Phone: (604) 691-7448

Fax: (604) 893-2673

Email: amandeep.sandhu@mcmillan.ca

Amandeep Sandhu is a key partner in the firm’s Capital Markets and M&A Group, working out of McMillan’s Vancouver office. Amandeep advises a broad range of companies on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, private placements, public equity and debt financings, and stock exchange listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange. Sandhu also provides detailed advice to companies with respect to securities regulatory compliance, continuous disclosure requirements, and corporate governance matters. Sandhu was seconded to Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP as a Foreign Associate from 2003 to 2004. He is the recipient of an Author of the Year – Company Law Canada award from Lexology (2010). Sandhu is a director of the South Asian Bar of British Columbia and an alternate director of the North American South Asian Bar Association. Sandhu travels to India regularly to build on and enhance relationships and business opportunities.

Phone: (403) 260-7035

Fax: (403) 260-7024

Email: awhyte@osler.com

Practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters. Whyte has extensive corporate finance experience on domestic equity and debt financing and has been involved in a number of cross-border public offerings and private placements. She also has significant mergers and acquisitions experience, involving acquisitions by way of take-over bid, share purchase agreement, plans of arrangement and amalgamation. Member of Securities Advisory Committee (Alberta Securities Commission). Called to the Alberta Bar in 2000.

Phone: (514) 846-2212

Fax: (514) 921-1212

Email: cbelanger@heenan.ca

Partner in the firm’s Business Law Group. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions of mid-market companies, where he acts for buyers and sellers in a variety of transactions having ramifications in Canada and abroad. Over the years, he has led numerous acquisitions of US and foreign companies by Canadian acquirors, as well as leveraged and management buyouts of Québec companies by local and foreign private-equity funds and institutional investors. He has also been involved in several venture capital investments involving various combinations of equity and secured/unsecured debt with Québec companies having foreign subsidiaries and affiliates. He has gained significant expertise in transactions in fields as varied as information technology, health services, building materials, food production and distribution, cleantech and aeronautics. He holds degrees in law and in business administration. Called to the Bar in 1998.

Phone: (416) 869-5403

Fax: (416) 644-9326

Email: cchisick@casselsbrock.com

Partner – copyright and entertainment law. Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Intellectual Property Law (Copyright). Practice includes IP, entertainment law, communications, fashion/apparel and advertising/marketing, with particular expertise in collective administration of copyright. Transactional and litigation counsel to clients in the music, film, television, broadcasting, fashion, theatre, publishing, visual arts, advertising, new media and higher education industries, as well as general business clients with IP needs. Has represented clients before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, the courts of Ontario and BC, and the Copyright Board of Canada. Named one of Lexpert®’s “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40” in 2011. Recognized by Chambers Global, PLC Which Lawyer?, Managing IP and Euromoney Guide to the World’s Leading Media Lawyers. Holds a BV Distinguished™ rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Law Clerk to the Honorable Justice Iacobucci, Supreme Court of Canada (1997-98).

Phone: (416) 865-7243

Fax: (416) 865-7048

Email: cheryl.stacey@mcmillan.ca

Cheryl Stacey is a Partner in the Financial Services Group of McMillan LLP. Her practice focuses on acting for lenders and borrowers in a variety of domestic and cross-border syndicated lending, asset-based lending, margin securities lending, acquisition financing and mezzanine financing. Recent transactions include syndicated loans to finance the acquisition of Canada’s largest commercial-industrial real estate portfolio, asset-based loans to companies in the trucking and manufacturing industries, and project financings for the construction of an office tower and a hotel and condominium complex. Stacey also acted on the McMillan team that represented Export Development Canada in connection with its financing of up to US$3.8 billion to Chrysler Canada Inc. in connection with the restructuring of its Canadian and US operations. Stacey regularly acts for foreign financial institutions and private-equity funds that are lending in Canada. She is the Chair of the Loan Documentation Subcommittee of the American Bar Association.

