Firuz Rahimi
Firuz Rahimi is a corporate and M&A lawyer whose practice focuses on private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and other complex corporate matters.
Firuz advises private equity sponsors, strategic purchasers, founders and privately held companies on acquisitions, divestitures, investments and other strategic transactions. He has experience across the full lifecycle of a transaction, including structuring and negotiating purchase agreements, coordinating transaction processes and due diligence and advising on acquisition financing, closing and post-closing matters. Firuz regularly takes a leading role in executing transactions, coordinating deal teams and working with clients and their other professional advisers from initial structuring through closing.
His experience spans transactions ranging from founder-led and lower-middle-market acquisitions to complex transactions involving businesses with operations across Canada and the United States. Firuz has advised clients across a range of industries including industrial and manufacturing businesses, technology, transportation and logistics, professional services and other business services.
Before joining MDS, Firuz practiced in the Calgary and New York offices of a leading Canadian national law firm, where he worked on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and fund investments. He also completed a secondment with the legal group of a major Canadian pension fund manager, providing him with additional perspective on transactions from the client and investment side.
Firuz has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada for Corporate Law.
education & accreditation
Law Society of British Columbia (2024)
Law Society of Ontario (2021)
Law Society of Alberta (2019)
Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan (Law Clerk, 2018-2019)
University of Saskatchewan (J.D., with great distinction, 2018)
University of Saskatchewan (B.A., with great distinction, 2015)
areas of expertise
Business Law
Mergers & Acquisitions
experience
- The Sellers in connection with the acquisition of the TyCrop and Propell group of companies by VoltaGrid LLC
- Central Builders Supply in its acquisition of Lumberworld
- Hodder Tugboat Co. Ltd. in its acquisition of the chip and hog towing division of Seaspan ULC
- The Sellers in connection with the acquisition of Sam’s Garage Doors Ltd. by ASSA ABLOY Door Systems
- The management team of Cascadia Windows & Doors in connection with an investment into Cascadia by MKB Partners
- The Sellers in connection with the acquisition of Optis Consulting by Shore Capital Partners
- A search fund in connection with its acquisition of a plastic injection molding services company
- The Sellers in connection with the acquisition of Eigen Payments by Shift4, a global payments technology company
- A Quebec private equity firm in its acquisition of a majority interest in a Canadian insurance company
- A joint venture between 2 multinational food-processing companies in a take-private acquisition of a TSX-listed plant-based meat producer
- A US private equity firm in its acquisition of a Quebec-based clothing manufacturer
- A US private equity firm in its sale of a tillage and crop nutrition application equipment manufacturer
- A global uranium company in its strategic partnership with a renewable energy focused fund in their acquisition of a global energy company
- A US private equity firm in its purchase of a distribution and storage company in Quebec
- A European consulting company in its strategic acquisitions of multiple targets throughout Canada
- Fund managers with AUM between $22 – $70 billion in multiple co-investments and primary investments