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www.lexpert.ca 21 www.lexpert.ca 21 Lexpert-ranked leading health sciences lawyers Maidment, Scott McMillan LLP > (416) 865-7911 scott.maidment@mcmillan.ca Scott Maidment is one of Canada's leading litigation counsel, and he has appeared before trial and appellate courts across the country. Scott is recognized in Canada and abroad as one of the world's top product liability lawyers, and he is known especially for his work in class actions and complex cases, particularly for companies in the life sciences and pharmaceuticals industry. His extensive class action experience includes successful defence of significant class actions in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Québec and British Columbia. His trial and appellate practice has also covered a wide range of other legal disputes in a number of economic sectors. He has conducted trials, arbitrations, applications and appeals involving issues of contract, competition law, negligence, insurance law, defamation, employment law, real estate, constitutional law, human rights and transportation law. Scott has served as an adjunct professor of Trial Advocacy at Osgoode Hall Law School and has taught trial advocacy for e Advocates' Society, the Attorney General of Canada and the United Nations. He is currently the president of e Advocates' Society. Ritchie, Allan J. Loopstra Nixon LLP > (416) 748-4754 aritchie@loonix.com Allan Ritchie is the managing partner of Loopstra Nixon LLP and global chairman of LawExchange International, a network of more than 2,000 lawyers in 34 offices around the world. He also leads the cross-border practice at LN, focusing on all aspects of international and domestic corporate and M&A advisory work. He is a trusted advisor to many of Canada's most success- ful multi-generational entrepreneurial families as well as general corporate counsel to some of Canada's largest privately held businesses. He is sought aer by financial institutions to lead their cross-border initiatives and is a go-to counsel for interna- tional private capital players making acquisitions in Canada. Allan led the expansion of his firm into the United States with the opening of satellite offices in Buffalo and New York City in 2017. He has received numerous accolades for his work in both Canada and the U.S. In 2020, he was awarded the Ontario Bar Association's award for Excellence in International Business Law as well as being named to the Buffalo Law Journal's 'Legal Elite' list of the most influential lawyers in Western New York. Allan led the development of Loopstra Nixon's talent development framework, which has been adapted and rolled out in numerous other law firms around the world. Rosen, Lonny J. Rosen Sunshine LLP > (416) 572-4901 rosen@rosensunshine.com Lonny J. Rosen, C.S. is a founding partner of the Toronto regulatory and health law boutique Rosen Sunshine LLP. Certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Health Law, he advises professionals, regulators, health-care providers, profes- sional associations and individuals. Lonny represents clients in civil and administrative proceedings, including in complaint and discipline matters, investigations, audits and peer reviews, in hospital privileges matters and in hearings before various tribunals. He serves as independent legal counsel to numerous college discipline committees. Lonny advises on privacy law, assisting clients in managing breaches and responding to complaints. He is a member of the Consent and Capacity Board. An adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, he teaches health law. He served as chairman of the Health Law Sections of the Ontario and Canadian Bar Associations and as a director of e Advocates' Society. Lonny was named to Best Lawyers in Canada for Health Care Law for each year since 2014. He is included in Who's Who Legal as a Global Leader in Health Care Law and ranked in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. In 2016, Lonny was the inaugural recipient of the OBA Susan Hilary Davidson Memorial Award for Excellence in Health Law. Ritacca, Luisa Stockwoods LLP > (416) 593-2492 luisar@stockwoods.ca Luisa's practice encompasses a wide variety of areas, including administrative law and civil and commercial litigation. Luisa has been a partner since 2006 and a member of the firm's management committee since 2008. In 2018, Luisa became managing partner. In February 2016, Luisa received an Order-in-Council appointment as a part-time member of the Licence Appeal Tribunal. Luisa is counsel for the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports and has appeared on a number of anti-doping cases over the last several years. In addition, Luisa acts for students facing academic and non-academic related charges at secondary and post-secondary institutions throughout Ontario. Further, Luisa acts as independent legal counsel for a number of regulated health colleges, hospitals and administrative tribunals throughout the province. In that role, Luisa provides substantive and procedural advice during hearings as well as ongoing training for adjudicators. In 2013, Luisa was appointed by former Chief Justice Warren Winkler to act as court monitor in the administration of two pan-Canadian settlements involving the tainted blood scandal, as well as the settlement involving water contamination in Walkerton, Ont. LAWYER TO WATCH

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