The Lexpert Special Editions profiles selected Lexpert-ranked lawyers whose focus is in Corporate, Infrastructure, Energy and Litigation law and relevant practices. It also includes feature articles on legal aspects of Canadian business issues.
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Dellelce, Perry N. Wildeboer Dellelce LLP > (416) 361-5899 perry@wildlaw.ca Perry is a founder and managing partner of Wildeboer Dellelce LLP, one of Canada's premier corporate, securities, and business transactions law firms. Perry practises in the areas of securities, corporate finance, and mergers & acquisitions. Perry offers a unique blend of legal and corporate finance experience combined with hands-on business management experience across a wide range of sectors including mining and natural resources, technology, and financial services. Perry is the Chair of the NEO Exchange and a Director of Mount Logan Capital Inc. He is extremely involved in the commu- nity and charity. His current mandates include being past Chair and current member of the Board of Directors of the Sunnybrook Foundation and the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Olympic Foundation. Perry has been recognized by Lexpert® as a Repeatedly Recommended lawyer and as one of Canada's leading practitioners in the area of Technology Transactions in e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory. Perry is also included in the Lexpert® Special Edition – Leading Canadian Lawyers in Global Mining. Guertin, Catherine Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (514) 954-3179 cguertin@blg.com Catherine is a partner of the Montréal Commercial Real Estate Group at BLG. She boasts considerable experience in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including large-scale acquisitions and dispositions, financings, and develop- ments across a wide range of asset classes, including office towers, shopping centres, hotels, senior housing residences, and industrial properties. She is also involved with commercial leases from simple projects to complex, mixed-use, multi-level developments, management and rehabilitation of environmentally impacted properties, mining law, and telecommunica- tion work. She is active in various professional organizations, including the International Council of Shopping Centers, Urban Development Institute of Québec, and Commercial Real Estate Women Network. Catherine is also director of the BLG Reads to Kids program. Recognized in the 2023 edition (and since 2020) of e Best Lawyers in Canada (Real Estate Law). Graduate of the Université de Sherbrooke. Called to the Québec Bar in 1997. Hudec, Albert J. FARRIS > (604) 661-9356 ahudec@farris.com Senior partner Al Hudec currently focuses his practice on LNG and other resource industry transactions involving Indigenous parties. He has been lead lawyer on many of Canada's most significant resource transactions involving First Nations over the last 12 years. Al is an M&A and corporate governance practitioner with 40 years of experience in all legal aspects of securities and corporate finance, including mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, and independent committee representation, with emphasis on the North American resource (mining, forestry, oil & gas), infrastructure, and technology industries. His practice focuses on cross-border mergers & acquisitions (takeovers and arrangements) and board and special/independent committee representation. Al writes and speaks frequently on a variety of legal topics relating to resource law, Aboriginal law, M&A, and corporate governance. Al is named in e Best Lawyers in Canada 2022, e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2022, and Lexpert® Special Editions on Energy, Finance and M&A, Technology, Inastructure, and Global Mining. Certified Financial Analyst (1994). Called to Bars of Alberta (1981) and BC (1994). Learmonth, Warren B. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (604) 640-4166 wlearmonth@blg.com Warren Learmonth is a partner in the BLG Vancouver office. He provides expertise to clients in securities and corporate law. Within his practice, he acts as counsel to companies, investment bankers, and board special committees in corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, and restructuring transactions. His clients are involved in biotechnology, e-business, financial services, and forestry and mining, among others. Warren also advises public corporations and their boards of directors, with an emphasis on regulatory compliance, corporate governance, directors' duties and responsibilities, and transaction structuring. Additionally, Warren works with both private and public companies on the adoption of securities-based executive compensation plans. He is recognized in the 2023 edition of e Best Lawyers in Canada for Securities Law (since 2013), Corporate Law (since 2014), and Mergers & Acquisitions Law (since 2019). Warren is also recognized in the 2022 (and since 2011) edition of e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Private Equity) and since the 2020 edition (Corporate Finance & Securities, Corporate Mid-Market). MacKay-Dunn, R. Hector, QC FARRIS > (604) 661-9307 hmackay-dunn@farris.com Senior partner Hector MacKay-Dunn has 30+ years of experience providing advice to high-growth public and private companies and public institutions, over a broad range of industry sectors including mining, large-scale long-term infra- structure services projects, life sciences, technology, health, and clean tech, advising on corporate domestic and cross-border public and private securities offerings, M&A, international partnering & licensing transactions, and to boards of directors and independent board committees on corporate governance matters. Hector is recognized in the Lexpert® Special Editions of Finance and M&A, Technology, Inastructure, and Global Mining; by e Best Lawyers in Canada in the areas of biotech, M&A, corporate and securities and tech for 2022; and in Chambers Canada 2022. Hector received the 2014 Life Sciences Milton Wong Leadership Award, Queen's Counsel (BC) designation in 2003, and AV Preeminent rating from Martin- dale-Hubbell. Hector has served as board member with a number of private and public companies and the board of the BC Tech Association, Chair of the BC Innovation Council and Genome BC and the board of Tennis Canada. Admitted to the BC, Alberta, and Ontario Bars. www.lexpert.ca 11 Lexpert-ranked leading mining lawyers