Liam
Tracey-Raymont

Partner
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Admitted to the Ontario Bar: 2016
Liam Tracey Raymont
Liam is a driven and forward-thinking transactional corporate lawyer with a passion for helping public and private companies and investors achieve their immediate and long-term objectives. He takes a holistic approach when advising clients by looking beyond the initial focus of a transaction to provide advice from a broad and thoughtful perspective. Liam values the importance of relationship building in the context of providing legal advice and endeavours to truly get to know his clients in order to better understand their goals and motivations.

Liam is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets Group, where his practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities law, and general corporate and commercial matters. Liam has significant experience advising a range of clients, including public companies, private equity firms and sponsors, startups and widely held private companies on a variety of corporate finance and capital markets matters. His experience includes advising on go-public transactions, private and public M&A, including cross-border M&A, contested transactions and shareholder disputes, securities offerings, continuous disclosure requirements and corporate governance. His clients come from a diverse range of industries, including technology, manufacturing, renewable energy, mining and minerals, biotech and cannabis. 

Liam joined Aird & Berlis as an associate after summering and articling with the firm.

Memberships

  • Ontario Bar Association
  • Canadian Bar Association

Co-Author, "Striking a Deal: How Earnouts Can Bridge the Gap in Mining M&A," Aird & Berlis LLP, Capital Markets Bulletin, September 4, 2025.

Co-Author, "Not So Fast: Ontario Court Weighs In on Earnout Acceleration Clauses," Aird & Berlis LLP, Capital Markets Bulletin, August 19, 2025.

Co-Author, "Closing the Value Gap Using Earnouts in Life Sciences M&A," Aird & Berlis LLP, Capital Markets Bulletin, July 3, 2025.

Co-Author, "Closing the Value Gap: Examining the Utility of Earnout Provisions in M&A Transactions," Aird & Berlis LLP, Capital Markets Bulletin, July 16, 2024.

Co-Author, "Anti-Assignment Provisions and Assignments by ‘Operation of Law’: What Do I Have to Do? What Should I Do?" Aird & Berlis LLP, Capital Markets Bulletin, March 19, 2024.

Co-Author, "Equity Rollovers in Inbound Canadian Cross-Border M&A," Aird & Berlis LLP, Capital Markets Bulletin, October 17, 2023.

Co-Author, "What’s Market in Canadian Public Target M&A: Key Trends and Insights From the ABA Deal Points Study," Aird & Berlis LLP, Capital Markets Bulletin, October 12, 2023.

Co-Author with Portia Biswas, "Using the ATM to Avoid the Teller – The CSA Approves Amendments to Streamline ATM Offerings," Aird & Berlis LLP, Capital Markets Bulletin, July 2020.

Co-Author with Martin Kovnats, "Practical Canadian M&A Advice During the COVID-19 Outbreak," Aird & Berlis LLP, Capital Markets Bulletin, May 2020.

Co-Author with Daniel Everall, “OSC Hits Pause, and Potentially Rewinds, Eco Oro’s Share Issuance,” Lexology, May 2017.

Co-Author, “Canadian Chapter,” Securities Finance, published by Getting the Deal Through, 2017 and 2018.

Co-Author with Daniel Everall, “Securities Regulators Evaluate Private Placements as Defensive Tactics Under the New Take-over Bid Regime,” Corporate Securities and Finance Law Report, February 2017.

Contributor, Canadian Chapter, "The marketing and advertising of legal services," Business Development: A Practical Handbook for Lawyers, published by Globe Law and Business Ltd. for the International Bar Association, 2016.

Contributor and researcher with Martin Kovnats, Jeffrey Merk and Andrew Magnus, "Proposal for Bringing ULCs to Ontario," Corporate Financing, Volume XX, No. 2, October 2015.

Co-Author with Rebecca Kacaba, “Top Six Sources of Government Funding/Grants For Statups in Ontario,” StartupSource Newsletter, November 2015.

Co-Author with Mat Goldstein, “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Bitcoin – But Were Afraid to Ask,” Aird & Berlis LLP, Collateral Matters Newsletter, September 2014.