Catherine Beagan Flood
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Catherine Beagan Flood has a specialized practice in litigating constitutional and administrative law cases and providing advice on constitutional, privacy and freedom of information issues, in addition to practising general civil and commercial litigation.
She has argued before all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the Ontario Court of Appeal. She has been counsel on numerous constitutional and administrative law cases dealing with issues such as the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the division of powers, Parliamentary privilege, judicial independence, freedom of information and human rights. Beagan Flood has also prepared extensive legal opinions on issues such as compliance with privacy legislation, constitutional conventions, the Charter, and the division of powers in the Canadian Constitution.
She is also a member of the adjunct faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School, where she has been teaching a specialized seminar on privacy and freedom of information since 2000.
Before joining Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Beagan Flood graduated as gold medallist from Osgoode Hall Law School. She was law clerk to the Right Honourable Antonio Lamer, chief justice of Canada from 1997-1998. After completing her clerkship, she received an LLM degree from Harvard Law School, where she studied constitutional, administrative and media law as a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow and Canada-US Fulbright scholar.
Paul A. Beauregard
Bell Canada – Law Department
Paul Beauregard was front and centre in BCE's strategic review process which resulted in an announced sale for an all-cash transaction value at $51.8 billion (including debt, preferred equity and minority interests) — the largest sale transaction and largest LBO in Canadian history. He was the lead lawyer responsible for all aspects of BCE's refinancing and partial disposition of Bell Globemedia, the value of BCE's stake being $1.5 billion. A key aspect of the monetization was the negotiation of ongoing rights to Globemedia's content for distribution on BCE's new media platforms.
Previously, Beauregard was responsible for many of Bell Canada's largest and most complex commercial transactions (including managing relationships for several of Bell's largest enterprise customers in the banking and insurance sectors). He was the lead lawyer responsible for the large-scale VoIP outsourcing arrangement.
His nominator commented that Beauregard understands that achieving “business objectives is more than merely translating [them] into concrete legal deliverables; rather, it is the process of helping shape the business objectives in the first instance.”
Beauregard's move from private practice to in-house counsel was largely driven by the desire to move closer to the business units and the decision-making process. He has acted as a mentor to junior lawyers both in private practice and as in-house counsel.
France Margaret Bélanger
Stikeman Elliott LLP
France Bélanger is a partner in the Montreal office of Stikeman Elliott LLP. She practises mainly in the fields of securities and mergers and acquisitions of public and private corporations.
She was a member of the firm's team that acted for Air Canada in connection with its 2004 restructuring. More specifically, she participated in the negotiation and implementation of the ACE Aviation rights offering and the private placement by Cerberus Capital Management as well as in the development and implementation of the Air Canada plan of arrangement.
Previously, she acted for ACE Aviation in connection with its debt and equity offerings, and for Aeroplan Income Fund and for Jazz Air Income Fund with respect to their initial public offering.
More recently, she represented the Gillett Entertainment Group in a refinancing operation, leading the negotiations with the lending consortium, the secured creditors and the NHL (June 2006). In the summer of 2006, she represented a Canadian investor in a private equity consortium for the acquisition of Varig, in Brazil. She worked with Ace Aviation in its acquisition of an 80 per cent interest in Aeroman, an aeroplane maintenance, repair and overhaul business based in El Salvador (February 2007). Since the fall of 2006, Bélanger has also worked with Ace Aviation in connection with the monetization of its MRO subsidiary, ACTS LP. She lead the legal team in the organization of the auction process, as well as in the successful negotiation of the agreements with the different bidders and, ultimately, with the winning bidders, KKR Private Equity Investors, LP and Sageview Capital, LLC, in the acquisition of a 70 per cent interest in ACTS LP (June 2007).
Derek J. Bell
Bennett Jones LLP
Derek Bell's practice is focused on domestic and international commercial litigation, securities litigation, class actions, professional negligence litigation, administrative/constitutional law, and insolvencies and receiverships. He represents interests from a variety of industries and business sectors, including manufacturers, accounting firms, retail businesses and franchisors. Bell participates in and appears on motions, applications and appeals at all levels of court and administrative tribunals in Ontario, British Columbia, the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. In Stelco Inc. (Re.) O.J. No. 2533 (C.A.), he was co-counsel on a successful claim of approximately $100 million in intra-bondholder subordination dispute, and on the successful appeal from it.
Within Bennett Jones LLP's litigation department, his nominator writes, Bell is “a critical component…a valuable asset and one of the driving forces and creative minds leading our representation of major clients in significant complex litigation.”
After law school, Bell clerked with the Honourable Justice Charles D. Gonthier at the Supreme Court of Canada. He holds an MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
Andrew Brodkin
Goodmans LLP
Andrew Brodkin is a partner and the head of Goodmans LLP's litigation department. Having joined the firm in 1995, he focuses on commercial and intellectual property litigation.
He frequently appears before the Federal Court of Canada and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice representing pharmaceutical clients regarding intellectual property and trademark matters. He also has an active commercial litigation practice focusing on employment matters, insurance, insolvency proceedings and banking law.
Brodkin has acted as co-counsel to the National Hockey League Officials' Association in the negotiation of its collective agreement with the National Hockey League. Over the past year, Brodkin was successful in the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal in a major patent dispute involving the drug, Viagra (Pfizer v. Apotex).
Brodkin is recognized in The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory for IP Litigation and as one of the top 25 Canadian patent lawyers by Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Experts.
John J. Burghardt
Felesky Flynn LLP
John Burghardt's nominator touted his “brilliant mind, detailed knowledge of the general law and income tax legislation in particular, and his creativity…once a client becomes exposed to [his] abilities, they do not seek legal tax advice elsewhere.”
Burghardt has worked (typically as lead or co-lead tax advisor) on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, financings and reorganizations that typically involve hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. Some of these transactions have been among the largest in Canadian public market history, including the butterfly reorganization of Canadian Pacific into five new publicly traded corporations and the merger of PanCanadian Corporation and Alberta Energy to form EnCana Corporation.