Phone: (416) 865-7858

Fax: (416) 865-7048

Email: chris.bennett@mcmillan.ca

Chris Bennett is a partner in McMillan LLP’s Projects Group and its Debt Products Group. His practice is focused on financial services with an emphasis on project finance, public private partnerships, structured finance and asset-based lending. Bennett has acted for equity sponsors, arrangers, domestic and international lenders, financial advisors and other participants in connection with many major Canadian infrastructure projects in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, justice, transportation and national defence. Bennett is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law where he teaches a course on the Law and Policy of Public Private Partnerships in Canada. Bennett has been ranked as a leading lawyer in the project finance/public private partnerships area in a number of international legal publications and directories.

Phone: (416) 777-6534

Fax: (416) 863-1716

Email: gauthierc@bennettjones.com

Co-leader of the firm’s capital markets and M&A practice, advises local and international clients on M&A, corporate finance and securities law matters. Assists acquirors, target companies and private-equity funds with the acquisition and sale of public and private entities, initial and secondary public offerings of debt and equity, private placements, joint ventures, reorganizations, restructurings and proxy battles. He is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario and at the York University Faculty of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School. In 2005, he completed a six-month secondment to the Corporate Finance Branch of the Ontario Securities Commission. Ontario Bar, 2002. LLB, 2000, University of British Columbia; BBA, 1995, Trinity Western University.

Phone: (416) 864-9480

Fax: (416) 864-1106

Email: cssmith@thor.ca

Colin Smith is a partner at the Toronto office of Thorsteinssons LLP, Tax Lawyers. Thorsteinssons is Canada’s largest law firm which devotes itself exclusively to taxation matters. Smith’s practice covers all income tax matters relating to domestic and foreign business ventures and administrative appeals to the Canada Revenue Agency. However, Smith has a particular focus on the taxation of private corporations and estate planning for high net-worth clients. Smith has published various articles in the Federated Press’s Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement, the Canadian Tax Foundation’s Tax Highlights, the Canadian Tax Foundation’s Tax For The Owner-Manager and in various Canadian Bar Association and Ontario Bar Association publications. Smith has spoken at numerous conferences, including conferences sponsored by the Ontario Bar Association, the Strategy Institute, the Council for International Tax Education, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.

Phone: (416) 868-3423

Fax: (416) 364-7813

Email: dbatista@fasken.com

Broad transactional practice includes advising boards of directors, special committees and management of clients on strategic, corporate and regulatory matters. Counsel on mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, corporate governance matters, stock exchange requirements and other regulatory matters, including compliance with securities laws and disclosure requirements. Extensive experience in public M&A as well as in private M&A and corporate finance. Acts for small and large national and multinational corporations in transactions of varying sizes. Named a “Rising Star” by Lexpert® in 2011. Former law clerk to Justice Louise Arbour of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Phone: (709) 570-7273

Fax: (709) 579-2647

Email: dokeefe@bensonbuffett.com

A director and shareholder of the firm, O’Keefe has a practice focused on all areas of business law, with a particular emphasis on Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Corporate Reorganizations, Natural Resources and Mining. Considered a leading lawyer in cross-border transactions, O’Keefe’s practice includes both transactional and advisory assignments including a number of projects in the Infrastructure and Telecommunications sectors. In addition to his local business clients, O’Keefe advises clients across Canada, the US and into the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as acting as provincial co-counsel to a Canadian Chartered Bank. O’Keefe is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association, and has been elected as President of the Canadian Home Builders Association, NL for 2013. O’Keefe was recognized in 2011 by Lexpert® as one of Canada’s “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40.” O’Keefe holds two law degrees, one from the National University of Ireland (with Honors) and the second from the University of New Brunswick.

