Bio

Michael Herman is a partner in Gowling WLG's Toronto office and past co-leader of the firm's Corporate Finance, M&A and Private Equity Group. His practice focuses on business law, particularly mergers and acquisitions. With more than 30 years of experience, Michael is highly regarded as a strategic adviser to a broad range of clients, in particular, entrepreneurial, privately held companies, and mid-market private equity funds and investment institutions. He has extensive experience acting for clients on a broad range of corporate and business matters, including M&A, corporate development and corporate finance. In addition to his background in private practice, Michael spent a number of years in senior executive positions at various multi-national public corporations, where he was responsible for strategic planning and direction, asset acquisitions and dispositions, strategic partnerships, debt and equity offerings, corporate governance and other corporate-wide marketing and investor relations activities. Michael also serves as the general counsel to the firm.