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 Douglas R. Marshall Partner and Co-chair of the Corporate Practice Group consisting of approximately 130 lawyers in the firm's offices in Canada and New York practicing in a number of areas including Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance. Doug Marshall advises public and private companies on M&A, financing and corporate/governance matters. His M&A experience includes public take-over bids, share and asset acquisitions and divestitures, privatizations and corporate restructurings. His financing experience includes domestic and cross-border public and private offerings of equity and debt, initial public offerings and other securities offerings and monetizations. Clients on whose behalf Marshall acts or has acted carry on business in the financial services, telecommunications, real estate, mining, technology, pharmaceutical, newspaper and media sectors. Marshall has lectured on securities law, mergers & acquisitions and corporate governance matters at universities and private conferences. Marshall is a former member of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-4218 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto T F dmarshall@osler.com Neill I. May Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-4187 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Partner and co-head of one of Goodmans' business law groups. Broad base of experience in corporate/securities law, with particular emphasis on mergers & acquisitions, public and private financings (domestic and cross-border), private-equity and business restructurings. Recognized as a leading lawyer in his areas of practice by The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global, PLC, Euromoney, IFLR, and The Best Lawyers in Canada. Member of the Toronto Stock Exchange Listing Advisory Committee and a former member of the Ontario Securities Commission's Securities Advisory Committee and the Small Business Advisory Committee. Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1992. Toronto T F nmay@goodmans.ca D. Shawn McReynolds Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Practices M&A, corporate and securities law with an emphasis on advising public companies and the securities industry. Has represented issuers and underwriters in numerous public and private financings, including initial public offerings, acquirors, targets, controlling shareholders and committees of independent directors in mergers & acquisitions. Advises public companies and institutional investors on corporate governance issues. Former Chairman of the Securities Advisory Committee to the OSC. Taught securities regulation at McGill University and Osgoode Hall Law School. Included in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. LLB, McGill. Admitted to Ontario Bar in 1984. Tel: (416) 863-5538 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto T F smcreynolds@dwpv.com Vincent A. Mercier Practice focuses on public company and private-equity M&A and securities. Represents acquirors, targets, controlling shareholders and committees of independent directors in both public company and private acquisitions, including hostile take-over bids; and advises public companies on corporate governance issues, including proxy contests. Acted for Maple Group in its $3.8-billion acquisition of TMX Group (named deal of the year for 2012 by Lexpert®). Acted for Shaw in its $2-billion acquisition of Canwest; Schlumberger in its $700-million acquisition of Saxon Energy Services; Reuters in its dual-listed company merger transaction with Thomson Corporation, the first of its kind in Canada; and Agricore United in its response to hostile take-over bid from Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. Acted for Petro Kazakhstan in its auction process leading to its acquisition by China's CNPC International Ltd for US$4.2-billion; Wheaton River in its $2.3-billion merger with Goldcorp; and for Clarica in its sale to Sun Life for $7.1-billion. Named one of Canada's top 40 lawyers under 40 by Lexpert® (2002). Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5579 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto vmercier@dwpv.com 78 | LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca D-00-Bios.indd 78 13-05-16 1:51 PM T F