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TECHNOLOGY TRANSACTIONS Geoffrey K. Taber Partner and a founder of the firm's Technology Business Group. Practices business law with an emphasis on private & public financings, M&A transactions and strategic commercial matters. Has been involved in more than one hundred venture capital financings and numerous public & private M&A transactions and also advises a range of emerging businesses and start-ups. Recent matters include advising Google Inc. in multiple acquisitions of Canadian technology businesses; a syndicate led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board in the $1.1-billion acquisition of Q9 Networks; SonoSite Inc. on its acquisition of VisualSonics, Inc.; InterTAN Canada (Circuit City's Canadian subsidiary) in its CCAA proceedings and the court-supervised sale of The Source by Circuit City to Bell. Advises The Next 36 (Canada's Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute) and the Creative Destruction Lab program at the Rotman School of Business. As Co-chair of the firm's Asia-Pacific initiative, and former managing partner of Osler's Singapore office, continues to advise Canadian multinationals on Asia-Pacific matters. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6614 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto gtaber@osler.com Amy-Lynne Williams Practices exclusively in the area of information technology law. A winner of a 2009 Lexpert ® Zenith Award, and named as Best Lawyers' "2013 Toronto Information Technology Lawyer of the Year," and "2012 Toronto Information Technology Lawyer of the Year," she is also listed in the Lexpert ® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Crossborder Corporate Lawyers in Canada and is a most frequently recommended technology lawyer in The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in Canada and is recommended as a "leading individual" under IT in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business. She advises on outsourcing, privacy, e-commerce and Internet issues, international and domestic agreements for systems, and technology transfers. Past president of the International Technology Law Association and of the Canadian IT Law Association (IT.Can) (2000 – 2002). She has testified as an expert witness on outsourcing agreements and has served as an arbitrator on an international arbitration panel dealing with an IT dispute. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1980. Deeth Williams Wall LLP Tel: (416) 941-9047 Fax: (416) 941-9443 Toronto awilliams@dww.com Thomas A. Houston Dentons Canada LLP Tel: (613) 783-9611 Fax: (613) 783-9690 Managing partner of the firm's Ottawa office and Chair of Dentons Canada LLP's National Technology Practice Group. Practice focuses on corporate and securities law, with particular emphasis on corporate governance and transactions relating to venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and private and public securities issues for technology companies, including IPOs. Extensive cross-border experience. Past part-time professor (Major Business Transactions; Securities Regulation), University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. Past instructor, Business Law Section, Bar Admission Course. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1980. LLB, 1978, and BComm (Hons), 1975, Queen's University. Ottawa tom.houston@dentons.com Elizabeth M. Walker Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Partner in the firm's technology business group and Managing Partner of the Ottawa office. Practices corporate and securities law with particular emphasis on corporate finance, M&A and governance issues affecting the technology sector. Extensive experience in representing technology companies and investors in technology companies in both private and public cross-border equity and debt financings, and in providing to clients innovative structuring solutions to facilitate such financings. Advises a wide range of technology business clients regarding Canadian and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and other business combinations. Awarded Ottawa Technology "Lawyer of the Year" 2012 by Best Lawyers. Member of the CBA. LLB, University of Ottawa, 1986; BCL, Oxford University, 1987. Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1989. Tel: (613) 787-1060 Fax: (613) 235-2867 Ottawa ewalker@osler.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 129 D-00-Bios.indd 129 13-05-23 12:16 PM