Rosenzweig & Company - Advisory Board

ADVISORY BOARD

STEPHEN PINCUS

Stephen Pincus is a Partner at Goodmans LLP, where he is on the Executive Committee, heads a Business Law Group of over 60 lawyers and staff, and is Chair of the REITs and Income Securities Practice.

He is well known for leading the legal team on many landmark transactions. Examples include Canada’s largest equity offering in the past decade, first venture capital fund to specialize in digital technology and new media, first healthcare REIT, largest ever income securities IPO, first mutually initiated REIT merger, first major cross-border lending program by a foreign bank, first cross-border REIT, first cross-border income fund and first offering of income participating securities.

Stephen is recognised as one of Canada’s leading lawyers by Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers, Best Lawyers in Canada, Euromoney’s Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers, Law Business Research’s Who’s Who International of Capital Markets Lawyers, The IFLR 1000 and other legal publications.

Stephen grew up in South Africa, where he earned a B.A. (Honors) in English & Philosophy while heading an annual summer camp of about 1,500 participants. After immigrating to Canada, he obtained an M.B.A. from the Schulich School of Business and an LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School (where he won the Gold Medal), while working as the Administrator of a private elementary school and the Director of a residential summer camp.

Stephen was founding Chairman and is currently a director of the Canada South Africa Chamber of Business. He was also a director and Chair of the Governance Committee of the Canadian Association of Income Funds. He lectured for a number of years at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business, with responsibility for the M.B.A./ LL.B. program seminar. He is an author of The Canadian REIT Handbook.