Peter Rowntree
Peter is a business lawyer focusing on a wide range of areas including M&A transactions, debt financings, shareholder agreements, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations both within Canada and cross-border.
He advises a diverse range of clients in transactions across a number of sectors, including private equity, emerging technology, real estate, mortgage brokerage, professional services, forestry, mining, pension funds, health care, agriculture, and communications. Peter also appreciates working with family offices.
Peter especially enjoys working with long term business owners who are deeply passionate about their business, employees and legacy and ready to sell. These are particularly meaningful and life-changing transactions for clients.
Peter is described as highly responsive and easy to work with. He provides clarity for clients, bringing a greater understanding of their transaction and ease in decision-making.
Peter completed his MBA, giving him additional knowledge and skills to evaluate and advance business interests for his clients.
education & accreditation
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (M.B.A., 2021)
University of Toronto (J.D., 2014)
New York University (B.A., 2010)
areas of expertise
Business Law
Mergers & Acquisitions
experience
- Share sale of one of Canada’s largest mortgage services businesses
- Combined share and asset sale of a marine services business
- Share purchase of a heavy machinery sales business
- Asset purchase of a multi-site day care business
- Equity financing of a private health clinic
- Purchase of shares of a local manufacturer selling forestry equipment to international and local customers
- Purchase of shares of a cloud-native software development business by an international software company
- Sale of shares of an internationally recognized, British Columbia-based apparel brand
- Asset purchase of a local microbrewery
- Acquisition of the shares of a number of industrial foam manufacturing businesses as part of a consolidation
- Sale of shares of a window and door manufacturing business servicing Western Canada and the USA
- Purchase of shares of an HVAC business by a US-based private equity firm
- Purchase of shares of a personal storage business by a US-based fund
- Purchase of the assets of a local media company, including certain prominent local magazines