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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CORPORATE FINANCE & SECURITIES Jeff Barnes Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Member of BLG's Securities & Capital Markets Group. Practices principally in M&A, corporate governance and board advice, mining, debt and equity financings, restructurings, reorganizations, privatizations, infrastructure, energy and project finance. Member, Senior Legal Advisory Committee to the Chair, OSC. Former Chair, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Co-chair, Canada Committee of ABA International; and Vice Chair, International Energy and Natural Resources Committee, ABA Section of International Law. Former member of the Securities Advisory Committee to the OSC. Also recognized in, among others, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory in areas including corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and project finance. Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013. Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1976. Tel: (416) 367-6720 Fax: (416) 361-7089 Toronto jbarnes@blg.com Joel E. Binder Partner in the Toronto office with significant experience in complex corporate finance, M&A and transactional work. Represents issuers, investment dealers, bidders and targets in connection with public offerings, take-over bids, business combinations and restructurings. He is often retained for his expertise in investment trusts and other retail structured products. Also advises private companies on mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance and public companies on governance and securities compliance matters. Recognized by Lexpert® for Corporate Finance & Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Commercial Law, Investment Funds & Asset Management and Private Equity. Listed in International Financial Law Review's IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms; The Best Lawyers in Canada and the 2013 Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada. Member of the Canadian Bar Association, The Law Society of Upper Canada and the firm's Toronto Management Committee. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5233 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto jbinder@stikeman.com William J. Braithwaite Chair of the firm and member of the Executive Committee and Partnership Board. Practices primarily in M&A and corporate finance and has acted on some of the most significant cross-border merger transactions. Represents a wide range of corporations, boards of directors, bankers and institutional shareholders, and advises governments and regulatory authorities on policy and other initiatives. Recognized in International Financial Law Review's IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms as a leading lawyer in M&A; The Best Lawyers in Canada in corporate, M&A, and securities law, and named the 2013 Toronto Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year and the 2012 Toronto Securities Law Lawyer of the Year; the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory. Was counsel to the IDA Task Force that examined the modernization of Canada's securities legislation. Past Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission. Special lecturer in Osgoode Hall's part-time LLM program. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5654 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto wbraithwaite@stikeman.com Matthew Cockburn Practices corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. Acts for a wide variety of private-equity firms, advising on management buyouts and leveraged buyouts of public and private companies. Regularly advises acquirors and targets in connection with public take-over bids, plans of arrangement, and private acquisitions and divestitures. Also has extensive experience in the corporate finance area, including advising issuers and underwriters on public and private offerings of debt and equity securities. Regularly represents CPPIB, Ontario Teachers', OMERS Private Equity, Torquest Partners, Clairvest and Birch Hill Equity Partners, among others. Listed as a leading lawyer in corporate securities, private equity and M&A by various publications, including Woodward White's The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013 and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2012. Recognized by Lexpert® as one of Canada's top 40 under 40 lawyers. LLB, 1993, University of Toronto; BA (Honors), 1989, Queen's University. Ontario Bar, 1995. Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7662 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto mcockburn@torys.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 73 D-00-Bios.indd 73 13-05-29 1:00 PM