Phone: (403) 260-0326

Fax: (403) 260-0332

Email: dgrout@bdplaw.com

Phone: (604) 646-3325

Fax: (604) 687-7099

Email: dgunasekera@moisolicitors.com

Phone: (604) 608-4560

Fax: (604) 682-7131

Email: dredford@goodmans.ca

Partner in Goodmans’ Vancouver office. Practice focuses on securities law and related corporate law, including capital markets, M&A and other corporate finance transactions. Has represented clients in numerous public and private debt and equity securities offerings, corporate acquisitions, reorganizations and other corporate and commercial transactions. Also advises on securities regulatory reporting and compliance. Works extensively with mineral resource issuers and has developed a broad depth of experience in respect of the requirements of National Instrument 43-101 and the securities law requirements for mineral resource issuers. He has frequently conducted presentations on corporate and securities laws and on mining-related legal matters, including at the China Mining Conference in Tianjin, China, and has been a contributing author for Canadian capital markets in the International Law Office online legal newsletter.

Phone: (403) 267-9438

Fax: (403) 264-5973

Email: dion.legge@nortonrose.com

Dion Legge is a partner in the Calgary office of Norton Rose Canada practicing in the area of tax law. His practice focuses on the income tax aspects of corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, take-overs, debt and equity financings, and the taxation of flow-through vehicles. He also advises on tax-planning issues related to international structures for Canadian-based multinational corporations, on investments by non-residents in Canada, and on structuring cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and financings. Member of the Canadian Tax Foundation and the Canadian Petroleum Tax Society. Cross-border matters in which Legge has acted include advising foreign corporations on Canadian acquisitions and on establishing and financing business operations in Canada.

Phone: (604) 631-3225

Fax: (604) 632-3225

Email: gingborg@fasken.com

Practice focuses on public and private financing (debt and equity), mergers and acquisitions, and public company reporting and compliance, all with a particular emphasis on international clients. Acts for issuers primarily in the mining, energy (including clean energy) and industrial sectors on domestic and international public offerings and private placements, stock exchange listings and many forms of business combinations, complex corporate restructurings and ongoing corporate governance matters. While on secondment to the firm’s office in London, represented investment banks and other financial institutions, multi-national corporations, law firms and accounting firms on the Canadian elements of financings, including cross-border acquisition financings and project financings. In 2011, named a “Rising Star” by ® and one of the “Top 40 Professionals Under 40” by Business in Vancouver.

Phone: (403) 298-1877

Fax: (403) 263-9193

Email: greg.lindsey@gowlings.com

Greg Lindsey is a partner in Gowlings’ Calgary office and is the leader of its Tax Practice Group. He practices in the area of tax law, with a focus on corporate acquisition and reorganization tax planning, including acquisitions, mergers and sales, fund structuring work and high net worth tax planning. Lindsey has also completed his chartered accountant designation.

Phone: (416) 868-3505

Fax: (416) 364-7813

Email: hdo@fasken.com

Business law practice focuses on antitrust/competition and foreign investment law. Extensive experience dealing with the merger notification and review processes under the Competition Act and the Investment Canada Act, as well as other civil and criminal provisions of the Competition Act. Seconded to Canada’s Competition Bureau in 2002. Served as a non-governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network. Recognized by Chambers Global and PLC Which Lawyer? as a leading competition/antitrust lawyer. Named a “Rising Star” by Lexpert® in 2011.

Phone: (416) 869-5534

Fax: (416) 947-0866

Email: jkroft@stikeman.com

Practice focuses on corporate/commercial and corporate finance matters including energy, commodity and mining products and transactions, banking and secured finance including project finance and covering a range of exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivative products. Clientele includes banks and other financial institutions, investment banks and securities dealers, investment, hedge and pension funds and their administrators, governmental and quasi-governmental entities including sovereign wealth funds, industrial companies, mining ventures, trustees, custodians, agents and rating agencies (among others). Writes and speaks frequently. Recognized by Lexpert® as a “Leading Lawyer Under 40,” The Best Lawyers in Canada, The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory. Adjunct Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. Chairs the firm’s involvement with the Osgoode Hall Law School Business Law Clinic and Chair of the Kidney Foundation of Canada’s Ontario Capital Campaign.