In response to the Rising Stars criterion of “business acumen,” his nominator writes: “In many cases, the idea for a business transaction is initiated through [Burghardt's] proactive thinking, or is meaningfully modified and improved by his creativity and terrific problem solving skills.”
Burghardt's practice covers a wide range from corporate merger and de-merger transactions to owner-manager tax planning, and dispute resolution, with additional focus on resource taxation and international corporate finance.
Mary I. A. Buttery
Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
Mary Buttery specializes in the area of commercial insolvency representing financial institutions, debtors and creditors, receivers and trustees in matters related to debt restructuring, corporate reorganizations, loan workouts, fraudulent preference actions, bankruptcy and receiverships. In addition, she practises general commercial litigation, and has expertise in the enforcement of foreign judgments.
She has worked on several complex files, including:
i) A & B Sound on which she was counsel for the Monitor in the CCAA proceedings of this large retailer;
ii) Doman Industries, on which she was counsel for the company in CCAA proceedings;
iii) James Blair Down, on which she was counsel for the Interim Receiver in alleged international victim economic recovery;
iv) Exchange Bank and Trust, on which she was counsel for the Receiver with respect to $20M frozen funds in respect of offshore accounts;
v) Xillix Technologies Corp., on which she was counsel for the company in CCAA proceedings; and
vi) Brookdale International Systems, Inc., again as counsel for the company in CCAA proceedings.
Jane E. Caskey
Ogilvy Renault LLP
Jane Caskey practises in the area of intellectual property law including patent and trade-mark infringement litigation, trade-mark prosecution and opposition work, licensing, injunctions and commercial litigation. She has extensive experience as an advocate at both the trial and appellate levels on applications and motions, as well as at trial, and appears regularly before the Federal Court of Canada and the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario.
Caskey is also involved in resolving client issues through negotiation/alternative dispute resolution and has broad experience as an advocate on arbitrations, mediations and before administrative tribunals.
Since its commencement in 2002, on behalf of Glaxo, Caskey has led the litigation team on The Wellcome Foundation Limited and Glaxo Wellcone Inc. v. Apotex Inc. and Novopharm Ltd. She has daily responsibility for the team, including on procedure, strategy, pleadings before the court, and client communications.
She is Toronto chair of Ogilvy Renault LLP's intellectual property group. She is also a member of the Toronto Intellectual Property Group. She also sits on the boards of directors of various organizations, such as the Huron University College Corporation, and from 2002-2007, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
Carlos A. Cerqueira
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Carlos Cerqueira is a partner in the business group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. He trained as a student and associate in the Toronto office before spending the period from June 2004 to August 2007 working out of the firm's London, England office. Having returned to Toronto, Cerqueira's practice continues to focus on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. He also provides legal advice relating to special projects, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and certain day-to-day commercial matters for public and private corporate clients.
He has been involved in a number of high-profile mergers, including the combination of Interbrew and AmBev to create InBev, the merger of Vivendi, Seagram and Canal+ to create Vivendi Universal, the acquisition by Weyerhaeuser of MacMillan Bloedel, and the sale of Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club to Rogers Communications. More recently, he has provided advice in connection with the acquisition by Vodafone of the assets of Telesystems International Wireless, the acquisition by Lonmin of Southern Platinum, and the unification of Royal Dutch and Shell Transport and Trading under a single parent company, Royal Dutch Shell.
John J. Ciardullo
Stikeman Elliott LLP
John Ciardullo is a partner in the Toronto office of Stikeman Elliott LLP. He practises corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on public mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. His practice consists of advising issuers, boards of directors, special committees and other transaction participants on matters such as the structuring of M&A transactions, the negotiation of key transaction documentation, directors' fiduciary duties, and other general governance and compliance matters.
Ciardullo has significant experience with proxy contests and contested shareholder meetings, in which context he has represented both activist shareholders and target corporations, and represents issuers and underwriters in a wide range of corporate finance transactions.
Ciardullo's recent experience, writes his nominator, “boasts an impressive array of marquee transactions including:”
i) Essar Steel's acquisition of Algoma Steel;
ii) Companhia Vale do Rio Doce's take-over bid for Inco Limited;
iii) the acquisition of Berna Gold Corp. by Kinross Gold;
iv) the contested control transaction involving Adastra Minerals Inc. and First Quantum Minerals Ltd.;
v) Gold Fields Ltd.'s acquisition of Bolivar Gold Corp. and the accompanying securities litigation involving Scion Capital LLC.
Michael W. Colborne
Thorsteinssons LLP
Michael Colborne is a partner in the Toronto office of Thorsteinssons LLP where he practises corporate and international tax planning, tax representation and litigation.
He received a LLM (US tax) from New York University, and was called to the Bar in Ontario and British Columbia.
His practice focuses on corporate and international tax planning, regularly advising Canadian and foreign-based multi-national groups on a variety of matters, including inbound and outbound investment and financing, divestitures, and natural resource taxation. In particular, Colborne has extensive experience structuring mining investment in Canada, the United States, Australia, and numerous countries in South America, Africa and Scandinavia.
Colborne also has considerable experience in handling tax controversy (including transfer pricing disputes) and litigation issues faced by multi-national groups. He has appeared in the superior courts of British Columbia and Ontario, the Tax Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada and has assisted before the Revenue Tribunal of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Robert J.C. Deane
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Robert Deane is a partner in the Vancouver office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. He practises in the areas of commercial litigation (including domestic and international commercial arbitration), general appellate litigation, privacy law, intellectual property litigation and advertising/competition law. He is experienced in all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
In 2006 and 2007, Deane has been engaged as one of the counsel involved in a dispute arising out of the sale of two power plants in British Columbia, as well as having been involved in arbitration proceedings under the Domestic Arbitration Rules of the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration centre arising from numerous disputes between a forest tenure-holder and its primary contractor. He has also served as Tribunal Secretary to a three-member Tribunal appointed under the London Court of International Arbitration Rules to determine a US$700 million dispute, an arbitration that was seated in London, England.
