A partner in the Corporate Department, co-head of the Capital Markets and Securities Group and head of the firm's Canadian Practice Group, Edwin S. Maynard focuses primarily on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions. He has represented many U.S., Canadian and other non-U.S. issuers in a broad range of securities offerings, public and private, equity and debt and in cross-border acquisitions and restructurings, both public and private. Mr. Maynard has advised numerous issuers, underwriters and placement agents in connection with cross-border offerings made in Canada and the United States pursuant to the Canadian-U.S. multi-jurisdictional disclosure system, Rule 144A and Regulation S. Mr. Maynard regularly advises U.S., Canadian and other non-U.S. public companies with respect to their U.S. reporting obligations. He is recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of Capital Markets by Chambers USA, Legal 500, The Best Lawyers in America and Who's Who Legal.

Mr. Maynard has recently represented:

• Maple Group Acquisition Corporation, a consortium of thirteen leading Canadian financial institutions, pension funds and capital markets participants, in an unsolicited Cdn$3.9 billion cash offer for up to 80 percent of the shares of TMX Group, the public parent of the Toronto Stock Exchange. (Pending)
• Western Coal Corp. in its acquisition by Walter Energy, Inc. for a total consideration of approximately Cdn.$3.3 billion. (Pending) 
• Ivanhoe Mines Inc. in an agreement under which Rio Tinto will assume direct management of Ivanhoe Mines' Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia, increase its equity stake in Ivanhoe Mines to 49% and provide $4.4 billion of financing to Ivanhoe Mines, and with a related $1.2 billion public rights offering by Ivanhoe Mines. (Pending) 
• The Government of Canada in connection with the initial public offering by General Motors Company (GM) of common stock and convertible preferred stock. The Government, through its wholly owned subsidiary, held approximately 12 percent of GM’s common stock. The IPO was the biggest in North American history. 
• Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in connection with a Rule 144A offering of $5 billion of debt securities, the largest non-governmental offering by any Canadian issuer in the United States to date.
• Pengrowth Energy Trust in connection with two public offerings of Cdn.$300 million and Cdn.$461 million of trust units. 
• Eldorado Gold in connection with the acquisition of Sino Gold Mining Limited for Cdn.$2 billion and in its acquisition of 57.9 million shares of Sino Gold Mining Limited. 
• Teck Resources Limited in connection with a $1.5 billion PIPE investment by China Investment Corporation; a Rule 144A offering of $4.2 billion of senior secured notes; and its $14.1 billion acquisition of 100 percent of the assets of Fording Canadian Coal Trust. 
• Nexen Inc. in connection with a public offering of $1 billion of senior notes. 
• Agrium Inc. in connection with its $4.9 billion unsolicited offer to acquire CF Industries; a public offering of $1.375 billion of common stock; a public offering of $500 million of 6.75% debentures due 2019; and its $2.65 billion acquisition of UAP. 
• Silver Standard Resources Inc., a Canadian silver resource company, in connection with a public offering of $88 million of common shares and a Rule 144A offering of $138 million of its 4.5% senior convertible notes due 2028. 
• Advantage Energy Income Fund in connection with a public offering in Canada and a private placement in the United States of Cdn.$110 million of trust units. 
• Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. in connection with its merger of equals with Bowater Incorporated, creating a new U.S. public company with an enterprise value of approximately $8 billion; and subsequently in Abitibi-Bowater’s U.S. chapter 11 and Canadian insolvency proceedings.

Mr. Maynard speaks frequently on a range of securities law and mergers and acquisitions topics, most often on the effects of legal developments in the United States on Canadian companies and their underwriters/agents. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Maynard served as the sole American representative on the Securities Advisory Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission.

Mr. Maynard received a number of awards for his pro bono work on behalf of micro-entrepreneurs in Harlem. Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives, Mr. Maynard was actively involved in the Vance Center's efforts that led to the 2008 launch of the Pro Bono Declaration of the Americas, committing signing law firms and other legal institutions throughout the Americas to do pro bono work. Mr. Maynard is also a director of the Classic Stage Company.

During his academic career, Mr. Maynard studied in France, Mexico and Guatemala. He speaks French and Spanish.