Catherine Youdan

Catherine is the Practice Group Leader of the Capital Markets group in Toronto. Catherine’s practice focuses on equity and debt capital market transactions, and mergers & acquisitions. She has acted for issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, secondary offerings and private placements, and for purchasers and target companies in public company acquisitions and purchasers and vendors in asset and share purchase transactions. Catherine also has experience representing special committees in connection with M&A transactions. Catherine has experience in industries such as financial services, healthcare, consumer/retail, and real estate. Catherine also provides ongoing advice to public issuers in various industry sectors with respect to corporate governance requirements, continuous disclosure obligations and stock exchange matters. · Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP