Georgian C. Dimopoulos

Georgian Dimopoulos counsels European, U.S. and Canadian clients on U.S. corporate matters, with a particular focus on cross-border capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.

Mr. Dimopoulos has worked on a broad range of transactions for investment banks, companies and other stakeholders across a number of industries, including technology, financial services, retail, life sciences, mining, oil and gas, real estate and telecommunications.

Examples of his representations include:

• the U.S. initial public offerings of Docebo Inc., Lightspeed Commerce Inc. and Score Media and Gaming Inc.
• the U.S. listings of CI Financial Corp. and Sprott Inc.
• high-yield debt offerings and liability management transactions of First Quantum Minerals, Ithaca Energy plc, Iceland Foods, IAMGOLD Corp. and goeasy Ltd.
• investment-grade debt offerings of Rogers Communications Inc., CI Financial Corp., Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Brookfield Finance Inc. and CIBC
• Xavier Niel, a French billionaire investor, through Iliad Group, his European telco, and NJJ Holding, his investment fund, in connection with a $4.4 billion cash tender offer for Millicom International Cellular SA
• the special committee of independent directors of Adevinta ASA in connection with the $13.2 billion acquisition of Adevinta
• ICEYE Oy in its growth funding round offering of convertible debt securities
• various equity offerings for Stevanato Group S.p.A., BillerudKorsnäs AB, Sono Group N.V., Zymeworks Inc. (including the largest-ever follow-on equity offering by a Canadian biotechnology company), Lithium Americas Corp., MAG Silver Corp., Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd., Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust, Allied Properties REIT and Montage Gold Corp.
• the placement agents in Lifezone Metals’ private placement of equity securities and business combination with GoGreen Investments
• Nokia Corporation in the sale of its VitalQIP business to Cygna Labs Corp
• Odyssey Acquisition S.A. in its merger with BenevolentAI, Europe’s largest-ever de-SPAC transaction and the largest listing of a biotech company on Euronext Amsterdam at the time

Mr. Dimopoulos’ broader corporate practice includes advising on corporate governance matters and periodic and current filings with the SEC, as well as on satisfying requirements set forth by the NYSE and Nasdaq. He has counseled clients including ASML Holding N.V., Kenon Holdings Ltd., CI Financial Corp., Pan American Silver Corp., ESSA Pharma Inc., Lightspeed Commerce Inc. and Shopify Inc. on such matters.