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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Pat C. Finnerty Practice focuses on domestic and cross-border M&A and public and private offerings. Recent transactions: sale of Nexen to CNOOC for US$17 billion; sale of Forzani Group to Canadian Tire for US$771 million; MEG Energy's US$700-million IPO; UTS Energy's successful defense of Total's unsolicited take-over bid and subsequent friendly sale to Total; Forzani Group's successful defense of Crescendo's proxy contest; sale of Saxon Energy Services to First Reserve and Schlumberger; Agrium's acquisition of UAP for $2.6 billion and related cross-border $1.375-billion equity offering; Nexen's acquisition of EnCana's North Sea assets for $2.1 billion. Member: Legal Advisory Committee to Canadian Securities Transition Office. Recognized in Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers and M&A Lawyers, PLC Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook, Global Counsel 3000, Chambers Global, and Lexpert® 's "Canada's Top 30 Dealmakers." Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (403) 260-9608 Fax: (403) 260-9700 Calgary pcf@blakes.com Brock W. Gibson Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Chairman of the firm and partner in the M&A/securities group. Practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and energy transactions. Recognized as one of the leading lawyers in Canada: The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013; Chambers Global 2012: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (corporate/M&A); The 2013 Lexpert®/ American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Commercial Law and Mergers & Acquisitions); IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms ‒ 2012 Edition (capital markets); The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2012 (Corporate Commercial Law, Corporate Finance & Securities, Energy [Oil & Gas], Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity); Law Business Research's International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2012 (capital markets, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions and oil & gas). Tel: (403) 260-9610 Fax: (403) 260-9700 Calgary C F brock.gibson@blakes.com Christopher W. Nixon Christopher Nixon is a partner in Stikeman Elliott's Securities Group in Calgary and head of the national China Coverage Group. His practice focuses on business law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, joint ventures, corporate and trust reorganizations and corporate governance. His practice involves both transactional and advisory assignments, representing, among others, oil and gas exploration entities, oilfield service entities and investment dealers in Canada, the US, Europe and Asia. He is recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada in the areas of Corporate Finance, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity, M&A and Securities Law; Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business for Corporate/M&A; The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/ Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada; and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory. Called to the Alberta Bar in 1980. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (403) 266-9017 Fax: (403) 266-7807 Calgary F cnixon@stikeman.com C F 118 | LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca D-00-Bios.indd 118 13-05-16 1:57 PM