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.
Issue link: https://digital.carswellmedia.com/i/138095
CORPORATE FINANCE & SECURITIES Steeve Robitaille Partner and head of the Corporate/Commercial Group in the Montréal office. Practices principally in public and private M&A and corporate finance. Advises on corporate governance matters. Included in The 2013 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; and The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013. Recognized by The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory as one of "40 Corporate Lawyers to Watch" in 2006 and as one of the "Top 40 Lawyers Under 40" in 2004. Recent M&A mandates include: Saputo's acquisition of Morningstar; Fibrek's defense mandate in connection with Resolute's hostile take-over bid; Genivar's combination with WSP; 20-20's privatization and sale to Vector; Transcontinental's acquisition of Quad Canada from, and sale of Transcontinental's Mexican operations to Quad. Recent corporate finance mandates include: secondary offerings by Jolina Capital of a portion of its interest in Saputo and TransForce; and underwriters' counsel in Uni-Select and Transforce public offerings. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (514) 397-3024 Fax: (514) 397-3624 Montréal srobitaille@stikeman.com André J. Roy Managing partner of the Montréal office, member of the Partnership Board and of the Executive Committee of the firm. Specializes in private and public financings, crossborder transactions, public and private M&A and corporate governance. His principal clients are in the communications, media, printing, soft ware, industrial and financial sectors. Recognized by The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory as a leading practitioner in Corporate Finance & Securities and M&A sectors. Also included in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013; The 2013 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; and the Lexpert® Leading Corporate Lawyers Special Edition, June 2012. He was named the Best Lawyers' 2011 Montréal Securities Law Lawyer of the Year. Member of the Québec, Canadian and American and International Bar Associations. Director, corporate secretary and legal counsel to Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation. Member of the Desautels Faculty Advisory Board at McGill University and was Director of the Board of a publicly listed TSX company for more than four years. Québec Bar (1981). Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (514) 397-3119 Fax: (514) 397-3429 Montréal aroy@stikeman.com Franziska Ruf Partner. Member of Capital Markets, Corporate Governance, M&A and China groups. Practice focuses on public and private M&A, corporate finance and privateequity and venture capital financings. Advises buyers, sellers and financial advisors in connection with Canadian and international public and private mergers & acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, as well as issuers and underwriters in connection with public offerings and private placements. Advises boards of directors, special committees, senior management and shareholders on a wide range of transactions, public disclosure issues and corporate governance matters. Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada, The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory in the areas of Corporate Commercial Law, Corporate Finance & Securities, Corporate Mid-Market, M&A and Private Equity. Member, Legal Advisory Committee of the Autorité des marchés financiers. Member, ABA; participates actively in the Committee on M&A of the ABA Section of Business Law. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (514) 841-6480 Fax: (514) 841-6499 Montréal fruf@dwpv.com Norman M. Steinberg, AdE Norton Rose Canada LLP Tel: (514) 847-4521 Fax: (514) 286-5474 Montréal Norman Steinberg is Global Chairman of Norton Rose, Chairman of Norton Rose Canada, Chair of Norton Rose supervisory board and ex officio member of Norton Rose Canada management committee. Specializes in M&A and corporate finance. Acted for Aeroplan for financing of Air Canada (C$600M); Alcan in its acquisition by Rio Tinto, biggest all cash take-over in Canadian history (C$38.1B); privatization of Four Seasons Hotels (C$3.7B), of Shell Canada by Royal Dutch Shell (C$8.7B); Domtar cross-border merger with fine paper assets of Weyerhaeuser, creating new Domtar (C$6B EV); special board counsel to TIW in sale of operating assets to Vodafone (C$4.4B); for Alcan in spin out of Novelis, creating largest rolling products company in the world (sales C$6B). Led many financings for issuers/underwriters including BCE, Bell Aliant, Domtar, Gildan, Wajax, Astral Media, Power. Profiled in Canadian Lawyer magazine as one of 2012 Top 25 Most Influential and in the 2012 Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers. Honorary title Advocatus Emeritus from the Québec Bar. Québec Bar 1976. norman.steinberg@nortonrose.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 85 D-00-Bios.indd 85 13-05-16 1:52 PM