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CORPORATE FINANCE & SECURITIES Sharon C. Geraghty Partner in Torys' Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. Emphasis on M&A, corporate governance and securities law. Listed in The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Woodward White's The Best Lawyers in Canada and Chambers Global. Acts for two of Canada's leading financial institutions and one of Canada's largest communications/media companies. Acted for TMX Group in its proposed US$6.9-billion merger with LSE Group and the competing successful takeover bid by Maple Group; ArcelorMittal in its new joint venture arrangements for Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation; Rogers Communications in its acquisition of Score Media; Manulife Financial in its $2.5-billion equity offering in 2009, $2.275-billion equity offering in 2008 and $2-billion credit facility; National Bank Financial in its acquisitions of Wellington Financial and HSBC Securities; the special committee of Minera Andes in its merger with US Gold; and CanWest Global in its take-over bid for WIC and the subsequent division of WIC's assets among its key shareholders; LLB, 1986, University of British Columbia. Ontario Bar, 1988. Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-8138 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto sgeraghty@torys.com Jeff Glass Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Jeff Glass practices in the firm's Investment Products & Asset Management Group, advising leading investment dealers, financial institutions, asset management companies and senior issuers on public financings, merger and acquisition transactions and securities regulatory matters. Glass has leading expertise in the structuring, distribution and regulation of listed and unlisted structured products. He has been recognized in The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, The Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Lawyers, The Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Investment Funds Lawyers, Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada, the PLC Cross-border Capital Markets Handbook, the PLC Cross-border Investment Funds Handbook, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and The Best Lawyers in Canada as one of Canada's leading capital markets lawyers. Tel: (416) 863-4162 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto jeff.glass@blakes.com Stephen H. Halperin Member, Executive Committee. Co-chair of corporate/securities group. Lead counsel, Pan-Canadian Investors Committee for third-party ABCP Restructuring (2007 ‒ 9). Highest ranking for past nine years for corporate/M&A by Chambers Global. Named "Toronto Corporate Governance Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers and one of top 25 capital markets lawyers worldwide in Euromoney's The Best of the Best. Representative clients/matters: Canadian Tire in acquisition of Forzani Group; Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in acquisitions of Timothy's and Van Houtte, TOTAL in acquisition of UTS Energy; Norilsk Nickel in acquisition of LionOre Mining; Avion Group in acquisition of Atlas Cold Storage; Fortress Investment in acquisition of Intrawest; Royal Group Technologies, in response to Cerberus's unsolicited bid and sale to Georgia Gulf; Hummingbird in acquisition by Open Text; Mackenzie Financial in response to CI Fund Management's hostile bid and sale to Investors Group; Abitibi-Consolidated in acquisition of Donohue; and Schneider in response to hostile bid by Maple Leaf and sale to Smithfield. Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-4115 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Toronto shalperin@goodmans.ca Christopher A. Hewat Partner, Securities Group, Toronto. Practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and private-equity transactions. M&A experience includes advising The Brick on its sale to Leon's; TransGlobe Apartment REIT on its sale to a consortium led by Starlight Investments Ltd.; Cliffs Natural Resources in its acquisition of Consolidated Thompson and contested acquisitions of Spider Resources and Freewest Resources; and Certicom in its defense of Research In Motion's unsolicited take-over bid. Extensive experience in public offerings includes IPOs by Capital Power and NexJ Systems and cross-border offerings by Teck Resources, Progressive Waste Solutions and Research In Motion. Private-equity experience includes advising Macquarie Capital on its investment in the Advantage Rent A Car business of Hertz, and a syndicate led by Fairfax in the recapitalization of MEGA Brands. Recognized in Chambers Global, IFLR1000, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and The Best Lawyers in Canada. LLB, MBA, University of Western Ontario, 1985. Admitted to Ontario Bar in 1987. Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (416) 863-2761 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto chris.hewat@blakes.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 75 D-00-Bios.indd 75 13-05-16 1:51 PM