Deane is the Vancouver regional leader of the commercial arbitration focus group, the privacy and access to information focus group, and the advertising law focus group. He is also one of his firm's two privacy officers, with primary responsibility for Western Canada.
After law school, Deane was a law clerk to the Honourable Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada, as she then was.
Myron B. Dzulynsky
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Myron Dzulynsky is a partner and the leader of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP's private equity national practices group. His practice encompasses various aspects of business law, including private and public corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, structuring and restructuring and ongoing commercial matters. He has advised clients in various sectors, including the manufacturing, financial services, retail, technology, real estate, energy and infrastructure sectors. Over the past few years, he has focused his practice on the energy, infrastructure and real estate sectors.
He has advised clients on the structuring, use, financing, reorganization and ongoing commercial matters involving trusts (private and public) and partnerships (in particular limited partnerships), including tiered partnerships, trust on partnership, mixed partnership and corporation, partnerships and trusts as special purpose vehicles, and use of partnerships for tax planning or other specified purposes.
Some of the recent transactions with which Dzulynsky has been involved include representing Macquarie North America in connection with the formation of Macquarie Essential Assets Partnership, a private equity fund focusing on infrastructure assets; representing Macquarie Essential Assets Partnership on various matters, including the acquisition of AltaLink L.P., the operator of a major transmission utility in Alberta, the acquisition of an interest Michigan Electricity Transmission Company LLC, the operator of a major electricity transmission utility in the State of Michigan, the construction of a natural gas electricity generation plant in Western Canada, the refurbishment of the Sea to Sky highway between Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, and in respect of transactions in the electricity and gas distribution sectors in Canada and the United States.
Ron Ezekiel
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Ron Ezekial is a partner with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP's energy, environmental and regulatory practice group. His practice focuses on regulatory compliance issues and business transactions for industrial, mining and resource companies, independent power producers and energy utilities.
Ezekial has extensive expertise with permitting issues, including environmental assessments, fisheries authorizations, Crown tenures, water licenses and impact benefit agreements with First Nations.
A regular part of Ezekial's practice involves climate change related issues, including public policy analysis and emissions trading work. His practice also covers other environmental issues, including transportation of dangerous goods, contaminated sites, product stewardship and mine reclamation.
Ezekial acted as counsel before the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) on behalf of the British Columbia Transmission Corporation in its application for approval of an open access transmission tariff. (In the matter of British Columbia Transmission Corporation Application for an Open Access Transmission Tariff, June 20, 2005, Order G-58-05).
Colin Feasby
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Colin Feasby is a partner in the litigation department of Osler, Hoskin Harcourt LLP's Calgary office. He represents clients in various industries including oil and gas, petrochemicals, electricity and financial services. He has represented clients in corporate litigation, securities litigation, contract disputes, and franchise litigation. Feasby has represented clients before trial and appellate courts and has represented clients in arbitrations governed by the rules of the American Arbitration Association, ADR Institute of Canada, and British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre.
He was lead counsel for PetroKazakhstan Inc. in a successful trial and pending appeal concerning claims arising from the termination of stock options, and for Murphy Oil Canada on several claims relating to allegedly improper pipeline charges.
Feasby has written articles that have appeared in The Globe and Mail and other major Canadian newspapers. He is also the author of academic articles that have been cited twice by the Supreme Court of Canada. He teaches a course at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law. Feasby led efforts at his firm to create the Osler Professorship in Corporate Law at the University of Alberta.
Before joining Osler, Feasby clerked for the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench and Alberta Court of Appeal.
Mitchell P. Finkelstein
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Mitchell Finkelstein is a Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP partner with a diverse corporate, commercial and securities law practice with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. He has acted for clients in a broad range of transactions, including the domestic and cross-border take-over bids and business combinations, acquisitions and dispositions or private companies, public and private offerings of equity, debt and structured products and bank and mortgage financings.
Finkelstein also advises public companies on Canadian securities regulation and corporate governance matters on an ongoing basis.
In the past six years, Finkelstein has acted extensively in the real estate investment trust field, playing a lead role in the IPOs and follow-on offerings of, and bank, mezzanine and mortgaging financings for, IPC US REIT and InnVest REIT. He also acted for the underwriters in the IPOs of Crombie REIT and Senior Care REIT. Finkelstein is currently representing IPC US REIT in its public sales process and is acting for potential bidders participating in a public or private auctions process involving three other REITs.
One CEO wrote into Finkelstein's nomination, “There's not a deal where we wouldn't want [him] acting on our behalf. He has a complete understanding of our operations and unique structure and brings to the table a practical business perspective…”
Simon R. Fitzpatrick
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Simon Fitzpatrick is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP's financial services group in Toronto. Prior to joining the firm in 1999, he spent three years in London, England, practising with a prominent US firm in the area of structured finance.
Fitzpatrick's practice focuses primarily on securitization. He has extensive experience in acting for single and multi-seller securitization conduits, originators, issuers, liquidity providers, credit enhancers, underwriters and investment banks. He has been involved in a large number of transactions in Canada, the UK and the US covering a wide variety of asset classes, including residential and commercial mortgages, credit cards, installment sales contracts, lease receivables, trade receivables, CLOs, lines of credit and student loans.
Examples of deals that Fitzpatrick has worked on include:
i) Ford Auto Securitization Trust, in which he was counsel to Ford Credit Canada Limited on their first public offering of asset-backed securities in Canada;
ii) Schooner Trust, in which he was counsel to a leading issuer of commercial mortgage backed securities; and
iii)GE Canada, in which he was counsel to this company in structuring master lease and loan securitization programs.
Mireille Fontaine
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Mireille Fontaine is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP's Montreal office. She specializes in the areas of private equity (including venture capital) and mergers and acquisitions.
