John Ball is a founding Partner of the Firm and practices in our Business Services Law Group. The lawyers in this group help business owners, managers, leaders, partnerships and family held enterprises deal with the expected and the unexpected. Apart from supporting ongoing business needs, we have particular expertise in: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Succession Planning & Implementation; Business Development and Growth; Acting as interim in-house counsel; Trade Mark and Copyright & brand protection. For more information on the practice group, click here»

Focus of Practice

John Ball serves a broad and active business client base, assisting with strategic legal advice and business guidance garnered over four decades of practice. He deals with issues influencing growth and risk exposure as well as business transactions and corporate governance. For a number of clients John functions effectively as their legal management resource, working as part of the organizations' management and decision-making process in planning and day to day operations. For others he acts as a business sounding board.

Represents & Advises

• Principally privately held companies;
Public companies on compliance, governance and exempt transactions;

Engagements Include

• Directors liability and corporate governance
• Mergers, acquisitions, and reorganization;
• Shareholder agreements and disputes;
• Mitigating risk;
• Corporate restructurings and financial restructurings;
• Business succession;
• Acquisitions and dispositions of assets and businesses;
• Commercial relationships and ventures;
• Financings Debt, private equity exempt transactions

Admissions and Affiliations

• Called to the Bar of Ontario 1971
• Called to the Bar of Nova Scotia 1970
• Law Society of Upper Canada - Instructor, Business Law, the Bar Admissions Course
• The Trillium Health Centre - Past Chairman of the Board of Directors

Education

• B.A. - Mount Allison University
• B.Ed. - Mount Allison University
• LL.B. - Dalhousie University
• ICD.D Designation Inaugural Class- the ICD Corporate governance and Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
• Financial Literacy Program ICD and Joseph L. Rotman School of Management