Paul J. Crath

Overview

Paul Crath is a Partner, one of the founding members of the Firm, and Head of our Capital Markets practice group. He is located in our New York Office.

Paul has over 25 years of transactional, structuring and advisory experience in all three aspects of business and commercial law: as a lawyer, in-house legal counsel, as well as in senior executive positions with several well-established family offices and private merchant banks.

Paul's international experience in both public and private market transactions has had him advise numerous portfolio companies and projects in global markets including the US, Canada, China and Latin America.  He has completed transactions and advised clients in numerous sectors including financial services, industrial companies, industrial manufacturing technology, telecom, real estate, mining, oil and gas.

Paul's work in these areas has included taking a lead role in the structuring, negotiation and completion of all documentation related to financing and offering documents including private placements, public offerings, bank financings, mergers and acquisitions and divestitures for public and private companies.

In the capital markets area, Paul has completed and advised as in-house counsel on multiple reverse take over and initial public offering transactions, including change of business and restructurings in US and Canadian markets and has experience in the US/Canadian cross-listing process having managed several OTCQX and OTCQB listings for Canadian companies.

Paul has extensive experience on all legal matters relating to merchant banking, family offices, and investment partnerships and the investment and management of their portfolio companies, having acted as general counsel and lead internal legal advisor on structuring, restructuring, finance, M&A and numerous governance related matters, including managing litigation and regulatory compliance matters and advising special committees of private and public Boards of Directors.

Paul began his career as a corporate lawyer at White & Case LLP specializing in banking, finance, structured finance and mergers and acquisitions. He then became an advisor to Canadian family offices on their global investments and was a principal at private equity firms focused on mining and resources, real estate, healthcare, specialty technology in global markets including China and Russia. He was Managing Director and General Counsel at Norvista Resources Corporation and has advised Canadian broker dealers on their Canadian, US and international activities. He is also a board member and CEO of a number of Canadian public companies that have been restructured and undergone numerous reverse merger transactions.