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Adam Rock
Partner • (he/him)
Adam advises financial sponsors and high-growth companies on complex, strategically significant corporate matters, including minority investments, equity and equity-linked financings, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He focuses on the energy and technology sectors.
Education & Qualifications
- Alberta Bar (2006)
- JD (Toronto, 2005)
Languages
More about me
- Private equity sponsor on the formation of its US$100-million lower-middle-market buyout fund
- Energy company on its joint venture with a nuclear research organization to develop synthetic fuels facilities in British Columbia, Ontario and Québec
- Public technology company (as special counsel) on its US$20-million cross-border acquisition of a medical device startup
- Professional services firm on its US$110-million cross-border acquisition by a UK-based strategic buyer
- Alternative asset manager on its structured debt investment in a public metals and mining company
- Australian technology company on the cross-border sale of substantially all its assets to a public strategic buyer
- Activist investor on its shareholder engagement and settlement agreement with a public energy company
- Activist investor on its acquisition of a minority stake in, and shareholder engagement with, a public metals and mining company
- Strategic investor on its $45-million PIPE investment in a public energy company
- Public technology company on its out-of-court debt refinancing and the reorganization of its domestic and international subsidiaries
- Energy company on the $45-million carve-out sale of its Canadian biofuels business
- Underwriter on the $30-million private placement of equity securities by a metals and mining company
- Energy company on its US$150-million capital commitment from a private equity sponsor and concurrent domestication into the United States
- Venture capital investor on its minority investments in numerous software and services companies
- U.S. private equity sponsor on its $150-million cross-border equity investment in a Canadian transportation company
- Technology company on its $110-million qualifying transaction
- Alternative asset manager on the formation of its fund of funds and hedge funds
- Audit Committee Chair, Calhome Properties Ltd. (O/A Calgary Housing)
- Member, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, MLT Aikins LLP
- Executive Member, Business Law, Canadian Bar Association
- Executive Member, Securities Law, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Calgary Bar Association
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Recognized in the 2026 (and since 2025) edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Law)
• Presenter, “Proxy Contests: The Basics,” Alberta Securities Law Section, Canadian Bar Association (2025)
• Presenter, “Introduction to Securities Law,” Alberta Business Law Section, Canadian Bar Association (2025)


