About Tina M. Woodside-Shaw

Tina M. Woodside-Shaw is a Toronto partner at Gowling WLG whose work centres on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and governance, with mining a recurring focus. On the deal side, acquirers and targets alike come to Woodside-Shaw for takeover bids, whether friendly or hostile, while the financing work runs from IPOs to private placements and exchange listings.

Woodside-Shaw earned an LLB at Queen's and was called to the Ontario bar in 1990. Inside the firm, the partner has held a run of leadership posts: a seat on Gowling WLG's Board, co-leading its national Corporate Finance and M&A group, and heading the Toronto office's Corporate Finance Department. Between 2015 and 2022 came a term as Firm Managing Partner, Internal, with oversight of how partners, associates and students were recruited, kept, advanced and paid, along with the quality of the firm's legal service.

These days the partner also serves as General Counsel of Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, looking after the firm's own legal affairs and risk, including conflicts, compliance and governance. That governance experience reaches past the firm, too. Woodside-Shaw holds the ICD.D certified director designation, has sat on the boards of public and private companies and not-for-profits, and once served on the Ontario Securities Commission's Securities Advisory Committee.

The mark Woodside-Shaw has left goes beyond deals. More than 25 years ago, Woodside-Shaw helped start GROW, the firm's network for women professionals that's now called WomenRise. In 2017, the partner was among the Lexpert Zenith Award winners.

Practice areas

Business & Corporate Law

Mergers and acquisitions

Takeover bids, friendly and hostile, plus other business combinations, acting for buyers and for targets. Files include Franco-Nevada's acquisition of Gold Wheaton Gold and a substantial issuer bid High Desert Gold used to fend off a hostile offer.

Corporate finance and capital markets

Initial public offerings, prospectus offerings, private placements (brokered or not) and stock exchange listings. Highvista Gold's first listing on the TSX Venture Exchange is one example.

Mining transactions

Resource companies feature throughout the deal list, from Taurus Drilling's sale to Major Drilling to South American Silver's purchase of High Desert Gold.

Education & credentials

  • LLB, Queen's University (1988)
  • BA, Queen's University (1985)
  • Called to the Ontario bar (1990)
  • Certified director designation (ICD.D), Directors' Education Program, Institute of Corporate Directors/Rotman School of Business (2005)

Memberships & affiliations

In the community

  • Helped found GROW, Gowling WLG's network for women professionals (now WomenRise), more than 25 years ago.

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