Phone: (416) 860-6526/(604)

Fax: (416) 640-3196

Email: jtraub@casselsbrock.com

Partner – securities and mining. Represents both issuers and investment dealers in connection with public and private securities offerings, mergers & acquisitions and other financing transactions. Particular experience in the resource sector and has played an integral role in managing some of the largest and most complex corporate finance and M&A deals in the mining industry in Canada. Regularly advises public companies regarding general corporate and securities law matters including continuous disclosure, corporate governance and Canadian stock exchange issues. Selected as one of the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40” in 2011. Member of the Cassels Brock Women’s Practice Development Committee and co-chairs the Cassels Brock Women in Mining group. Member of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. Called to the Ontario Bar in 2000 and the BC Bar in 2012. Overseeing the firm’s expansion into British Columbia with the opening of a Vancouver office.

Phone: (416) 865-8145

Fax: (416) 865-7380

Email: jemanoilidis@torys.com

Practices corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on M&A and corporate finance. Represents domestic and foreign acquirors, targets, special committees and investment banks in all aspects of M&A (public and private), including hostile take-over bids, strategic review processes, proxy contests, going private transactions, private equity transactions and negotiated acquisitions. Extensive experience in corporate finance representing issuers, underwriters and investors in debt and equity public offerings and private placements. Acted for Viterra in its $6.1-billion acquisition by Glencore; IPIC in its $2.3-billion acquisition of Nova Chemicals; and Husky and Onex in their $2.1-billion sale to OMERS and Berkshire. Former Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Recognized by Chambers & Partners as an up-and-coming lawyer in corporate and M&A and winner of M&A Advisor’s “40 under 40” award. Ontario Bar, 1999. LLB, 1997, Osgoode Hall Law School. BA (With High Distinction), 1994, University of Toronto.

Phone: (416) 863-2785

Fax: (416) 863-2653

Email: john.wilkin@blakes.com

John Wilkin is a partner with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto where he practices in the Securities Group, focusing on domestic and cross-border corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions for public companies. Wilkin regularly advises Canadian and international companies on a wide range of corporate governance and securities law compliance issues and has significant transactional experience in the mining, financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing sectors. Wilkin is recognized for his expertise in working with international issuers listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange, accessing the Canadian public capital markets, and managing multiple exchange listings. This work has included advising Equinox Minerals Limited on all of its public financing transactions, among others. Wilkin was recently recognized in the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40” as one of the leading lawyers in Canada under 40.

Phone: (416) 597-4237

Fax: (416) 979-1234

Email: jonfeldman@goodmans.ca

Partner. Practices corporate/securities law with a focus on M&A. Extensive experience acting for buyers and sellers in a range of industries for private and public companies. Has been involved in a number of contested shareholder matters, including proxy contests representing both dissident shareholders and boards of directors and is also often asked to participate in litigation matters where strategic advice is sought and knowledge of corporate/securities law is required. Formerly worked as an M&A lawyer in New York. Frequent author and lecturer on developments in the Canadian M&A market, the evolving role of shareholder rights plans and the rise of shareholder activism in Canada. Served as an Adjunct Professor at U of T Law School where he taught the course “The Art of the Deal.” Recognized as one of Lexpert®’s “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40” in 2011. Called to the Bars of New York (2000) and Ontario (2005).

Phone: (416) 595-7908

Fax: (416) 595-8695

Email: kkanani@millerthomson.com

Karima Kanani provides counsel to public-sector health industry clients on matters including corporate governance, corporate structuring and reorganizations, program and asset transfers, infrastructure development, procurement of goods and services, joint ventures and other general contractual matters. Prior to beginning her legal career, she worked in the healthcare sector, mediating end-of-life treatment disputes in the Intensive Care Unit at the Toronto Western Hospital, and worked as an assistant to the Deputy Registrar of the Health Services Appeal and Review Board of the Ontario Health Boards Secretariat. In 2011, Kanani was named as one of the “Best of the New Generation” of lawyers, receiving the prestigious Precedent Setter Award from Precedent magazine for excellence and leadership in her practice and the community.

