Pascal de Guise is a trusted business lawyer who helps clients execute high-stakes transactions with clarity and confidence. With more than 25 years of experience, his practice spans the full lifecycle of corporate growth and transformation, including M&A, private placements, fund formation, joint ventures, public offerings, take-over bids, plans of arrangement, and governance. Pascal brings broad sector fluency to these areas, having worked extensively with clients in tech, telecom, media, life sciences, financial services, energy, and natural resources. Pascal is known for his sharp market judgment, deep technical command, and steady, collaborative style. He currently chairs the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s (CVCA) Venture Capital and Fund Formation Working Groups and serves on the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF)’s Corporate Finance Advisory Committee. He previously served as chair of the Canadian Club of Montréal and as a board member of the Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation. Pascal has been consistently recognized by leading legal directories including Chambers Canada, Lexpert’s Leading 500 Cross-Border Lawyers: A Guide to Doing Business in Canada 2025,The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and the Legal 500Canada.
Junex Inc. (“Junex”) (TSXV:JNX) and Cuda Energy Inc. (“Cuda”), a private Alberta based exploration and development company, entered into an arm’s-length arrangement agreement dated June 8, 2018, that provides for the combination of Cuda and Junex.
On May 25, 2016, ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (ProMetic) completed its bought-deal public offering of common shares through a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Capital Markets and Canaccord Genuity Corp., and that included Scotiabank, CIBC Capital Markets, National Bank Financial Inc., Paradigm Capital Inc. and Beacon Securities Ltd. (collectively, the Underwriters).
