Christopher Cummings is a partner in the Capital Markets and Canada Practice Groups. He has worked on a broad range of public and private transactions for investment banks and companies in a number of industries, including oil and gas, mining, financial services, transportation, technology and telecommunications.
Chris has been recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of Capital Markets by Chambers Global and The Legal 500 since 2014, and Who’s Who Legal since 2016. In 2025, Chris was ranked second in “Top M&A Lawyers in Canada” and “Top Energy & Power Lawyers in North America” by MergerLinks.
Examples of Chris’ previous representations include:
- General Atlantic for corporate and securities law matters, including with respect to its portfolio companies across multiple industry and geographical sectors
- Alignment Healthcare for corporate and securities law matters, including in its IPO and a convertible note offering and multiple equity offerings
- Tricon Residential in its U.S. IPO
- The underwriters in the IPO and multiple follow-on offerings for Shopify
- The underwriters in the IPO and multiple follow-on offerings for Ivanhoe Electric
- The underwriters in the IPO of CPI Card Group
- New Gold for corporate and securities law matters, including in its sale to Couer Mining and in multiple high-yield bond and other securities offerings
- National Healthcare Properties in its current IPO
- ATS Corporation for corporate and securities law matters, including in its U.S. IPO and in multiple high-yield bond offerings
- The underwriters in the IPO of Sprott Physical Platinum and Palladium Trust
- The underwriters in the U.S. IPO of Enthusiast Gaming
- The underwriters in the U.S. IPO of Nouveau Monde Graphite
- Canadian Natural Resources Limited for corporate and securities law matters, including in multiple bond offerings
- TransAlta for corporate and securities law matters, including in multiple bond offerings
- The underwriters in numerous offerings by Alimentation Couche-Tard, Ballard Power, CAE, CI Financial, Colliers International, Columbia Pipelines, Eldorado Gold, First Majestic Silver, Fortis, Franco-Nevada, International Tower Hill Mines, Manulife Financial, NovaGold Resources, Osisko Development Corp., Precision Drilling, Seven Generations Energy, Skeena Resources, TC Energy and Westport Fuel Systems
- Constellation Software for corporate and securities law matters, including in a bond offering and in its public offering of rights and convertible debentures
- Teck Resources for corporate and securities law matters, including in multiple securities offerings and on the sale of its coal business to Glencore
- CGI for corporate and securities law matters, including in multiple bond offerings
- CDP Financial in the establishment of a $20 billion debt program and multiple offerings of notes
- Cenovus Energy for corporate and securities law matters, including in multiple offerings
- TELUS Corporation for corporate and securities law matters, including in multiple securities offerings
- MAG Silver for corporate and securities law matters, including in its acquisition by Pan Silver and in multiple securities offerings
- Equinox Gold for corporate and securities law matters, including on multiple acquisitions and securities offerings
- AuRico Gold in a high-yield bond offering and in its merger with equals with Alamos Gold
