• registrations for investment fund clients, counsellors and dealers

Wayne has acted for investment dealers and investment advisors in a broad range of financing transactions and has represented investment and mutual funds with regard to regulatory registrations and qualification for distribution across Canada. His corporate law experience also includes matters relating to share purchase and sale agreements, shareholder agreements and commercial contracts.

He has presented at client and professional seminars and authored several papers on corporate governance issues.