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8 LEXPERT MAGAZINE | OCTOBER 2019 Both a lawyer and a charted profes- sional accountant, Andrea Dickin- son's practice focuses on personal and corporate tax planning corporate reorganizations and implementa- tions, private company advice and wealth management, insurance, trust and estate planning and voluntary disclosures, as well as advising on both domestic and international tax matters. "Andrea brings 15 years of experience in tax, and her extensive knowledge and experience will be a great asset to our clients and our team," said national leader of BLG's tax group Craig Webster. ANDREA DICKINSON Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Toronto Tax MATT COCKBURN Torys LLP Toronto Private equity and M&A SARA ZBOROVSKI Stikeman Elliott LLP Toronto Corporate Matt Cockburn will become man- aging partner at Torys LLP on April 1, 2020, following the exit, after 22 years, of Les Viner. Cockburn is a leading private equity lawyer and played a central role in building Torys' private equity group, said Viner in a Torys press release. Cock- burn has been on Torys' executive committee for the last eight years. "I lead by example — I like to think of myself as a very hands-off per- son who is always there to support people and help them with the in- itiatives that they want to pursue," Cockburn told Law Times. Sara Zborovski's practice is focused on giving regulatory and commercial counsel to companies regulated by Health Canada. She recently joined Stikeman Elliott LLP in their corporate group. The University of Toronto law grad has spent her career at Gilbert's LLP, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP and was food law and regulatory director at the Canadian Insitute of Food Science and Technol- ogy, Ontario section, according to her Linkedin page. Zborovski also advises cleints in pharmaceuticals, cannabis, food and beverage and other industries on product safety and product recall. equity funds. Roberts has assisted public and private companies and private equity funds in connection with mergers and ac- quisitions and corporate reorganization and restructuring transactions. Stephen Gleave has joined DLA Piper (Canada) LLP as partner in the firm's To- ronto office. A commercial litigator who focuses on employment litigation, Gleave has 30 years of experience and has com- pleted more than 50 trials, 300 labour and commercial arbitrations and 50 labour and civil injunctions. Gleave represents clients in wrongful competition matters, such as restrictive covenants, breach of confidence, breach of fiduciary duties, Charter chal- lenges, retirement and benefit issues, ex- ecutive compensations plans and complex wrongful dismissal actions, among other matters. He also acts for employers in com- plex disputes stemming from shareholders agreement or the Ontario Business Corpo- rations Act, including Rights of First Re- fusals, the valuation of a business, motions for advanced payments in a shareholder valuation dispute, oppression or derivate actions brought against or on behalf of a corporation. Gleave comes to DLA Piper via Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Sto- rie LLP. Partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Elisa Kearney has been appointed secretary-treasurer of the Cana- dian Bar Association's competition law sec- tion executive. Kearney will "support the section's mission to promote legal and pol- icy analysis, dialogue, education, diversity and leadership among Canadian competi- ONTARIO TORONTO Alex Roberts is joining DLA Piper (Can- ada) LLP as partner in the Toronto office. Roberts has a corporate finance practice with a focus on banking and finance, finan- cial services, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate reorganizations and restructurings. Join- ing the firm from Baker & McKenzie LLP, he has experience with multijurisdictional secured and unsecured lending transac- tions with an emphasis on asset-based lend- ing, acquisition financings, project finance and structured finance and acts for clients in numerous acquisitions and divestiture transactions, as well as complex corporate and tax reorganizations and restructurings and plans of arrangement involving both private and public companies and private A snapshot of recent hires, mergers, splits and appointments across Canada Compiled by Aidan Macnab People on the Move MOVES