Phone: (416) 367-6731

Fax: (416) 361-7093

Email: kfuller@blg.com

Partner and member of BLG’s Securities and Capital Markets Group. Practices law with an emphasis on the investment management industry. Advises Canadian investment fund managers, dealers and investment advisors on legal issues relating to the establishment and administration of investment funds in Canada and offshore, using traditional and complex cross-border structures. Advises industry participants on registrant regulation and compliance issues. Also advises international investment fund managers and advisors on offering and advising investment funds in Canada. Named one of the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40” in 2011. Member of the Canadian Bar Association . Regularly called on by the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) to participate in various industry committees, such as the fund governance, point of sale, and conference planning committees. Graduate of Queen’s Law School. Called to the Ontario Bar in 2001.

Phone: (403) 266-9088

Fax: (403) 266-9034

Email: kchatwin@stikeman.com

Keith Chatwin is a partner in Stikeman Elliott’s Calgary office whose practice involves a broad array of securities and general corporate transactions, ranging from public and private debt and equity financing to mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring. Chatwin has acted in respect of a number of contested and uncontested take-over situations and a number of corporate and intercorporate arrangements, including trust conversions, spin-outs and asset acquisitions and divestitures. Chatwin also has extensive experience with the formation, listing and governance of investment funds. Called to the Alberta Bar in 1998.

Phone: (403) 267-8224

Fax: (403) 264-5973

Email: Lianne.Tysowski@nortonrose.com

Lianne Tysowski is a partner in the Calgary office of Norton Rose Canada. She practices in the areas of corporate and securities law, focusing on both domestic and cross-border public and private financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate reorganizations. She acts for a variety of capital markets participants in such transactions, including issuers, independent committees of boards of directors and investment dealers. In addition, Tysowski advises issuers and their directors and management on corporate governance matters and ongoing compliance with securities laws and stock exchange requirements. In 2011, she was named one of the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40.”

Phone: (204) 934-2375

Fax: (204) 934-0547

Email: ljs@tdslaw.com

Lisa Stiver is a partner at the firm of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, one of the largest full-service law firms in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her practice is a general transaction-based business law practice that focuses on government procurement and technology law, which involves negotiating and structuring transactions with Canadian and US entities, as well as the purchase and financing of commercial real property for private entities and public institutions. Stiver is an instructor in the Business Transactions course at the University of Manitoba Law School, and is a facilitator presenter, and author of written materials for the Centre for Professional Legal Education Program courses administered by the Law Society of Manitoba. She has lectured for the Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development program and The Canadian Institute’s Intensive Legal Training courses, and was recently named one of the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40” in 2011.

Phone: (416) 862-4908

Fax: (416) 862-6666

Email: mwasserman@osler.com

Practices commercial law with an emphasis on corporate recapitalizations, reorganizations and restructurings and related acquisitions, divestitures, financings and governance matters. He has acted in many complex cross-border cases for major debtor corporations, bondholders, equity sponsors, monitors and acquirors. Wasserman also regularly provides strategic advice and risk analysis on structuring of corporate and lending transactions. Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 2001.

Phone: (604) 640-4143

Fax: (604) 622-5843

Email: mlewis@blg.com

Partner and Practice Group Leader of BLG’s Vancouver Commercial Real Estate Group. Has worked on numerous projects, including urban mixed-use and resort (golf/ski) developments. Extensive experience working on anchor retail and seniors’ housing developments; structuring co-ownership, JV and partnership relationships for real estate development projects; representing private-capital lenders on mezzanine, equity and profit participation loans; and working on industrial sale and leaseback transactions. Created and implemented BC’s first deposit insurance program. Member of the CBA’s Real Property subsection, the Urban Development Institute (UDI) and the Mortgage Investment Association of BC. Frequent presenter on real estate topics at programs for BC CLE, CBA (Real Property subsection), Insight Information and UDI. Chair of the CBA’s BC Land Title Office Liaison Committee. Vice-chair of UDI’s Real Estate Legal Issues Committee. Contributing author for BC CLE’s Real Estate Development Practice Manual and Mortgages Practice Manual. Called to the BC Bar in 1997.

