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LAWYERS TO WATCH Pierre-Yves Leduc Partner in the Corporate/Commercial Law Group with significant experience in a wide range of corporate and securities transactions with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests and corporate finance transactions. Assignments have included acting as counsel to issuers and underwriters in public offerings and private placements. He has advised on numerous take-over bids and going-private transactions of publicly listed issuers. He advises on corporate governance matters as well. During 2004, Leduc practiced law in Stikeman Elliott's London office. He is a member of the office's Student and Stagiaire Committee, as well as the Business Development Committee. He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association. He has written and spoken extensively in his areas of expertise including: duties of Directors and Officers, corporate governance, corporate law and securities law. Called to the Québec Bar in 1999. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (514) 397-3696 Fax: (514) 397-3596 T F pyleduc@stikeman.com Dion J. Legge Norton Rose Canada LLP Tel: (403) 267-9438 Fax: (403) 264-5973 Dion Legge practices in the area of tax law. His practice focuses on the income tax aspects of corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, take-overs, debt and equity financings, and the taxation of flow-through vehicles. He also advises on tax-structuring and tax-planning issues related to international structures for Canadianbased multinational corporations, investments by foreign enterprises in Canada, and structuring cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and financings. Legge regularly advises clients in the energy sector, including PETRONAS, Crescent Point Energy Corp. and a special committee of trustees of Enbridge Commercial Trust. T F dion.legge@nortonrose.com Signe B. Leisk E B Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP Partner — Municipal, Planning & Environmental. Practice encompasses all aspects of municipal, land use planning and environmental law, including expropriations and proceedings under the Building Code Act. Extensive experience representing both private-sector builders and developers as well as municipalities and public institutions. Appears regularly before the Ontario Municipal Board and the courts. Author of numerous articles on municipal and planning law and co-author of three leading texts: Municipal and Planning Law in Canada, 2nd edition, published by Thomson Carswell, Canadian Forms & Precedents-Municipal Law, published by LexisNexis Butterworths, and Canadian Forms & Precedents – Land Development, also published by LexisNexis Butterworths. Awarded the inaugural Precedent Setter Award by Precedent magazine in 2010 for excellence and leadership in her practice. Called to the Ontario Bar in 2002. Tel: (416) 869-5411 Fax: (416) 640-3218 T F sleisk@casselsbrock.com Natasha MacParland Partner in the Corporate/Commercial and Financial Restructuring & Insolvency practices. Experience in corporate and commercial law, with an emphasis on debt restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate debtor/creditor rights enforcement, turnarounds, work-outs, plans of arrangement under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, and proposals and bankruptcies under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. Provides strategic advice and risk analysis on deal structuring and lending, and has worked on various aspects of many significant and groundbreaking restructurings and insolvencies. Member of the Turnaround Management Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, International Insolvency Association, INSOL, International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation and the OBA Insolvency Law Section's Programs Committee. Named in 2012 as one of Lexpert® 's "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers under 40," recognized in Chambers Global in the area of Restructuring & Insolvency and achieved one of Martindale-Hubbell's highest rankings. Called to the Ontario Bar (1999) and Newfoundland Bar (1998). Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5567 Fax: (416) 863-0871 nmacparland@dwpv.com 140 | LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca E-00-Lawyers to Watch.indd 140 13-05-23 12:17 PM T F