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CORPORATE FINANCE & SECURITIES Curtis Cusinato Partner and Head of the Corporate Department in Stikeman Elliott's Toronto office. Practices corporate and securities law with an emphasis on domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged and management buyouts and private-equity transactions. Clients include Canadian, US and foreign public, private and multinational companies representing a broad range of industries, investment and merchant banks, private-equity firms, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds. Experienced in a variety of commercial and corporate finance matters, including public offerings, restructurings, reorganizations, joint ventures, and debt and equity financings. Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada, The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms, and was named in "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" by Lexpert® in 2006. He is a former Co-chair of the M&A/Private Equity Group and serves on the Toronto Management Committee. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5221 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto T F ccusinato@stikeman.com J. Mark DesLauriers Senior partner in the firm's Corporate & Securities Practice Group. Focuses on corporate finance transactions, financial services regulation, capital markets regulation and public company law. Advises Canadian and foreign investment banks, asset managers, public corporations, investment funds and institutional investors on domestic and cross-border transactions as well as significant regulatory matters. Representative work includes advising the Canadian Securities Transition Office on proposed derivatives regulations; a global investment bank on the launch of a Canadian alternative trading system; the controlling shareholder in the Mitel IPO; the underwriters in the Genworth Financial Canada and Capital Power IPOs; the Special Committee in the Fairfax acquisition of the Northbridge minority; Macquarie in its acquisition of Blackmont Capital; Kensington Capital on its IPO of a global private equity fund of funds. Past Chair of the practitioners' advisory committee to the OSC. Special counsel to the Canadian Securities Administrators on the development of SEDAR. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6709 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto B T F mdeslauriers@osler.com Jeremy D. Fraiberg G Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Co-chair of Osler's Mining Group. Practice focuses on corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance. Has acted for public and private companies and investment bankers on a range of acquisitions, securities offerings and other corporate transactions. Was a senior policy advisor to the Wise Persons' Committee, which was appointed to recommend the best securities regulatory system for Canada. Has taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law on contested mergers and proxy contests and has spoken and written about a range of legal issues. After graduating from law school, served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer at the Supreme Court of Canada. Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 2000. Tel: (416) 862-6505 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto T F jfraiberg@osler.com Jean M. Fraser Jean Fraser advises public and private companies, investment dealers and governments on corporate, financing and M&A matters. Her M&A experience includes public takeover bids, asset acquisitions and divestures, privatizations and corporate restructurings. Fraser's experience also includes advisory assignments providing governance advice to the boards of directors and board committees of public companies. Her financing experience includes domestic and cross-border public and private offerings of debt and equity, initial public offerings and infrastructure financings. Fraser has written and lectured on both securities and corporate law matters in various forums and is a member of the Senior Securities Advisory Group to the Chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission and a past member of the Ontario Securities Commission Policy Advisory Committee. She is recognized in numerous legal publications as a leading Canadian M&A, corporate governance and corporate finance specialist. Fraser is also a former managing partner of the firm. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6537 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto jfraser@osler.com 74 | LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca D-00-Bios.indd 74 13-05-16 1:51 PM C B T F