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Corporate 2013

The Lexpert Guides to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate and Litigation Lawyers in Canada profiles leading business lawyers and features articles for attorneys and in-house counsel in the US about business law issues in Canada.

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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS James D. Scarlett Practice focuses on public market M&A, corporate finance and board advisory mandates. Former director, Capital Markets Branch, OSC. Member of Executive Committee and co-head of Mining Group. Extensive experience in public market transactions and advising senior management and boards of directors on legal and strategic matters. Recent transactions include Viterra's sale to Glencore, HOMEQ Corporation's sale to Birch Hill Partners, IPOs of Global Water Resources and Whistler Blackcomb, Wi-Lan's attempted take-over of Mosaid, the sale of Bumble Bee Foods to Lion Capital, DuPont Canada's acquisition of manufacturing assets from INVISTA (Canada), restructuring of Primary Energy Recycling Corporation, Pallinghurst Resources' financing of Platmin Limited, and Viterra's acquisitions of ABB and Agricore United. Listed in numerous publications for his expertise in M&A, corporate finance and capital markets. JD, 1981, University of Toronto. Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-8199 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto jscarlett@torys.com Kevin J. Thomson Widely regarded and ranked by numerous rating agencies as one of Canada's leading M&A lawyers, including Chambers Global ("Consistently superb, and always correct."), IFLR1000, Who's Who Legal, PLC's Cross-border M&A Guide, Expert Guides' Guide to the World's Leading Metals and Mining Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in Canada. Acted as lead counsel in Minmetals Resources' $1.33-billion bid for Anvil Mining and its $6.3-billion unsolicited bid for Equinox Resources, Newmont's $2.3-billion acquisition of Fronteer Gold, Eike Batista's $1.6-billion hostile bid for Ventana Gold, Toromont Industries' hostile bid for Enerflex Systems Income Fund, Fresnillo's unsolicited bid for MAG Silver, Detour Gold's merger with PDX Resources, Zinfex's bid for Wolfden Resources, WEGA Mining's bid for Goldbelt Resources and numerous change of control transactions for Barrick Gold, including Barrick's $10.3-billion acquisition of Placer Dome (at the time the largest hostile bid in Canadian history and still the largest acquisition ever completed in the world's gold mining industry). Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5590 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto kthomson@dwpv.com Edward J. Waitzer Chair of Stikeman Elliott from 1999 to 2006, senior partner and leader of the Corporate Governance Group. Practice focuses on complex business transactions, as well as advising in respect of various public policy and governance matters. Former Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission (and of the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions) and Vice President of The Toronto Stock Exchange. Writes and speaks extensively on a variety of legal and public policy issues. Professor and the Jarislowsky Dimma Mooney Chair in Corporate Governance and Director of the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business at York University. Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada, International Who's Who of Capital Markets Lawyers, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and IFLR's Guide to the World's Leading Corporate Governance Lawyers, among others. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5587 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto ewaitzer@stikeman.com Peter Castiel Stikeman Elliott LLP Partner and head of the Montréal Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group whose practice primarily focuses on cross-border mergers & acquisitions and corporate financings. Co-chair of the Associate Committee and member of the Management Committee of the Montréal office. He has extensive expertise in advising private-equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and leading public and private companies in connection with acquisitions, divestitures and investments. Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013; The 2013 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Who's Who Legal 100 2012 and the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2012 in the area of mergers & acquisitions; The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2012; and in the Who's Who Legal: Canada 2011 directory. Member of the Québec Bar and member of the Canadian Bar Association. Admitted to the Québec Bar in 1993. Tel: (514) 397-3272 Fax: (514) 397-3572 Montréal pcastiel@stikeman.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 115 D-00-Bios.indd 115 13-05-16 1:56 PM

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