ABOUT
Faran Umar-Khitab is co-leader of Gowling WLG’s Corporate Commercial, Funds and Private M&A Practice Group in Canada. Known for his clear, steady counsel and strong execution on high-stakes, time-sensitive deals, he maintains an active practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance and commercial law.
Working across a range of key industries, Faran draws on extensive experience negotiating purchase and sale transactions; leading capital markets matters (including issuances of debt and equity); structuring shareholder, partnership and joint venture arrangements; and implementing sophisticated cross-border tax structures.
He routinely advises institutional investors, private equity and venture capital funds, and strategic purchasers on a breadth of complex transactions and also supports issuers on public and private financings and commercial agreements. In addition, Faran provides general counsel services to a number of clients and advises boards of directors and special committees on corporate governance and transactional matters.