Phone: (514) 877-3087

Fax: (514) 871-8977

Email: mquenneville@lavery.ca

Called to the Québec Bar in 2000, Mathieu Quenneville is a Partner at Lavery, de Billy where he practices in the areas of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources. Throughout his years of practice, he has developed considerable expertise in administrative, constitutional, environmental and land-use planning law. Acting as both legal counsel and litigator, he has been involved in a number of significant administrative and constitutional cases. As such, Quenneville has represented clients before various judicial courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. In addition, Quenneville frequently publishes articles on land-use planning law and constitutional law.

Phone: (506) 634-6416

Fax: (506) 634-3573

Email: nleard@stewartmckelvey.com

Phone: (604) 631-9125

Fax: (604) 669-1620

Email: ptolensky@lawsonlundell.com

Peter Tolensky chairs Lawson Lundell’s Commercial Real Estate and Development Group. His clients include pension funds, utility companies and private entities to whom he provides advice on a variety of real estate and corporate structuring matters for all types of projects. He also negotiates a significant volume of retail, office and industrial leases for landlords and tenants. Tolensky was named one of the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40” in 2011 and has been recognized by Chambers Global, The Best Lawyers in Canada and PLC Which Lawyer? for his real estate practice. He is also currently involved with the Canadian Friends of Hebrew University (Vancouver Chapter), UBC Law School Faculty Exchange Program and is a past chair of the Canadian Bar Association Vancouver Real Property subsection. Tolensky was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 2000.

Phone: (416) 367-7483

Fax: (416) 863-0871

Email: rfridman@dwpv.com

Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate/Commercial, Capital Markets and Mining practices. Has a broad range of experience in all aspects of public M&A, including strategic review processes, hostile take-over bids and negotiated merger transactions. Works with an international group of clients on diverse mining-related matters including offtake transactions and joint-venture arrangements. Also represents clients in connection with public offerings of debt and equity securities (representing both issuers and underwriters), private placements, going-private transactions and corporate reorganizations. Combines legal experience with prior management consulting experience to act as counsel and provide strategic and legal advice to management and directors of public corporations as well as start-ups. Named one of the 2011 Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40.” LLB and LLM, University of Ottawa and LLM (US Corporate Law), New York University. Clerked with the Honorable Justice Charles D. Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998. Called to the Bars in Québec (1997), New York (2000) and Ontario (2002).

Phone: (780) 428-8310

Fax: (780) 421-8820

Email: rkirby@felesky.com

Richard W. Kirby’s practice is restricted to taxation matters with an emphasis on corporate and personal tax planning for entrepreneurs; his practice also includes advising on international and First Nation income tax issues. Richard is past Chair of the Canadian Bar Association Taxation Specialists Section (Alberta North) and is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation. Kirby is a regular lecturer for numerous professional bodies and has authored and co-authored many articles and core instruction manuals for various professional bodies. Kirby is also active in his community and spends time volunteering and fundraising for many charitable and non-profit organizations.

Phone: (514) 397-2408

Fax: (514) 397-3222

Email: rcarelli@stikeman.com

Partner and member of the Corporate Commercial Group. He is also a member of the Montréal office’s Students and Stagiaires Committee. His practice is focused primarily in the areas of securities, corporate finance and public and private mergers and acquisitions. Assignments have included counsel to issuers and underwriters in the context of public offerings and private placements in Canada and abroad; counsel to public corporations, securities dealers and investment advisors in connection with securities matters, including restructurings and investment funds and derivatives; counsel to purchasers, sellers, boards of directors, bankers, and financial advisors in connection with Canadian and international public mergers and acquisitions; counsel in connection with Canadian and international private mergers and acquisitions; and counsel to public corporations on corporate governance matters. Recognized by Lexpert®’s “Rising Stars” as one of the “Leading Lawyers Under 40” in Canada in 2011. Member of the Canadian Bar Association. Québec Bar (2000).