In her practice, Fontaine advises on corporate mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations in the private sector including US/Canada cross-border and international transactions and in insolvency situations, in particular in the life sciences and technology industries. She also has a wide range of expertise in investments and buy-outs by venture capital corporations and private equity funds in such industries. She represents a number of medical, biotech and technology companies as well as various institutional venture capital investment firms and private equity funds.
She is experienced in selling Canadian businesses to foreign companies and acting for foreign companies when acquiring Canadian businesses and subsequently providing a full range of commercial law services to these clients on an ongoing basis.
Fontaine's recent experience includes:
i) lead counsel to Progress Software Corporation, a US company, in its acquisition of the assets of Aruna Software Inc. and Aruna Solutions Inc. engaged in the business of developing, selling, licensing and supporting query processing and data management systems;
ii) lead counsel to Cellpoint Connect AB, a Swedish public company, in its acquisition of Gennum Corporation's Canadian business relating to consumer wireless headsets; and
iii)counsel to Now Public in its exchangeable share structure investment of $10.6 million by Rho Ventures and Rho Canada.
John F. Fox
Toronto Community Housing Corporation – Legal Services
John Fox is general counsel to the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC), having previously been an equity partner in the commercial real estate group at McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP.
Since moving to TCHC, he has had responsibility for the legal aspects associated with the redevelopment of Regent Park in Toronto as well as other TCHC developments including at Don Mount Court at the corners of Dundas and Carroll Streets, at the waterfront, and shortly, at Lawrence Heights. As in-house counsel, he is directly responsible for these developments from procurement to planning through to construction.
On the Rising Stars criterion of “contribution to firm profitability,” Fox's nominator writes: “Profitability is also a large concern for TCHC as the money it turns from condo sales finances needed projects. Fox is always re-examining existing and new financial relationships in order to maximize revenues to TCHC.”
As for the “team player” criterion, the nominator writes: “One of the challenges in an organization like TCHC is that [Fox] is obliged to defend TCHC's interest in transactions with developers and with the City of Toronto with which TCHC will continue to engage in different future deals. His ability to maintain positive relationships with the opposing counsel and with executives with whom he negotiates is therefore essential to the long term goals and objectives of the organization and [Fox] brings that sensibility to every meeting.”
Michael Friedman
McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP
As a member of the McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP team, Michael Friedman has been involved in the resolution of a number of challenging and complicated tax disputes. For example, he and the team successfully represented Hewlett-Packard before the Federal Court of Appeal in a case involving the tax treatment of asset dispositions that has broad implications for the taxation of all business enterprises in Canada.
Friedman has also played an active role in the tax-efficient structuring of a wide array of hedge funds and mutual funds, including the development of innovative structured products aimed at producing superior after-tax returns. In the course of his commercial tax practice, Friedman has supported a broad range of private equity and mining-related transactions on both a domestic and cross-border basis and has counseled clients in a variety of commercial sectors. Further, a sizeable element of Friedman's practice has focused on structuring efficient cross-border financings and guiding lenders in the establishment of tax-efficient lending arrangements in a number of high profile contexts.
Friedman's high public profile has been a great benefit to his firm. He is an active and recognized commentator on Canadian and international tax matters. He is regularly consulted by the media, has frequently appeared on BNN and CTV, and has been quoted in newspapers across Canada, including The Globe and Mail and the National Post.
Leonard A. Gangbar
Miller Thomson LLP
Leonard Gangbar is a partner in Miller Thomson LLP's Toronto office, where he is a co-practice group leader of the real estate and property development group. He is also national chair of the firm's condominium industry group. His practice covers a broad spectrum of transactions including development, project financing, acquisitions and dispositions.
Gangbar acts for a number of Ontario's largest developers covering areas of industrial, commercial, multi-family and condominium developments. He also acts for the primary Brownfield Fund in Ontario. In addition to that representation, Gangbar represents a large, national aggregate group and several US real estate investors and REITS.
According to his Rising Stars nomination form, Gangbar “by his own initiative, through planning, networking and immersion…gained an impressive roster of his own national and international clients and built an enviable resume of experience in less than a decade.” Exemplifying his business acumen, Gangbar coordinated a team of Canadian, Bahamian and Hong Kong counsel on finance structuring for a Canadian development by a Hong Kong-based development company.
Sunny Handa
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Sunny Handa is a partner and co-head of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP's information technology group and India working group. Handa deals with information technology, intellectual property, communications (telecommunications and broadcasting) and electronic commerce matters, and a range of corporate/commercial matters relating to technology and communications businesses, as well as a substantial practice in mergers and acquisitions of technology companies.
He also has an active life sciences/health law practice and has worked extensively for some of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies on a wide array of operational drug-related as well as corporate and commercial matters.
Handa represents a number of Indian companies doing business in Canada, as well as Canadian companies doing business in India. He was invited to attend the Province of Quebec's last two trade missions to India.
Handa is an adjunct professor of law at McGill University, where he has been teaching for the past 13 years. He currently teaches courses on information technology law, and complex legal transactions; and has taught communications law, copyright and trade-mark theory, copyright and information technology law and mergers and acquisitions law in the recent past. He also oversees graduate students writing in the fields of intellectual property, information technology and communications law.
He has also published widely in legal literature and has also authored and co-authored a number of books on information technology, communications law, copyright law and business.
David G. Henley
Stewart McKelvey
David Henley is a partner at Stewart McKelvey in Halifax. He has a broad commercially oriented practice in maritime, construction, energy and natural resources, and environmental law. He is experienced in litigating in these areas. Moreover, he has been involved in asset financing work in a marine context, and has negotiated and drafted many contracts.
Henley represents various maritime and offshore interests. He is a past-chair of the CBA Environmental Law Subsection, Nova Scotia, and has written and presented papers on a variety of marine-related subjects.
Henley is an associate of the Marine Environmental Law Institute and a member of the part-time faculty at Dalhousie University Law School where he teaches Fisheries Law. On a regular basis, Henley provides consultation to governmental departments on marine-related issues through his association with the Marine Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie University.
