Konata Lake

Konata is Partner of Torys LLP. Konata’s practice focuses on corporate law, with a focus on investments and mergers and acquisitions. Konata advises strategic and financial parties in all aspects of investing and divestiture transactions, including shareholders arrangements, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, majority and minority equity investments, co-investments and take private transactions. Konata also advises financial institutions, governments and Canadian pension funds on complex strategic commercial arrangements and transactions.

In addition to Canadian Club Toronto, Konata serves on the board of governors of York University, where he sits on the Investments Committee and the Finance and Audit Committee.

Konata is a recipient of the 2019 Lexpert Rising Stars—Canada’s Leading Lawyers Under 40 Award.

Konata holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Masters of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University and a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School.