Phone: (416) 862-4305

Fax: (416) 862-7661

Email: robert.mason@gowlings.com

Robert Mason is a partner in the business law department at Gowlings’ Toronto office, co-chair of the Firm’s Mining Group and chair of Gowlings’ Investment Dealer initiative. Mason represents issuers and underwriters on corporate finance transactions and M&A mandates, with a particular emphasis on mining and other natural resource sectors. He has extensive international experience, having recently led offerings by issuers located in South Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada with projects throughout the world. Mason was recognized as one of the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40,” 2011.

Phone: (514) 982-5080

Fax: (514) 982-4099

Email: sebastien.vilder@blakes.com

Sébastien Vilder is a Partner in the Financial Services Group and the regional practice leader for this group. Vilder specializes in bank financing, project financing and asset-based financing. He assists clients in bank and project financings in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia as well as in public-private partnership, energy and infrastructure projects, aircraft leasing and financing. Vilder is a member of organizations such as the Barreau du Québec, the Canadian Bar Association, the Bar of the State of New York, the International Bar Association and the Institute for Public-Private Partnerships. Vilder is recognized by Law Business Research’s The International Who’s Who of Project Finance Lawyers, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal: Canada as a leading project finance lawyer. He is also recognized in Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers and IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms.

Phone: (416) 597-4217

Fax: (416) 979-1234

Email: smcgrath@goodmans.ca

Shevaun McGrath is a partner in the Securities and Corporate Law Group at Goodmans. Her practice focuses on M&A, private equity and corporate finance and involves advising domestic and foreign public and private companies on mergers, acquisitions and debt and equity offerings. McGrath advised Sirius Canada, in its $520-million merger with Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings; Amdocs Limited, in its $211-million acquisition of Bridgewater Systems Corporation; OMERS Private Equity in a US$7.75-billion acquisition with Apax Partners of Thomson Learning Higher Education Assets and in a $240-million acquisition of Golf Town Income Fund. She also led the asset securitization team advising the Pan-Canadian Third Party ABCP Investors Committee in the successful restructuring of the $32-billion non-bank sponsored ABCP market in Canada. Recognized as one of the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40” in 2011. Called to the Bars of Ontario (2000) and New York (2001).

Phone: (403) 206-5529

Fax: (403) 260-3501

Email: sgill@mccarthy.ca

Phone: (416) 865-7674

Fax: (416) 865-7380

Email: tzverina@torys.com

Tom Zverina’s practice focuses on secured lending and structured finance, representing both lenders and borrowers in complex domestic and international transactions. Zverina’s practice encompasses a broad range of lending work, including operating and term credit facilities, asset-backed loans, project finance and public and private offerings of debt securities. Ontario Bar, 2001. LLB, 1999, Queen’s University. BA, 1994, Simon Fraser University.

Phone: (604) 643-6417

Fax: (604) 605-3510

Email: whe@davis.ca

William He is a partner based in Davis LLP’s Vancouver office. He practices in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance and China Practice Groups. Prior to joining Davis, he worked as a legal analyst at a large commercial insurance brokerage firm, and at a law-related position at the head office of a top-tier bank in China. Many of his transactions have an international dimension. For example, He has led numerous complicated M&A transactions for Chinese state-owned enterprises, banks and private enterprises relating to their businesses in North America, Asia and Europe. Qualified to practice in Canada (British Columbia and Ontario) and the United States (New York and Massachusetts), and with legal education and a National Lawyer’s Qualification Certificate from China, He has unparalleled legal and language expertise that gives his clients a distinct advantage. He was recognized as one of the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40” in 2011.

Phone: (416) 863-4604

Fax: (416) 863-4592

Email: zahra.nurmohamed@fmc-law.com

Zahra Nurmohamed was called to the Ontario Bar in 2001 and her practice focuses on Canadian and international corporate tax matters involving the structuring of mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and domestic and cross-border financings. Nurmohamed also advises on the income tax aspects of financings for junior mining companies. In 2011, Nurmohamed was recognized as one of the Lexpert® “Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers under 40.” Nurmohamed has editorial responsibilities with three tax publications and has taught at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law and the Bar Admission Course. Nurmohamed is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation, the International Fiscal Association and the Ontario Bar Association, Tax Law Section.