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Heidi
Gordon

Partner

Toronto

Contact by email at [email protected]

t. +1 416-601-8176

2166

Law School

Queen's University

Bar Admission

Ontario, 2011

With a clear sense for what can make or break a deal, Heidi’s practical approach to solving challenges is what clients value most. 

Heidi is a business lawyer who leads her clients through their most important transactions, including M&A and capital raising. Her clients include Canadian and US-based private companies, public companies, management teams, boards of directors, and private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Heidi Co-Leads our National Tech M&A Practice, and is a member of our National Private Equity Practice.

" Heidi's focus on client service and substantive legal skills, coupled with her savvy commercial sense, are her greatest tools. "
CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS (2024)

Some of Heidi’s experience includes acting for the following clients:

  • Irwin (an investor relations and capital markets software solution) and its founders/shareholders in relation to the sale of Irwin to FactSet
  • Vista Equity Partners in relation to its acquisition of Risk Control Technologies (a risk management and loss control software company)
  • Modaxo in relation to its acquisition of curbside management and public safety businesses from Conduent
  • Silverlake in relation to a US$6.4 billion funding round of Vantage Data Centers (a strategic partner to global hyperscalers)
  • TSX-listed Corus Entertainment and Toon Boom Animation (an animation software company) in relation to the sale of Toon Boom to TPG
  • Horizn Studios (an employee digital learn and activation platform for financial services) and its founders/shareholders in relation to the sale of Horizn to Tritium Partners
  • Resolver (a risk intelligence software company) and its founders/shareholders in relation to the sale of Resolver to Kroll
  • TSX-listed Constellation Software in relation to its acquisition of WideOrbit (a US-based media software company) and related IPO spin-out by Constellation of its Lumine operating group into a stand-alone TSXV-listed company
  • Vista Equity Partners in relation to a US$350 million funding round of Assent Compliance (a supply chain sustainability management software company)
  • Harris Computer in relation to its acquisition of GOLO and Walter Innovations (a tenant mobile application and online manager platform)
  • TSX-listed Constellation Software in relation to its acquisition of Topicus.com (a Netherlands-based vertical markets software company, operating in the education, healthcare, finance and social services sectors) and related IPO spin-out by Constellation of its TSS operating group into a stand-alone TSXV-listed company
  • Providence Services Group in relation to its acquisition of Navin, Haffy & Associates (a MedTech consulting firm)
  • Vista Equity Partners in relation to its sale of Upserve (a restaurant management software company) to TSX-listed Lightspeed
  • Vista Equity Partners in relation to its acquisition of Obero Technologies (a sales performance management software company)
  • Jonas Software in relation to its acquisition of Leonardo Worldwide (a provider of digital assets management and digital marketing solutions for the hospitality sector)
  • Vista Equity Partners in relation to its acquisition of QuickMobile (an event management software company)
  • NASDAQ-listed Symantec in relation to its acquisition of SurfEasy (a VPN provider)
  • Energy Impact Partners in relation to a US$61 million funding round of ecobee (a maker of Wi-Fi enabled smart thermostats)
  • NASDAQ-listed NVIDIA in relation to its acquisition of a graphics and portability business from TransGaming

 

" She knows more about our business than most of us, and is an invaluable resource as a result. "
CLIENT, CHAMBERS & PARTNERS (2024)

Heidi completed secondments at Constellation Software, and the Office of Mergers & Acquisitions at the Ontario Securities Commission. While at Constellation, she led the acquisition of a number of privately-held software companies. In her role at the Ontario Securities Commission, she participated in the oversight of public M&A transactions and other matters involving public companies, and worked on policy projects in the areas of M&A and shareholder rights, including the most recent overhaul to Canada’s take-over bid regime.

Heidi is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer in her areas of practice, including being named a 2022 Lexpert Rising Star – Canada’s Leading Lawyers Under 40. She speaks and writes on M&A, corporate governance and related topics, including previously teaching a seminar on public M&A for the advanced securities law program at Western University and previously serving on the faculty of The Directors College, a university accredited corporate director development program. She is a past member of the Toronto Steering Committee of VersaFi (formerly, Women in Capital Markets).