Krista F. Hill
Torys LLP
Krista Hill is a partner in Torys LLP's corporate department and co-coordinator of the firm's infrastructure and energy group. She has significant expertise in power and infrastructure mergers and acquisitions and project development, both within Canada and internationally.
Hill has recently represented:
i) Fort Chicago Energy Partners in its C$200 million acquisition of Countryside Power Income Fund by way of a take-over bid;
ii) Alinda Infrastructure Fund in its C$1.7 billion acquisition of UE Waterheater Income Fund;
iii)Macquarie Infrastructure Partners in its C$173 acquisition of Halterm Income Fund's subsidiary Halterm Limited, the operator of a terminal at the Halifax port;
iv)Borealis Infrastructure in its part in a US$6.3 billion acquisition of Associated British Ports, the UK's largest ports company; and in its part of a £3.2 billion acquisition of the South of England and Scotland gas distribution networks from National Grid Transco; and in its investment in New York Regional Interconnect, which is developing a high voltage electric transmission line in New York; and
v) The Ontario Ministry of Energy in its negotiations with the Province of Quebec concerning the expansion of the Ontario-Quebec electricity intertie, and in an associated power purchase agreement in its negotiations with the Province of Manitoba concerning the expansion of the Ontario-Manitoba electricity intertie, and in an associated power purchase agreement.
Sanjay M. Joshi
WeirFoulds LLP
Sanjay Joshi is a partner in WeirFoulds LLP's securities law practice group and is called to the Bar in Ontario and British Columbia. Sanjay acts as counsel for companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, NASDAQ, AMEX and the OTCBB. His clients include several natural resource and exploration companies, entrepreneurial and growth-oriented companies in the technology, new media, e-commerce and telecommunications sectors and certain investment and merchant banks based in Europe.
Among his recent files, Joshi acted as sole or lead counsel for:
i) Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX:MPV) in its acquisition of another public company, Camphor Ventures (CFV:TSX-V);
ii) API Electonics Group (AEGCF:OTCBB) in its take-over by a US public company, RVI Ventures (RBCV:OTCBB); and
iii)Multiple financings and acquisitions by Kaboose (KAB:TSX)
Joshi provides ongoing advice to clients all over the world. In 2007, he traveled to Mexico to visit production facilities for a pharmaceutical producer; to Dubai to negotiate financing arrangements for a private education provider; and to Abu Dhabi to act in the reorganization of a UAE broadband provider.
Colleen P. Keyes
McInnes Cooper
Colleen Keyes of McInnes Cooper's Halifax office represents private companies, reporting issuers and publicly-listed issuers in structuring and completing equity financings, including public offerings and private placements through the negotiation, drafting and implementation of term sheets, underwriting and agency agreements, prospectuses, offering memoranda, escrow agreements and subscription agreements.
Keyes also liaises regularly with securities commissions and stock exchanges in obtaining required approvals.
And she is involved in planning, negotiating and executing amalgamations, mergers and acquisitions and in preparing for and defending take-over bids and reverse take-overs.
Her recent accomplishments include:
i) As lead securities counsel, representing PDM Royalties Income Fund (TSX) in its November 2006 $25.5M public offering of convertible debentures to fund acquisition of intellectual property rights used in connection with restaurant franchise;
ii) As lead counsel, representing General Donlee Income Fund, a TSX-listed income trust, in connection with the public offering of $50M aggregate convertible unsecured subordinated debentures in June 2007;
iii) As co-counsel on a number of acquisitions, including: the take-over of Royal Roads Corporation, a TSX-V listed company, by Acadian Mining Corporation in August 2006; and
iv) As co-counsel on the amalgamation by way of plan of arrangement of Kaoclay Resources Inc., a reporting issuer, with Erdene Gold Inc., a TSX-listed company in June 2006.
Cameron D. Koziskie
Torys LLP
Cameron Koziskie practises corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on private equity, mergers and acquisitions and securities law at Torys LLP. He has acted for numerous Canadian private equity funds in all aspects of their businesses (including acquisition, recapitalization and exit transactions for their investments as well as fund formation activities). Koziskie also regularly acts for other clients in their private merger and acquisition transactions in numerous industries.
Koziskie has recently been involved in numerous debt and equity investments and exits by private equity funds, merchant banks and pension funds including :
i) the investment by a consortium of private equity funds in a life reinsurance business;
ii) the purchase by a hedge fund of certain pharmaceutical rights, including to the drug Vancocin;
iii) the investment by a private equity fund in a Quebec-based clothing designer and manufacturer;
iv) the leveraged buyout by a private equity fund of a chain of discount retail stores;
v) the initial public offering of Resolve Business Outsourcing Income Fund as part of the exit strategy for an investment by a private equity fund; and
vi) the leveraged buyout by a private equity fund in a food processing business.
According to his nominator, Koziskie “has become a trusted advisor and is correctly praised by his clients for his ability to find solutions to problems, often before the client is aware that there is an issue…He has demonstrated an ability to learn about new industries quickly as his clients have identified new potential acquisitions.”
Dean Allan Kraus
Stikeman Elliott LLP
Dean Kraus is a partner in Stikeman Elliott LLP's Toronto taxation practice, with a particular emphasis on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, structured finance, partnerships and investment funds.
Last year, he advised CVRD in its acquisition of Inco, Nucor in its acquisition of Harris Steel, and Royal Dutch Shell in its acquisition of Shell Canada. He has also advised several US private equity firms with respect to acquisitions of Canadian targets, most predominantly income trusts.
Kraus is very involved in the Canadian Tax Foundation and the International Bar Association. Last year, he completed his tenure serving on the tax advisory working group for the Investment Funds Institute of Canada.
His nominator writes: Kraus “is constantly looking for new ways to deliver value to his clients and to take advantage, where possible, of change.” For example, when market capitalizations of income trusts plummeted, Kraus's “response was to view the depressed prices as a marketing opportunity…”
Keith D. LaBossiere
Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP
Keith LaBossiere's practice is concentrated in the areas of general civil and commercial litigation with an emphasis on labour and employment law. He has a particular expertise in police employment law. He also acts on behalf of and provides labour relations advice to hospitals in Manitoba.
