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Pincus, Stephen N., Goodmans LLP Toronto - (416) 597-4104 - spincus@goodmans.ca
Partner, Executive Committee member and head of the firm's capital markets practice. Well-known for
leadership of many complex and innovative domestic and cross-border transactions including: Canada's
first SPAC qualifying acquisition, the formation of its largest healthcare REIT, the global roll-up of 11
media content companies, its largest investment bank merger in more than a decade, its first cross-border
income fund, the buyout of its largest funeral homes company and the first non-US IPO in the world of a US
REIT. Advises boards of directors and activist shareholders on corporate governance and proxy fights. Was
retained by Industry Canada to lead a major governance study. Director of Kew Media Group Inc., founding
Chairman and a Director of the Canada Africa Chamber of Business, co-Chair of SenbridGe, member of
the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, member of the Canadian General Counsel Awards
Advisory Board and member of the Corporate and Securities Advisory Board of Practical Law – Canada.
Has an MBA/LLB (Gold Medalist) and an ICD.D.
Lexpert Ranking: MFR
Allard, David A., Lawson Lundell LLP Vancouver - (604) 631-9108 - dallard@lawsonlundell.com
David Allard practices primarily in the areas of mergers & acquisitions and corporate and commercial law,
in a wide variety of industry sectors. He has extensive experience advising private and public company clients
on purchase and sale transactions, strategic alliances and major and general corporate commercial matters,
as well as corporate governance issues. His major representative transactional work includes the sale and pur-
chase of numerous large scale manufacturing and processing operations and businesses; multijurisdictional
structured sale transactions; private equity and venture capital investments; early to late stage growth financ-
ings and corporate restructurings. David is recognized in Chambers Canada, e Best Lawyers in Canada,
e Canadian Lexpert® Directory and in e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers
in Canada. David has an LLB from the University of British Columbia and a BCL from Oxford University
and is a member of the British Columbia Bar (1987).
Lexpert Ranking: MFR
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Balfour, Richard J., Torys LLP
Barbeau, Marc B., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Bentley, Ross, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Bradley, Noralee M., Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Braithwaite, William J., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Buckingham, Janice, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Castiel, Peter, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Ciardullo, John J., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Cockburn, Matthew, Torys LLP
Corbett, Leland P., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Cusinato, Curtis, Bennett Jones LLP
Fraiberg, Jeremy D., Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Girvan, Garth (Gary) M., McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Godber, H. John, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Guindi, Shahir, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Horn, Samantha G., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Horn, Sidney M., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Hughes, Randal T., Bennett Jones LLP
Katz, Warren M., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Lamonde, Sophie, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Leopold, John W., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Lloyd, Jeffrey R., Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Maguire, Patrick T., Bennett Jones LLP
Mercier, Vincent A., Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Nixon, Christopher W., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Olasker, Patricia L., Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Paré, Robert, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Pressman, Emmanuel, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Pukier, Brian M., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Quesnel, Alicia K., Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP
Romano, Simon A., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Rusaw, Cameron M., Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Singer, Jeffrey, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Schneider, Chad, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Shishler, Melanie A., Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Singer, Jeffrey, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Stein, Paul M., Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Story, Craig A., Stikeman Elliott LLP
Turcotte, Maxime, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Turner, John S.M., Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Waitzer, Edward J., Stikeman Elliott LLP
