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Dan Thomson is a partner in the Corporate Group at WeirFoulds with a transaction-based practice that focuses on banking and financial services, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate/commercial matters.

Dan has more than 20 years of legal and business experience, including nearly 10 years at an international law firm, two years running a commercial business unit for the Canadian subsidiary of a multi-national Fortune 300 insurance company, five years running his own legal practice, and five years at a well-known mid-size Toronto firm.

Dan has acted for bank and non-bank lenders, borrowers and guarantors as well as for investors and issuers and also for buyers and sellers in domestic and cross-border secured lending, equity and debt financing, joint venture and mergers & acquisition transactions across a broad spectrum of industries. Dan also practised in London, England for a year where he focused primarily on foreign investment into Canada and M&A transactions involving Canadian entities. Over the years, Dan has gained extensive experience representing start-up, growing mid-size, large established businesses as well as multi-national conglomerates.

Since 2006, Dan has been invited annually to teach an upper-year undergraduate business law course at The Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. Dan has been nominated by the school’s students for the school’s annual Teaching Excellence Award.