Associate

Jeffrey A. Hart

Office

Vancouver

Key Practice Area

Mergers & Acquisitions

Year of Call

2018

Qualifications

Education

Jeff is a business lawyer focusing on mergers and acquisitions, day-to-day commercial matters, corporate governance and structuring matters, reorganizations, and debt and equity financings. He is known for providing pragmatic advice to high-growth businesses, private equity groups, founders and entrepreneurs on their complex commercial and M&A needs in the middle market, including private financings other strategic transactions, whether at the start-up or operating stage of their business.

A collaborative practitioner, he regularly represents both buyers and sellers in his transactional practice in private and public asset and share transactions and related debt and equity financings and has a proven ability of bringing together parties with divergent interests. He represents a broad range of clients, from start-ups to multi-nationals, and across a broad spectrum of industries, including in the technology, food and beverage, manufacturing and natural resource sectors.

Jeff has also been recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada as “One to Watch” in Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Corporate Law and Securities Law.

  • STEMCELL Technologies in its acquisition of SQZ Biotechnologies Company
  • STEMCELL Technologies in its acquisition of Propagenix Inc.
  • Universal Restoration Systems in its sale to Canstar Restorations
  • Intrahealth Systems Limited in its sale to WELL Health Technologies Corp.
  • Apri Insurance in its sale to People Corporation
  • Diversified Royalty Corp. in its acquisition of trademarks and royalty stream from Aimia Inc.
  • Arbutus Biopharma Corporation in its strategic financing with Roivant Sciences Ltd.
  • Stonemark Investments in its acquisition of Buckerfield’s
  • Real estate developer in its acquisition, re-finance and joint development of Vancouver-based real property
  • Intrinsyc Technologies in its sale to Lantronix Inc.
  • Online furniture company in its sale to a private equity fund
  • Various purchasers and vendors in private and public asset and share transactions
  • Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch, Mergers and & Acquisitions Law (2024-2026), Corporate Law (2025-2026) and Securities Law (2024-2026)
  • Member of the Association for Corporate Growth, BC Chapter
  • Member of the Law Society of British Columbia
  • Member of the Canadian Bar Association
  • Legal Advisor to the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce
  • Mentor, Centre for Business Law, Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia
  • Mentor, Canadian Bar Association
  • Author of “Escrow Agreements in Business Acquisitions” and co-author of “Closing Agendas” in Buying and Selling a Business: Annotated Precedents for Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (May, 2025 Update).