Robert Veitch

Rob is a business lawyer who provides clients with practical and strategic legal advice. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities and general corporate law.

Having advised on a variety of both public and private mergers and acquisitions, Rob has a solid foundation of knowledge in this area, including significant cross-border experience. Rob’s M&A transaction experience includes share purchases, plans of arrangement, reverse take overs, take over bids, asset acquisitions, spin-outs and royalty transactions.

In the area of securities law, Rob has assisted clients with financings completed through initial public offerings, secondary offerings, private placements of various types of equity and debt securities and VC rounds for early stage companies. In addition, Rob regularly advises clients on stock exchange matters and continuous disclosure and other securities commission rules and policies. Rob also advises clients on corporate governance matters.

Rob also enjoys working with entrepreneurs while they form and grow their businesses. More specifically, Rob has assisted entrepreneurs with shareholders agreements, private financings as well as royalty, licensing and various other types of commercial agreements.

Year of Call

2012

Legal Recognition

•Lexpert Leading Lawyers in Canada (2026)
•The Best Lawyers in Canada (2026)
•Lexpert Leading Lawyer under 40 Rising Star (2023)
•The Best Lawyers in Global Business (2022)

In the News

Transactions

Farris Represents DeFi Technologies on US$100 Million Offering

October 15, 2025

Recognition

61 Farris Lawyers Recognized in the 2026 Best Lawyers in Canada Directory

September 4, 2025

Recognition

28 Farris Lawyers Named in the 2025 Lexpert Directory

March 11, 2025