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BANKING AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS Michael K. Feldman Torys LLP Head of Torys' Structural Finance and Securitization Group. Practices corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on structured asset-backed financing, securitization, corporate finance, secured lending, aircraft financing and derivatives. Works on structuring transactions involving the securitization of numerous asset classes, including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans and leases, personal lines of credit, credit cards and trade receivables. Represented TD Bank on its acquisition of MBNA Canada Bank's credit card portfolio and on Canadian aspects of its acquisition of Chrysler Financial and BDC in connection with the design and implementation of the $12-billion Canadian Secured Credit Facility to invest in term ABS backed by auto and equipment loans and leases. Ontario Bar, 1984. New York Bar, 2001. Tel: (416) 865-7513 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto mfeldman@torys.com Peter E. Hamilton Partner practicing extensively in the areas of banking and corporate finance with particular emphasis on corporate finance, project finance, the regulation of financial institutions, derivatives, structured finance and insolvency. Recognized in numerous publications, including International Financial Law Review's IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms for Banking and Financial Services Regulatory Law; The Best Lawyers in Canada for Corporate and Derivatives Law; Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business for Banking and Finance: Financial Services; and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory for Banking & Financial Institutions, Derivative Instruments and Financial Institutions Regulation. Former lecturer on banking law at both Queen's University and Osgoode Hall Law School. Has spoken at numerous conferences on banking and insolvency-related issues and has been a principal speaker at Queen's University Business Law Symposium. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5564 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto phamilton@stikeman.com Michael R. Harquail Michael Harquail is the practice group leader of the firm's Financial Services Group. He advises a wide range of financial institutions and corporate clients on corporate lending, debt restructuring and general corporate matters. Harquail has extensive experience in structuring and documenting domestic financing transactions, crossborder financing transactions, syndications, acquisition financings, asset-based financings, project financings, high-yield offerings, subordinated debt arrangements and structured finance. He also has extensive experience in buying and selling businesses and in structuring shareholder arrangements. Harquail has advised lenders and borrowers in financing transactions across a wide range of industries and sectors, including aerospace, agriculture, automotive, energy, financial services, general manufacturing, health care, mining, pulp and paper, retail, steel, technology, telecommunications and transportation. Harquail has been an instructor for the practice skills portion of The Law Society of Upper Canada's Bar Admission Course. Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (416) 863-2929 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto michael.harquail@blakes.com Scott R. Hyman Partner practicing in the banking, project finance and structured finance areas, including derivatives and structured products, with an emphasis on derivatives products, merchant banking, secured lending and financial institutions regulation. Acting for investors purchasing derivatives products and other structured instruments, for lenders and borrowers in all types of debt finance, and for arrangers in the development of structured products. Included in Lexpert® 's "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" (2004 & 2006); The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada in the area of Derivative Structures; The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory in the areas of Banking & Financial Institutions, Corporate Finance & Securities and Derivative Instruments; Chambers Global in the area of Banking & Finance; IFLR1000 in the area of Bank Lending; Who's Who Legal: Canada in the area of Banking; and The Best Lawyers in Canada in the areas of Derivatives and Structured Finance. BA, University of Toronto; LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School; LLM, Osgoode Hall Law School. Called to Ontario Bar in 1993. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5581 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto shyman@dwpv.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 57 D-00-Bios.indd 57 13-05-16 1:48 PM