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TECHNOLOGY TRANSACTIONS Duncan C. Card Senior Partner and Co-Chair of the Technology, Procurement and Defence & Security practices. Devoted to commercial transactions related to technology and strategic procurement transactions, including enterprise IT, high-tech goods and services, corporate governance, risk management, international industrial technology and health informatics. Director of numerous corporations and is widely published, including his acclaimed book, Technology Transactions (370 pages, Carswell, 2nd ed.). He is cited in: Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Technology Lawyers; Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in Canada; LawDay's North America's Leading Lawyers; highest IT transactions ranking of "leading" lawyer in Canada in 2012 PLC Which Lawyer?; Financial Post's "Best Technology Lawyers in Canada Directory"; Guide to World's Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers; and 2013 Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada. BA (Hons) (Gold Medal), LLB, LLM, ICDD (2013, Rotman School of Business). Called to both Ontario and Bermuda Bars. Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (416) 777-6446 Fax: (416) 863-1716 Toronto cardd@bennettjones.com Richard J. Coleman Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Senior advisor to technology customers and suppliers in connection with the structuring, negotiation and implementation of large, complex domestic and global IT transactions including outsourcings, large-scale technology projects, competitive procurement, teaming and alliances. Also provides legal guidance in licensing, systems integration, software development, hardware acquisition, reseller arrangements, shared services and other commercial transactions, including mergers & acquisitions involving IT. A recognized leader in respect of outsourcing transactions and specializes in crossborder and multi-party structures, negotiation strategies, requests for proposals, service levels, benchmarking, termination strategies, dispute resolution and governance. Has more than 25 years of IT legal experience and frequently speaks and writes on outsourcing and other current commercial IT topics. Tel: (416) 862-6446 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto rcoleman@osler.com Michael Erdle Lawyer, Chartered Mediator and Chartered Arbitrator. His expertise includes Internet and electronic commerce; structuring technology enterprises; technology development, licensing and technology transfers; network agreements; privacy; and outsourcing. He has considerable experience with technology-related copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret issues. He has successfully mediated many technology and intellectual property disputes and has acted as arbitrator on both domestic and international commercial arbitrations. Currently a member of the Board of Directors of the ADR Institute of Ontario and the ADR Institute of Canada. He has been a director of the Canadian IT Law Association. Active member of the information technology and e-commerce section of the Ontario Bar Association, the International Technology Law Association and other professional and industry groups. He is a past president of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. He is a Registered Trade-mark Agent. Erdle was called to the Ontario Bar in 1988. Deeth Williams Wall LLP Tel: (416) 941-9201 Fax: (416) 941-9443 Toronto merdle@dww.com K. Vanessa A. Grant Vanessa Grant is a partner in the firm's Toronto office. Her practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity. She advises issuers, investors and underwriters on public and private financings (including venture capital financing); initial public offerings; public and private mergers & acquisitions; corporate governance; joint ventures; and licensing and distribution agreements. Grant provides ongoing general corporate and commercial legal advice to a number of clients and works with national and international clients across all industries, with a particular focus on technology and life sciences companies. She also represents private equity and venture capital funds investing in the technology and life sciences industries. Grant lectures regularly on topics related to mergers & acquisitions, securities law, corporate governance and industry specific issues. Grant is the Co-director of the Osgoode Hall LLM program in business law and teaches a course in securities regulation at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University. Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Tel: (416) 369-4666 Fax: (416) 862-7661 Toronto vanessa.grant@gowlings.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 127 D-00-Bios.indd 127 13-05-16 1:58 PM