John Matthew Gregory Valley

John is the Chair of Osler’s Corporate Governance practice and a member of the cross-disciplinary Risk Management and Crisis Response practice. His practice focuses on providing practical advice to clients on a broad range of corporate governance and securities law matters in both the public and private company context.

John regularly advises businesses and boards of directors on matters including shareholder activism, stakeholder disputes, crisis response strategies and complicated public disclosure. John also advises on complex joint venture, partnership and shareholder agreements and similar arrangements, including in the infrastructure space and with respect to First Nations partnerships.

He is also a recognized thought leader, and pursued his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, England, where his research focused on the corporate governance of mixed ownership enterprises involving government blockholders. John is an avid sportsperson, having played competitive first-team university golf while studying abroad at both the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and Cambridge University, England, where he won his full Blue.

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. in its agreement to increase its ownership in DECIEM Beauty Group Inc.

Bausch Health Companies Inc. in its intention to spin off its eye health business into an independent publicly traded company

Regis Corporation in connection with its sale and subsequent franchise of substantially all of its mall-based salons in Canada.