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Lexpert-ranked leading litigation lawyers 58 www.lexpert.ca Epp, Matthew J. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (403) 232-9712 MEpp@blg.com Matthew has practised in the areas of civil litigation and white collar crime for more than 25 years. Clients regularly request his advice in complex commercial litigation including class actions, fraud, the corruption of foreign officials, and shareholder disputes. He acts as lead counsel for large corporations at all levels of court and in front of industry tribunals, including the Law Society of Alberta, Mutual Fund Dealers Association, Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), Alberta Securities Commission, and Real Estate Council of Alberta. Matthew's legal experience involves significant arbitral proceedings, including those in the electricity and real estate development industries, as well as general corporate/commercial matters ranging from employment matters to contractual disputes. He has been recognized in Chambers Canada, as a Litigation Star by Benchmark Canada and is regularly included in e Best Lawyers in Canada. Called to the Alberta Bar in 1996. Evans, Mark Smart & Biggar > (416) 595-2777 mkevans@smartbiggar.ca Mark Evans, managing principal of Smart & Biggar's Toronto office, is widely recognized as one of Canada's leading trademark lawyers and a highly respected litigator. He has significant experience in all aspects of trademark law including trademark and trade-dress litigation, brand selection and clearance, trademark prosecution, oppositions and cancellations and licensing and merchandising. Mark has been successful in numerous high-profile, precedent-setting cases and has twice been selected as Trademark Litigator of the Year in Benchmark Canada. Most recently, he was named Canada's Outstanding Trademark Practitioner by Managing IP and Global Elite ought Leader in Trademarks by Who's Who Legal. Mark is listed annually in e Lexpert/ALM Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Expert Guides, e Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global, Who's Who Legal: Canada, WTR 1000, e Legal 500 Canada and MIP's IP Stars Handbook: Trademark & Copyright. Surveys, clients and colleagues describe him as "the best bar none" and "the 'go-to' lawyer" for trademark law. He has written extensively on IP law, is a frequent speaker and has taught at Osgoode Hall Law School. Fellow of IPIC. Member of INTA. BSc; LLB. Registered Patent and Trademark Agent. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1986. Finnigan, John L. Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP > (416) 304-0558 jfinnigan@tgf.ca John is a partner of TGF and has a broad practice in complex commercial litigation with significant experience in insolvency and restructuring litigation. He has been lauded as a "spectacular lawyer in huge insolvency proceedings" and "a very credible, no-nonsense litigator who is extremely effective in court" in Chambers Global. He has been recognized in e Lexpert/ American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and listed as Most Frequently Recommended in Litigation – Corporate Commercial in Lexpert. John currently is lead counsel for PwC as Receiver of Bridging Financial and was senior litigation counsel representing the Trustees of the UK Pension Plan in successfully obtaining a groundbreaking pro rata allocation among the global Nortel Networks insolvency estates following an unprecedented joint trial of the Canadian and US Courts, over $7.3 billion in asset sale proceeds. John was appointed by the Superior Court to represent 630,000 policyholders of Economical Insurance and led a successful negotiation with a competing group of policyholders on the allocation of $2 billion in expected demutualization benefits. He is a Founding Director of Worldwide Orphans Foundation Canada with more than $1.2 million raised for orphan relief. Flaherty, Patrick Chernos Flaherty Svonkin LLP > (416) 855-0403 pflaherty@cfscounsel.com Pat Flaherty is a partner of Chernos Flaherty Svonkin LLP with a practice devoted to complex commercial litigation. He has tried matters in court and in private arbitrations in a wide variety of significant disputes involving securities law, oppression, class actions, directors' and officers' liability, civil fraud, public authority liability, intellectual property, information technology, defamation and privacy. Pat represents many clients in the financial services, manufacturing, consumer products, real estate, and mining industries. He has been repeatedly recognized as a leading litigator in Lexpert, Chambers, Best Lawyers in Canada, and Benchmark Canada. Pat taught for over two decades in Osgoode Hall's graduate LLM Program and is a frequent speaker and teacher on advocacy. In addition, he has acted as an arbitrator in commercial and other disputes. Ontario Bar, 1993; JD, 1991, Queen's University; BA, 1988, University of Toronto. Foreman, Jonathan Foreman & Company > (519) 914-1175 jforeman@foremancompany.com Jon Foreman is the founder and partner of Foreman & Company, a boutique class actions law firm with an emphasis on securities law, competition law, consumer and product law, and pensions and copyright law, among other areas. Honoured in 2013 as one of Lexpert's Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40 in Canada. Also recognized by Lexpert as a leading practitioner in Canadian Class Actions in the annual e Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and in several Lexpert Special Editions publications. He has litigated a full range of class action matters and has accumulated considerable class action trial experiences. Has also negotiated and mediated many class action settlements and has much experience in the design of notice and claims distribution systems for class members. Jon was an adjunct faculty member at Western University Law School where he taught class actions for five years. A frequent writer and presenter on class actions at leading legal conferences, he also oen provides legal commentary to media outlets such as the CBC, CTV, the Toronto Star, the National Post, e Globe and Mail, e Lawyers Weekly, and others. Jon is a graduate of the law school at Western University and also completed the "Emerging Leaders in Law Firms" executive legal program at Harvard Law School.