Stephen Howard Halperin

Stephen Halperin serves as counsel at Goodmans after more than 30 years as a partner and more than 20 years as a member of the Executive Committee. He is a past co-chair of the firm’s corporate securities group. His practice has for many years been focused upon transactional corporate and securities law, with particular emphasis on domestic and international corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance (including activist shareholders) matters. Between late 2007 and early 2009, Steve acted as lead counsel to the Pan Canadian Investors Committee for Third-Party Asset Backed Commercial Paper, which initiated and successfully implemented the C$32 billion restructuring of that market, the largest court supervised restructuring ever undertaken in Canada.

Steve has been peer-selected four times as Toronto Corporate Governance Lawyer of the Year, three times as Toronto Corporate Lawyer of the Year, and once each as Toronto Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer and Securities Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in Canada . He has previously been named as one of the world’s “Top 30” in the separate categories of capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance in Euromoney's Best of the Best . He was also designated as one of ten “most highly regarded individuals” in each of these three categories in the 2021 edition of Lexology Index Canada and was recognized as one of two Canadians in Lexology Index: Global Elite Thought Leader - Governance 2022 . Lexology Index's global survey previously ranked him as the only Canadian on its list of the seven “most highly regarded” North American M&A lawyers, describing him as “one of the finest lawyers in the world” in this practice area. Lexology Index has also recognized him as one of two Canadian “Global Thought Leaders for Capital Markets”.