Overview
Randy McAuley is a partner in a business law group at Goodmans.
His practice focuses on various aspects of corporate and securities law. Randy has acted for public and private entities, reporting issuers, investors and underwriters in capital markets transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions and corporate reorganizations.
Expertise
Featured Work
Randy’s representative work includes acting for:
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in connection with its Rental Construction Financing initiative to finance the construction of rental housing across Canada, and acting as its counsel on over $1.5 billion in committed loans under the program
- RioCan REIT in connection with its public offering of $300,000,000 of senior unsecured debentures
- Raymond James Ltd. as sole bookrunner and underwriter in connection with the $17.5 million equity financing involving a brokered private placement of 833.2 million Subscription Receipts of Vecima Networks Inc. for gross proceeds of C$17.5 million.
- Cormark Securities Inc. as lead underwriter in connection with a “bought deal” short form prospectus offering of 21.1 million common shares of Kraken Robotics Inc. for gross proceeds of $20.1 million.
- Forum Energy Technologies Inc., in connection with its acquisition of Variperm Energy Services for consideration of US$150 million cash and 2 million common shares.
- Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in connection with its US$374 million equity investment in Chorus Aviation Inc.
- Latécoère S.A, a Tier 1 partner of the world's largest aircraft manufacturers, in relation to the acquisition of Avcorp Industries Inc., a Canadian-domiciled publicly traded company that builds major airframe structures for leading aircraft manufacturers, by way of plan of arrangement
- G6 Hospitality in connection with a sale of a portfolio of Motel 6 properties located in Canada
- Training The Street, the world's leading provider of educational resources for financial professionals, in its add-on acquisition of The Marquee Group, Canada's leading provider of financial modeling training and consulting
- Virtus Industries in connection with its acquisition of Arzon Limited
- Interac Corp. in connection with its acquisition of 2Keys Corporation
- VM Hotel Acquisition Corp. in connection with its initial public offering on the TSX
- The Miller McAsphalt Group in the sale of its road construction and bitumen distribution business to Colas Canada for $913 million
- Newmont Mining Corporation in connection with its acquisition from NovaGold Resources of a 50% interest in the Galore Creek Project joint venture with Teck Resources
- Newmont Mining Corporation in connection with its strategic investments in Continental Gold Inc. and Irving Resources Inc.
- RioCan REIT in connection with the sale of its U.S. portfolio located in the Northeastern US and Texas to Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII for US$1.9 billion
- Bioasis Technologies Inc. in connection with numerous equity financing transactions
- NexPoint Hospitality Trust in connection with its initial public offering of trust units
Awards & Recognition
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Best Lawyers in Canada Ones to Watch, Corporate Law 2025
Credentials
Professional Involvement
Randy currently sits on the board of directors of The Musical Stage Company, the largest and leading charitable musical theatre company in Canada. Randy also sits on the board of The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business and Western Mustangs Athletic Alumni. He enjoyed a career as a musician performing with the Juno nominated vocal quartet, The McAuley Boys. Randy was also a top-tier athlete in football and track and field, being named a seven-time all-Canadian in track and filed while at Western University and achieving MVP honours as a football player, spending a brief stint with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.
Credentials
- Western University, J.D., 2015
- Western University, B.HSc, 2012
- Western University, B.A., 2008
Professional Affiliations
- Law Society of Ontario
Call to Bar
- 2016 Ontario
Insights
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Capital Markets
Clarification on Rules Relating to the Removal of Directors by Shareholders
In OneMove Capital Corporation v. Dye & Durham Limited (“OneMove v. D&D”), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the “Court”) held that shareholders may not submit a proposal under section… -
Capital Markets
Ontario Court of Appeal Enforces Contractual Waiver of Statutory Dissent Rights
Ontario’s Court of Appeal concluded in a recent decision that, subject to limited exceptions, shareholders can contractually waive statutory “dissent rights”, which allow shareholders to dissent in… -
Capital Markets
Access Model for prospectuses: Final amendments announced, Law360 Canada
Bill Gorman and Randy McAuley co-authored Access Model for prospectuses: Final amendments announced in Law360 Canada. Excerpt from Access Model for prospectuses: Final amendments… -
Capital Markets
Canadian Securities Administrators Announce Implementation of the Access Model for Prospectuses
On January 11, 2024, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published the final form of amendments to securities legislation to implement an access model (the “Access Model”) for delivery of… -
Capital Markets
CSA and CIRO Publish Summary of Comments and Responses to Short Selling Consultation
On November 16, 2023, the Canadian Securities Administrator (CSA) and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (now, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Association) (CIRO) published a… -
Mergers and Acquisitions
Making Private M&A Transactions Happen in a Challenging Economic Market, Lexpert
Randy McAuley and Julian Di Bartolomeo share insights on the creative solutions dealmakers will need moving forward…
News & Events
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100+ Goodmans lawyers recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada: 2025 Edition
We are delighted to share Goodmans has once again been recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada with 105 lawyers featured across 43 practice areas.Congratulations to Andrew Brodkin… -
Announcing our New Partners in 2023
Goodmans is delighted to announce that the following lawyers have joined our partnership:Julian Di Bartolomeo is a partner in a business law group at Goodmans. He has a broad transactional…