John Clifford

Partner, McMillan LLP

John is a partner of McMillan LLP (Toronto, Canada), where he focuses his practice on M&A transactions. He has extensive experience advising a diverse group of clients on domestic and cross-border acquisitions and divestitures and the legal requirements for establishing new businesses in Canada. For seven years, John chaired a working group of Canadian M&A deal lawyers that studied and developed reports for the American Bar Association’s M&A Committee on trends in deal terms used in Canadian private company acquisitions.  Who’s Who Legal and other directories rank John as a leading M&A lawyer, and report that  John is “top notch by all accounts”, “very client focused” and “always delivers”.