LaBossiere provides advice and advocacy to his clients, both employer and employee, on a variety of labour and employment matters including matters of discipline, termination and interpretation of collective agreements and is frequently involved in negotiating and/or litigating such matters.
LaBossiere also has experience in appearing as counsel on these matters in Labour Board proceedings, collective agreement grievance arbitrations and the civil courts. LaBossiere acts on behalf of CanWest Global Communications Inc. and recently appeared on its behalf in a very lengthy, complex and challenging matter before the Canada Labour Relations Board.
LaBossiere was a Law Society of Manitoba Bencher for the period 1993 to 1994. In 1994, LaBossiere was the recipient of the A. Montague Israels Q.C. prize of the Law Society of Manitoba. He remains actively involved at the University of Manitoba, assisting in teaching the Advocacy Course and in judging students in mock trials.
Marie-Josée Lapierre
Yellow Pages Group Co.
Marie-Josée Lapierre is Director of Legal Services for Yellow Pages Group.
Following UPG's August 2003 initial public offering, where she played a key role coordinating and revising the securities documentation, key agreements, closing documentation and supervising the due diligence effort, Lapierre assisted in setting up YPG's legal department, as the Vice-President's right-hand person. She participated in the creation and implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley-worthy procedures and governance. According to her nominator, “Her focus, stamina and expertise allowed her to accomplish this endeavour while playing an active role in all of one of the TSX's most active public issuer's needs in terms of securities, contracts, litigation matters and intellectual property.”
In 2006, when YPG acquired MTS Media (the directory division of MTS Allstream Inc.) for $275M, she was lead lawyer, coordinating the file. In the 2007 acquisition of Aliant Directory Services (the directory division of Bell Aliant Regional Communications L.P.), for $378M, she led the legal team, coordinating the file and the external teams, representing YPG in the negotiation of all agreements with Bell Aliant, reviewing the closing documentation, merger review process and due diligence.
“As a demonstration of her legal talent and acute understanding of the company's business needs,” her nominator writes, “she represented YPG in the negotiation of its most important supplier contracts such as the $1B printing agreement with Quebecor World Inc.” in 2006.
Among her charitable efforts, she recently raised funds for the Cancer Society and she provides time, financial assistance and integration education to two Peruvian families immigrating to Canada.
Christian Leblanc
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Christian Leblanc is a Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP partner, practising commercial and civil litigation, with a particular emphasis on intellectual property, high technology, media law, communications and defamation.
Leblanc's media and communications practice also encompasses intellectual property litigation, including copyrights, trademarks, high technology and patents. He acts on behalf of clients before all Quebec courts, the trial and appeal divisions of the Federal Court of Canada and various administrative tribunals such as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
Leblanc acts for some of the larger media enterprises in Canada, and regularly intervenes on their behalf in issues relating to freedom of the press and freedom of speech. He also represents many clients operating in a wide number of industries seeking to protect and assert their rights as regards intellectual property and state-of-the-art technology. Leblanc regularly gives pre-broadcast and pre-publication advice to his media clients on topics requiring fast and critical action before being broadcast or published — or not. He also intervenes in extra-judicial proceedings with which the media are sometimes confronted, such as pre-publication injunctions and seizures of journalistic materials.
Desmond M. Lee
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Desmond Lee practises corporate and securities law in Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP's Toronto office. He acts as counsel to both issuers and underwriters on a wide variety of transactional and non-transactional matters, including domestic and cross-border public offerings and private placements of securities, acquisitions of private and public companies and compliance with securities legislation.
Lee is a co-chair of the firm's corporate finance specialty group and participates in a number of practice and management initiatives at the firm, including recruitment and training.
According to his nominator: Lee “often works with our entrepreneurial clients such as Dundee REIT whom he has acted for since its conversion to a REIT in 2003. [Lee] has assisted Dundee on nine public offerings and is currently assisting with the sale of its Eastern real estate portfolio to GE Real Estate — the first ever partial sale of an income trust business.”
Christopher P. Naudie
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Christopher Naudie is a partner in Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP's litigation department. He practises corporate and commercial litigation across several fields including corporate governance and securities, class action defence, competition and trade law, pension regulation, taxation disputes, telecommunications regulation, and employment and labour law.
According to his nominator, Naudie “has achieved an outstanding track record of success in representing clients in ‘bet-the-business' litigation. [He] recently represented a client in several cross-border class actions and regulatory investigations arising from one of the largest securities fraud investigations in Canada.”
Naudie has acted as counsel in a number of major antitrust and securities investigations and enforcement actions. He also has significant experience in litigating shareholder and pension plan disputes, and in conducting damage, asset and share valuation proceedings. His practice includes the representation of Canadian-based and foreign clients across a range of industry sectors, including financial services, entertainment and media, information technology, air transportation and energy and natural resources.
Bradley A. Newby
Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
Bradley Newby practises business law at Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP in Vancouver, primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, general corporate/commercial law and corporate finance. His clients include business leaders in the financial services, retail, professional services, biotechnology and high-tech industries.
Newby has led and assisted with a variety of commercial transactions including asset and share acquisitions, private equity investments, licensing, distribution and franchising agreements, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and strategic alliances. He has also worked extensively on several income trust public financings.
Newby has been involved in many of Vancouver's leadin deals, including:
i) the $1.3B sale of Metro-McNair Laboratories to Borealis Infrastructure Fund (2007);
ii) the negotiation of the first foreign JV for Vancouver fashion star Lululemon Athletica (2006) with Japanese fashion dynamo, Descente Inc.;
iii) the private equity investment of Berkshire Equity Partners of Boston in national women's fashion retailer, Aritzia, in a deal worth $225M; and
iv) the sale of Centra Gas British Columbia Inc. and Centra Gas Whistler Inc. to BC Gas Inc. (2002).
