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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FRANCHISING LAW/INSOLVENCY & FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING Frank Zaid Partner and founding Chair of Osler Franchise and Distribution Group. Practices business law emphasizing strategic franchise structuring, relationship, expansion and alternate dispute resolution. Has advised many of Canada's and the world's leading franchise organizations and a director of several franchise organizations. Listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada (Best Franchise Lawyer in Toronto, 2010), International Who's Who of Franchise Lawyers (among most highly regarded individuals in the world) and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (most frequently recommended franchise lawyer in Canada). Co-chair of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada project on a uniform franchise law. Frequent speaker, author, panelist and expert witness on Canadian and international franchise law matters. Founding Chair, OBA Franchise Section; past General Counsel, CFA; past Chair, Supplier Forum, IFA. Managing editor, Canadian Franchise Guide (Carswell). Author, Franchise Law (Irwin Law). Chair of franchise alternate dispute resolution panel of ADR Chambers. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6415 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto fzaid@osler.com Leonard H. Polsky Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Leonard H. Polsky is a partner in Gowlings' Vancouver office, practicing in the areas of domestic and international franchising, licensing, product distribution, dealerships and intellectual property (principally in trade-marks and copyrights). Polsky is the Past Chair of Gowlings' Franchise and Distribution Law Practice Group and the past Head of the Gowlings' Vancouver Office Intellectual Property Department. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the International Franchising Committee of the International Bar Association, as well as being the Associate Editor of The International Journal of Franchising Law and a member of the Editorial Board of the Franchise and Distribution Journal. Polsky has practiced law in British Columbia since 1971 and as a Registered Canadian Trade-Mark Agent since 1972. He is a frequent author and speaker on domestic and international franchising. Tel: (604) 443-7627 Fax: (604) 683-3558 Vancouver leonard.polsky@gowlings.com INSOLVENCY & FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING Scott A. Bomhof Partner in Torys' Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. Listed in Chambers Global, ILFR1000; The Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Insolvency & Restructuring; The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading 100 Canada/US Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers; and PLC's Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook. Recognized by Lexpert® as one of Canada's "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" and among the Top 500 Lawyers in Canada (2012). Representing Nortel Networks Inc. and US Debtors in the Nortel CCAA proceedings; National Bank of Canada on the Asset Backed Commercial Paper restructuring; Brookfield Asset Management and certain of its affiliates in the restructuring of Fraser Papers Inc. and the sale of key operating assets to Brookfield and Twin Rivers; restructuring of United Airlines; and cross-border CCAA proceedings for Destinator Technologies. Has presented papers and/or chaired LSUC, CI, II, OBA, Insolvency Institute of Canada and Osgoode Professional Development conferences. Currently Ontario editor of Commercial Insolvency Reporter. Ontario Bar, 1995. Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7370 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto sbomhof@torys.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 105 D-00-Bios.indd 105 13-05-16 1:55 PM