Overview
Ken Chun’s practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, financing transactions and all types of corporate and commercial law. He has extensive experience in structuring and negotiating company acquisitions and dispositions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, business structuring and reorganizations and other complex business transactions involving domestic and foreign companies, both public and private, financial institutions, private equity firms and entrepreneurs and other owner-operated corporations.
Ken often leads large transaction teams involving lawyers and other professional advisors with various types of expertise. He coordinates the legal, regulatory, and Canadian tax aspects of those transactions from the early planning stages to successful closing. Ken also practises all aspects of corporate/commercial law including shareholders’ agreements, limited partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, distribution agreements, and various other commercial agreements.
Ken’s practice spans a wide range of industries including wireless and telecommunications, digital infrastructure, private equity, private REITs and mutual fund trusts, senior housing, mortgage lending, insurance companies and insurance brokerages, multimedia and technology, and automotive and other manufacturing sectors.
Notable matters
- Vantage Data Centers with respect to its USD$250 million raise in structured debt financing
- Vantage Data Centers with respect to its USD$525 million raise in structured debt financing
- Modop, LLC in its acquisition of The Evans Hunt Group Inc.
- Vantage Data Centers with respect to its USD$1.214 billion raise in structured debt financing
- Aurick Partners LLC with respect to the merger of Purely CRM and Endeavour Solutions Inc.
- Highcourt Partners Limited in its acquisition by Brown & Brown Inc., a leading international insurance brokerage firm
- Modop, LLC in its acquisition of Context Creative Acquisition Inc.
- Car Media 2.0, a market-leading automotive merchandising company providing photo and video full-serve products for new and used vehicle inventory, with respect to its acquisition by Mobials Inc.
- Highcourt Partners in its acquisition of the Breckles Group to form Highcourt Breckles Group, a Canadian insurance and risk consulting company
- Viral Nation Inc., a Canadian digital media innovation group, with respect to a cross-border investment round by Eldridge Industries and Maverix Private Equity for a combined total of CA$250 million
- Sensors & Software Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of Ground Penetrating Radar products, in its acquisition by SPX Corporation, a supplier of highly engineered products and technologies
- Vantage Data Centers regarding a strategic partnership with a consortium of investors led by Colony Capital in a $1.2 billion investment
- Vantage Data Centers, LLC regarding its $259 million acquisition of two data centers in Quebec from Quebecor Media Inc.
- Worldlynx Wireless LP and its subsidiary Day 2 Mobility Inc. in its acquisition by a national wireless carrier
- Apple Express Courier Ltd., a provider of highly customized, outsourced and last-mile supply chain solutions for large healthcare, IT and retail businesses, in its acquisition by a wholly owned subsidiary of bpost SA-NV, the Belgian-based international parcel and mail delivery service
- Novo Motor Acoustic Systems, Inc., an international Tier 2 rubber moulding automotive supplier, in its acquisition by a private equity firm
- Mistral Equity Partners LLC in its $126 million acquisition of Snack Alliance, Inc. and Nalley’s Canada Limited
- The Royalton Limited Partnerships with respect to their $95 million sale of two luxury retirement homes to Leisureworld Senior Care Corporation
- Worldlynx Wireless LP in its $125 million acquisition/consolidation of ten Bell Mobility independent wireless dealers across Canada and related senior and subordinated debt financing
Professional memberships
- Law Society of Ontario
- Canadian Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