François Ouellette
Bombardier Inc – Aerospace
François Ouellette is Vice-President, Legal Affairs, Bombardier Aerospace. With that company's revenues for the year ending January 31, 2007 exceeding $8 billion, he has his work cut out for him.
He leads a team of approximately 25 lawyers from around the world in connection with all legal requirements of the Aerospace group — from negotiating with suppliers and entering into joint venture arrangements with partners to negotiating for the sale of aircraft to, for example, high net worth individuals or providers of regional aircraft services. Moreover, Ouellette is closely involved in dealings with human resources issues, negotiating collective bargaining agreements and having overall responsibility for managing and co-ordinating multi-million dollar cross-border litigation matters.
According to his nominator, Ouellette's “involvement in light of the restructuring of US aircraft companies (which are among Bombardier's larger clients) and the creation of joint ventures in emerging markets (China, India and in the Gulf states), demonstrate his creativity and business acumen and ability to adapt to changes in the business environment. In addition, his valued role as a member of the group management committee (led by the CEO of Bombardier Aerospace) reflects his influence beyond the legal sphere.”
Michelle Roth
Goodmans LLP
Michelle Roth has developed a strong practice in commercial law at Goodmans LLP and handles a diverse range of transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, banking and finance, trusts and real estate. Roth played an integral role in the formation and subsequent combination of two Canadian seniors care REITs and is a member of Goodmans' REITs and income funds group.
Roth has also emerged as a key player in commercial health law and is a founding member of the Goodmans' health law group. Roth's broad base of experience has resulted in her leading several innovative transactions, including uniquely structured seniors care and pharmacy acquisitions, seniors care financings for both lenders and borrowers, community healthcare restructurings, REIT combinations and reorganizations, long-term care development projects and life science and pharmaceutical company initiatives.
Roth is also focused on promoting transactional efficiencies for her clients and provides or directs ‘transaction liaise' services that range from relocating to in-house premises to lead and organize transaction activities, to instituting and guiding interactive web-based negotiations. Roth serves as co-head of the corporate services department, is a member of the continuing legal education committee and is involved in and deeply committed to the Goodmans' articling student program. Roth has practised in Vancouver and Toronto.
Jim Russell
Heenan Blaikie LLP
Jim Russell is an entertainment lawyer with Heenan Blaikie LLP, with a particular focus in entertainment lending. He has advised or represented many of the Canadian chartered banks and commercial lenders in the market, including the Royal Bank of Canada, National Bank, HSBC Bank Canada, CIBC and TD. He has also advised various foreign banks and commercial lenders.
According to his nominator, Russell has also advised film, television and video producers and distributors “in connection with complex, innovative, domestic, foreign and cross-border financing structures.”
Recent transactions in which he was involved include:
i) Lions Gate Entertainment – a US$200M equity raise for a feature film production and acquisition placed by Goldman Sachs;
ii) HSBC Bank Canada and Rhombus Media – a production loan for “Silk”, a Canada-Italy-Japan co-production based on the book by Jose Saramago, directed by Fernando Meirelles and starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo (production budget $27M); and
iii)Whizbang Films and Rhombus Media – “Passchendaele”, directed by and starring Paul Gross (production budget $19.25M.
Dana D. J. Schindelka
Davis LLP
Dana Schindelka is a partner in the Davis LLP Calgary office and he practises in the area of civil litigation. He is the vice-chair of the firm's franchise and distribution group.
Schindelka's practice involves providing counsel to clients with respect to the areas of commercial, professional liability, employment, labour, human rights, insurance, franchise, administrative, environmental, products liability, oil and gas and personal injury litigation. According to his nominator, Schindelka has represented diverse clients that “include Canada's largest integrated oil company, other oil and gas companies, some of the largest insurance companies in Canada, large corporations, Indian Bands, franchisors, and individuals…With a practice tending towards that of the classical advocate, [Schindelka] is at home in civil cases of all kinds, constitutional cases, and professional discipline cases for the legal and medical professions.”
Schindelka has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Alberta Court of Appeal, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, the Provincial Court of Alberta, the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench, the Provincial Court of Saskatchewan and at various arbitrations and mediations.
Chris D. Simard
Bennett Jones LLP
Chris Simard of Bennett Jones LLP's Calgary office has a practice that encompasses all areas of restructuring and bankruptcy as well as energy litigation. He acts for creditors, debtors, court-appointed monitors, receivers and trustees in bankruptcy and in large and complex insolvencies and restructurings.
In the area of energy litigation, Simard has advised energy companies on disputes arising out of CAPL, seismic and security agreements and on various matters related to Crown and freehold leases.
Simard frequently writes and speaks on bankruptcy and restructuring issues. He has authored papers for the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation, Canadian Institute seminars and Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals seminars.
His nominator writes: “In the case of many of his long-term clients, he first provided them with discrete advice on a single legal dispute. Thereafter, those clients have returned to him for assistance with further disputes, and now consult him on a wider variety of business and legal strategies before matters develop into disputes.”
Gregory G. Southam
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Greg Southam is a Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP partner practising in the areas of commercial real estate, banking and corporate/commercial law. He has worked on a variety of corporate and commercial matters, including share and asset acquisitions, construction matters, debt financings, gaming matters, public-private infrastructure projects, leasing, and acquisitions and dispositions of commercial real estate holdings.
He is currently lead counsel to consortia on Access Justice Durham (Ontario) and on Miami Access Tunnel (Florida). In the last few years, Southam has played a key role in advising a consortium in the Canadian public-private infrastructure sector, including on the Academic Ambulatory Care Centre of Vancouver General Hospital (British Columbia), Abbotsford Hospital and Cancer Centre (British Columbia) and Anthony Henday Drive Southeast Leg Ring Road (Alberta). In addition, he has assisted in advising a successful consortium on a light rail transit line in Ontario, advising the lenders on the Richmond Airport Vancouver Rapid Transit Project (now known as the Canada Line) (British Columbia) and has been involved in other infrastructure projects in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.
