While the declaration of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as a global pandemic in Q1 – and its subsequent impact – resulted in a sharp decrease in deal volumes in the first and second quarters of 2020, deal volumes rebounded strongly in Q4. In this article – titled “Top public M&A legal developments in 2020”, we provide an overview of those trends as well as some of the most notable Canadian legal developments in public M&A in 2020.
This article is authored by Alex Gorka, Manny Pressman and Jeremy Fraiberg, who are all partners in Osler’s Corporate group.
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