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Gropper, Mitchell H., QC, Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP Vancouver - (604) 661-9322 - mgropper@farris.com
Senior partner Mitchell Gropper, QC, has an extensive corporate and securities practice with emphasis on
complex transactions including corporate finance, reorganizations, M&A and advice to board of direc-
tors. He has developed innovative financing structures, including income funds and stapled securities and
has represented issuers and others in IPOs and public/private securities offerings. Mitchell has advised on
financial reorganizations and debt restructurings, including special legal advisor to City of Vancouver for
the Olympic Village and several reorganization transactions for Concord Pacific Group, Onni Development
and A&W Restaurants. He was named in e 2018 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500
Lawyers in Canada and e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2018. He has a Martindale-Hubbell ranking
AV (preeminent 5.0 out of 5). Mitchell is admitted to the Bar of British Columbia (1966) and was appointed
Queen's Counsel (1990).
Lexpert Ranking: MFR
Halperin, Stephen H., Goodmans LLP Toronto - (416) 597-4115 - shalperin@goodmans.ca
Counsel aer more than 30 years as a partner. Focuses on transactional corporate/securities law, domestic/
international corporate finance, M&A and corporate governance including activist shareholders matters.
Lead counsel, Pan-Canadian Investors Committee for ird Party ABCP Restructuring (2007–09). High-
est ranking for past 17 years for corporate/M&A by Chambers. Selected 3 times as Toronto Corporate Law-
yer of the Year (most recently in 2019), 4 times as Toronto Corporate Governance Lawyer of the Year and
was selected as Toronto M&A Lawyer of the Year in 2017 by Best Lawyers in Canada. Named by Euromoney
as one of the top 30 leading capital markets, M&A/corporate governance lawyers in the world in its Best of
the Best series (the only Canadian selected in all 3 categories). Highest ranking in every edition of e Cana-
dian Legal Lexpert Directory since inception. Described by Who's Who Legal as "one of the finest lawyers in
the world" in M&A in its 2016 Global M&A Survey, which ranked him as the only Canadian
on its list of 7 Most Highly Regarded North American M&A practitioners.
Lexpert Ranking: MFR
Lampe, Jonathan, Goodmans LLP Toronto - (416) 597-4128 - jlampe@goodmans.ca
Partner and past Co-Chair of the Corporate/Securities Group at Goodmans. Advises Canadian and
international clients on M&A, strategic relationships, financings, dissident shareholder activities, gover-
nance, regulatory matters and investigations. Former Ontario Securities Commission General Counsel. Past
Chair, OSC Securities Advisory Committee and past member of OSC Enforcement Advisory Committee.
Clients include CI Financial, Four Seasons, Grupo Bal, HudBay, Manulife, Newmont, Spectra, family of-
fices, pension funds and private equity investors including Ontario Teachers' and various investment banks.
Represented OSC staff and market participants in enforcement and transactional regulatory proceedings.
Regularly recognized as one of the most highly regarded legal advisors in M&A, corporate governance, cor-
porate finance and capital markets, mining and private equity, by publications including Lexpert, Chambers,
Euromoney, IFLR, Legal 500 Canada, Who's Who Legal and e Best Lawyers in Canada. Appointed as an
Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University in 2016.
Lexpert Ranking: MFR
May, Neill I., Goodmans LLP Toronto - (416) 597-4187 - nmay@goodmans.ca
Partner, Co-Chair of the Corporate Securities Group and a member of the Executive Committee at Good-
mans. Broad base of experience in corporate/securities law, with particular emphasis on mergers & acquisi-
tions, governance and proxy matters, public and private financings (domestic and cross-border), private
equity and business restructurings. Actively involved in mining and Asian market practice areas. Recognized
as a leading lawyer in his areas of practice by e Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, e Lexpert/American
Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Canada, Chambers Global, Who's Who
Legal, Euromoney, IFLR 1000, and e Best Lawyers in Canada. Former member of the Toronto Stock Ex-
change Listing Advisory Committee, the Ontario Securities Commission's Securities Advisory Committee
and Small Business Advisory Committee. Former Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty
of Law. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1992.
Lexpert Ranking: MFR
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