In recent years, Southam played a key role in the multi-billion dollar disposition program of the Canadian office portfolio of one of Canada's largest public real estate corporations. Southam has also played a lead role in assisting Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation with its slot machine initiative at racetracks across Ontario.
Martin J. Valasek
Ogilvy Renault LLP
Martin Valasek practises in the areas of international commercial arbitration for Ogilvy Renault LLP, including the resolution of investor-state disputes; and corporate and commercial litigation, with a particular focus on cross-border disputes.
He has been involved in many international arbitrations, covering a wide range of legal systems and industries, including airport development, banking, construction, mining, energy, lotteries and steel manufacturing.
His recent arbitration mandates include:
i) representing a Canadian company in connection with an investment dispute with the Republic of Kazakhstan, seeking compensation (in excess of US$4 billion) under Kazakhstan's Foreign Investment Law for breach of various agreements (UNCITRAL arbitration in Stockholm);
ii) co-representing Cypriot companies in connection with an investment dispute with the Republic of Hungary (ICSID arbitration in Washington and London), resulting in an award of US$83.5 million in compensation for an unlawful expropriation;
iii) representing several manufacturing clients in various international commercial disputes, including a €50 million dispute under a long-term outsourcing contract (ICC arbitration in Montréal), a US$10 million dispute under a supply sub-contract (ad hoc arbitration in New York), and a $7 million dispute under a supply contract (ad hoc arbitration in Montréal); and
iv) acting as Assistant to the Chairman of an UNCITRAL Tribunal (in The Hague) in a dispute between three shareholders in Yukos Oil Corporation OJSC and the Russian Federation, involving claims for expropriation under the Energy Charter Treaty.
John P. Vettese
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
John Vettese is a partner in the securities group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. He acts for issuers and investment dealers in their pursuit of both private and public financing in Canada and abroad and in connection with mergers and acquisitions.
A few of John's more recent transactions include representing:
i) E.D. Smith Income Fund in connection with its $110 million initial public offering;
ii) Cargojet Income Fund in connection with its $60 million initial public offering;
iii) Uranium Participation Corporation in connection with its $100 million initial public offering;
iv) Golf Town Income Fund in connection with its $100 million initial public offering and acquisition of Golf Town Canada Inc.;
v) PDM Royalties Income Fund in its $50 million initial public offering and acquisition of intellectual property from Pizza Delight Corporation Ltd.; and
vi) the underwriters in Cambior Inc.'s $100 million bought deal financing.
Justin D. Vineberg
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Justin Vineberg is a partner in the Montréal office of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. Vineberg is active in counselling ambitious entrepreneurs in various types of businesses including life sciences and high-technology with respect to mergers and acquisitions, private placements, shareholder issues, unique finance structures, cross-border issues, product development, strategic alliances, distributions, collaborations and licensing.
Vineberg has recently been involved in the following publicly disclosed transactions: represented Gemin X Biotechnologies Inc. in its US$65.2 million financing consisting of a US$50 million equity injection and a US$15.2 million loan; acted for Procaps Encapsulation Inc. in connection with the sale of its assets to a fund managed by Imperial Capital Corporation; represented Graceway Pharmaceuticals, LLC in connection with its acquisition of the Canadian pharmaceuticals business from 3M Canada Company; acted for Neurochem Inc. in its $85 million initial public offering on NASDAQ and additional offering on the TSE; represented Adaltis Inc. in its initial public offering on the TSE and a subsequent convertible debenture financing; acted for the venture capitalists in the private placements of Innodia Inc.; established a joint venture in China among Picchio Pharma Inc., Adaltis Inc. and CITIC Pacific Ltd. and assisted Wavesat Inc. in its private placement and in the sale of its satellite communication and amplifier business to Mitec Telecom Inc. From 1999 to 2007, Vineberg was a director of AOL Canada Inc.
George G. Vuicic
Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
George Vuicic is a partner in the Ottawa office of Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP. He maintains a bilingual practice, advising and representing clients in both official languages. Vuicic's practice covers a broad range of labour and employment issues, including litigation, regulatory prosecutions, arbitration and labour board proceedings. He also advises school boards, both on labour relations and education law, including special education issues. He has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, as well as the Federal Court of Canada.
Among the successes his nominator notes, are these decisions:
i) Regulvar Canada Inc. v. Ontario, in which Vuicic argued and won the only reported decision on the Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act;
ii) Gigliotti v. Conseil d'administration du Collège des Grands Lacs, in which Vuicic defended against a constitutional and administrative law challenge to the closure of a community college;
iii) Workplace Safety and Insurance Board v. A. Potvin Construction, in which Vuicic defended the accused in one of the first and largest regulatory prosecutions under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, resulting in the dismissal of 26 out of 44 charges;
iv) SARP Sewer-Matic Inc. v. Brule, in which Vuicic obtained an interlocutory injunction preventing a former executive from competing.
Linda A. Widdup
MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP
Linda Widdup practises commercial insolvency and restructuring, as well as commercial lending. MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP in Saskatoon. She provides advice to lenders, receivers, trustees in bankruptcy and debtors in commercial insolvency matters including proceedings under the CCAA. Her practice includes both the litigation and solicitor aspects of insolvency and restructuring matters.
One of Widdup's more significant assignments was her involvement as local counsel on a US$800M financing for a major multi-national resource company by a US bank.
Widdup also acts for lenders and borrowers in commercial lending transactions. She has extensive experience in drafting credit and security documentation for financial institutions for use in their national commercial lending operations.
Prior to starting with MLT's Saskatoon office, Widdup worked for four years in the banking and financial services group of a major New Zealand law firm. The focus of her work in New Zealand was providing advice on that country's newly-enacted Personal Property Security Act, which was modeled closely after the Saskatchewan legislation. Widdup has authored a book and a number of articles on personal property security legislation and the registration and realization of security interests.
