Atty. Michael J. Lang
Michael Lang is a senior partner with 40 years' experience practising corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and public company compliance matters. Mr.
Corporate Governance Practice & More Attorney
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Michael J. Lang is a business and m&a attorney, practicing at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP. Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Corporate Governance Practice (2026), Best Lawyers in America — Corporate Law (2026), and Best Lawyers in America — Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2026).
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About Michael J. Lang
- Michael Lang is a senior partner with 40 years' experience practising corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and public company compliance matters
- Mr. Lang has served on and acted as counsel to several “blue ribbon” committees examining securities regulatory policy issues, including the Investment Dealers Association of Canada’s Committee on Take-Over Bid Regulation (Zimmerman Committee)
- Mr. Lang has handled numerous national and cross-border M&A transactions for Canadian and foreign clients
- He has counselled acquirors, target companies, controlling shareholders and institutional investors on take-over bids, issuer bids, going-private transactions, related-party transactions and business combinations
- Mr. Lang has counselled special committees of directors in reviewing and negotiating insider bids, going-private transactions, management buy-outs, reorganizations, arrangements and related-party transactions
- He represents financial advisors in advisory, valuation, fairness opinion and acquisition/divestiture assignments
- He has also represented issuers and underwriters in national, cross-border and international public offerings and private placements, and has counselled market participants on regulatory investigations and enforcement matters
- From 1982 to 1983, he was seconded to the Ontario Securities Commission as staff counsel and as legal advisor to the chairman of the commission
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Business & Corporate Law
Business attorneys advise founders and growing companies on entity formation, contracts, financing, M&A, and dispute resolution.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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