Jeff Hergott

Jeff Hergott is a partner practising in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate commercial law. Jeff has experience representing issuers, investment dealers and other stakeholders in a wide variety of capital markets and M&A transactions. He regularly advises clients on both public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities.

Mandates that Jeff has been involved with include acting for:

• Origin Therapeutics Holdings Inc. in its reverse take-over transaction with Safe Supply Streaming Co Ltd.
• Ridout & Maybee LLP in its definitive agreement to be acquired by IPH Limited and to join Smart & Biggar
• Heliene Inc., a North American-made solar PV module manufacturer, in financings totaling US$170 million
• The Flowr Corporation in its $35 million sale of subsidiary Holigen Holdings to Akanda Corp. and Cannahealth Limited

Jeff’s M&A experience includes advising clients in respect of public and private share and asset acquisitions, mergers, takeovers and joint ventures and also includes advising clients in connection with going-public transactions. Jeff also routinely works with start-up and growth companies through all segments of their life cycle from formation, through various rounds of financings and eventual exits via capital market transactions or private sales. Jeff takes a collaborative approach to working with entrepreneurs.

Jeff represents a range of cannabis industry participants including licensed producers and applicants, retail participants and a range of ancillary service providers. Jeff has acted as lead counsel in a variety of transactions, including advising Tokyo Smoke with its early stage financings, through its public listing and ultimately its sale to Canopy Growth Corporation.

Jeff is an instructor with the Board Diversity Network, a networking and board-readiness educational program for diverse executives that Wildeboer Dellelce co-founded in 2023 as part of their firmwide diversity initiatives.