An accomplished dealmaker, Jonathan helps clients navigate complex transactions across multiple industries.

Jonathan See is a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto and Co-head of the firm’s national M&A Group and Private Equity Group. He is one of Canada’s most well-known M&A lawyers acting for many of the leading financial sponsors in the market and multiple strategics on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions, particularly in the technology, energy transition, infrastructure, energy and mining, and real estate industries.

Jonathan is Chambers-ranked, and repeatedly recognized by Legal 500, IFLR, Best Lawyers and Lexpert, for his significant experience in M&A, private equity, infrastructure, project finance and real estate. He was named a Rising Star by Lexpert, the annual award that honours Canada’s “Leading Lawyers Under 40”. He also led Canadian Law Awards’ 2022 M&A Deal of the Year - Brookfield Infrastructure’s C$15 billion cash and securities exchange takeover bid for Inter Pipeline Ltd.

Jonathan routinely advises high-profile clients across a broad variety of industries on complex and innovative M&A and private equity transactions, including some of the biggest in the market. Select recent experience includes:

Infrastructure, Power and Mining

• Brookfield Infrastructure in connection with its takeover bid for Inter Pipeline Ltd. for approximately C$15 billion
• Brookfield Asset Management in its agreement to buy HomeServe PLC for £4.08 billion
• Brookfield Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in its acquisition of Compass Datacenters from RedBird Capital Partners and Azrieli Group
• Enercare Inc. in the acquisition all of the issued and outstanding units of HydroSolution L.P. and HydroSolution Ltd.
• Blackstone and Benettons in their €58 billion buyout offer for Atlantia
• TD Asset Management and IST3 Investment Foundation in their C$1.7 billion agreement to acquire up to 100% of Alberta PowerLine from Canadian Utilities Limited and Quanta Services Inc.
• Instar Essential Infrastructure Fund in its investment in Steel Reef Infrastructure Corp. and its acquisition of a portfolio of gas plants from Crescent Point Energy Corp.
• SCF Partners Inc. in its acquisition of Entegris Inc.'s Pipeline and Industrial Materials business which consists of Flowchem, Val-Tex, and Sealweld
• Magris Performance Materials in its definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Imerys Talc America Inc., Imerys Talc Vermont Inc. and Imerys Talc Canada Inc.

Transition (e.g., Business transformation, clean power and sustainable and technology solutions)

• Brookfield Renewable Holdings in its exclusive negotiations with Impala to acquire a majority stake in Neoen for €6.1 billion and launch a mandatory tender offer for 100% of the company
• Brookfield Infrastructure in its C$4.3 billion take private transaction of Enercare Inc. (including Metergy Solutions)
• TD Asset Management in the acquisition of approximately 51% of the outstanding shares of Rabbalshede Kraft AB, a leading operator in renewable energy in the Nordic region
• TD Asset Management in its acquisition of a portfolio of nine eReserve battery energy storage facilities in Alberta, from a private equity fund managed by Kensington Capital Advisors Inc., to create Enfinite Energy, a dynamic developer, owner, and operator in the power generation and energy storage sectors
• Instar Essential Infrastructure Fund II in its acquisition of PRT Growing Services from private equity firm TriWest Capital Partners
• Instar Asset Management Inc. in its acquisition of Greenwood Mushrooms Development Corp.
• PRT Growing Services with its acquisition of International Forest Company
• Antarctica Capital, LLC in its acquisition of UrtheCast’s Geosys agriculture analytics business and its UrtheDaily satellite constellation project
• CVC DIF (formerly DIF Capital Partners) in its acquisition of Diverso Energy
• Power Sustainable Lios in GoodLeaf Farm’s C$150 million financing
• Vision Ridge Partners, LLC in acquiring 100% of the equity interests in Vegpro International

Transportation

• Brookfield Infrastructure and GIC, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund, in the US$8.4 billion acquisition of Genesee & Wyoming Inc., US freight railroad owner and operator
• CVC Capital Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake of Scan Global Logistics
• TD Asset Management in its joint investment with Fair Market Value Capital Partners to acquire a 28% interest in PSA Italy from PSA International, a leading global port operator
• TD Asset Management in the acquisition of JLIF Holdings (Project Service) US, Inc. and its 100% subsidiary Project Services LLC, which operates the Connecticut Service Plazas, by Applegreen plc
• Instar Essential Infrastructure Fund, JP Morgan Asset Management, Partners Group AG, Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited in its acquisition of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport and subsequent sale by Instar, Partners Group and Kilmer in the sale of their interest in Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport to JP Morgan Asset Management
• Instar Essential Infrastructure Fund in its acquisition of AMPORTS Inc. and its acquisition of Skyservice Investments Inc.
• Skyservice Business Aviation in their purchase of interests in Fontainebleau Aviation's fixed-based operators in Miami Opa-Locka and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airports

TMT and Healthcare

• Brookfield Infrastructure, investing through its super core-infrastructure fund, together with Alecta acquired 49% of Telia Company’s tower business in Sweden, expanding the partnership where Brookfield and Alecta acquired 49% of Telia’s tower business in Finland and Norway
• Brookfield Infrastructure and Evoque Data Center Solutions, in its acquisition of Cyxtera Technologies
• Mubadala Capital and Softbank in the acquisition of Impark from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
• CVC Capital Partners in its definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in ExamWorks
• Partners Group (USA) Inc. in its acquisition of SureWerx from The Riverside Company
• Boyd Gaming Corporation on acquisition of Pala Interactive LLC for US$170 million
• PTV Group in its acquisition of a majority stake in Econolite
• Trinity Capital Partners in its acquisition of first tranche of PowerBand Solutions Inc.
• MPM BioImpact in completing its acquisition of Reunion Neuroscience Inc.
• The management shareholders of 9 Story Media Group in connection with Scholastic's US$186 million investment in 9 Story Media Group