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62 www.lexpert.ca Hourani, Gilbert Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (514) 954-3101 ghourani@blg.com Partner in Insurance & Tort Liability Group of BLG's Montreal office. Provides litigation defence services to Canadian and foreign insurers carrying on business in Canada and in the US. Practice focuses on professional liability of general and specialized contractors and engineering firms. Represents public and private entities of all sizes and brings specialized knowledge with respect to insurance defence and risk management for professional and financial indemnity and general line programs underwritten in Canada. Oen called upon to speak at conferences and actively engages within industry, particularly as a member of the Barreau du Québec. Academic Associate, Insurance Law course, McGill University Faculty of Law. Winner at Client Choice Awards and recognized for exceptional service and prowess in Insurance category in Quebec. Recognized in e Best Lawyers in Canada (Insurance Law). Education: LLB (Université de Montréal). Admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1994. Kang, Yoon Smart & Biggar > (416) 595-2756 ykang@smartbiggar.ca Yoon is a Principal in Smart & Biggar's Toronto office. For over 25 years, she has focused her practice on patent litigation and prosecution, counselling global pharmaceutical innovators and research institutions on all aspects of patent rights, including in small molecules and biologics inventions. She has significant experience as lead counsel, representing pharmaceutical clients before the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal in complex patent litigation, including under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations. In 2021, Yoon was named Patent Lawyer of the Year by Euromoney LMG Women at the Americas Women in Business Law Awards, and in both 2020 and 2021 she was named a Top Female Legal Practitioner for Life Sciences by Euromoney LMG Expert Guide: Women in in Business Law. Yoon is listed as a top legal practitioner in Expert Guides: Women in Business Law, LMG Life Sciences, e Best Lawyers in Canada, Benchmark Canada, IAM Patent 1000, WIPR Leaders, Who's Who Legal, and Lexpert. Fellow of IPIC, member and former Co-Chair of the Patents and Industrial Design Committee of the CBA. BSc (Microbiology and Genetics); MSc (Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics); LLB. Registered Patent & Trademark Agent. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1995. Kirkpatrick, Emily McEwan Partners > (604) 283-7981 ekirkpatrick@mcewanpartners.com Emily is a partner in McEwan Partners in Vancouver. She maintains a general civil litigation and administrative practice, with a particular focus on corporate, commercial and class action matters. Emily has experience working with clients on a wide range of issues including shareholder disputes, class action defense, contract disputes, product liability, employment issues, environmental matters, franchise agreements, leases, debt recovery, and municipal and other government relations. Emily has also advised and represented clients involved in various regulated industries including securities, pharmaceuticals, and energy. She has appeared as counsel at various levels of court in BC and Ontario, as well as before the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada, and administrative and regulatory tribunals. Emily's mediation and arbitration experience includes both domestic and international commercial matters on a range of issues including securities, real property disputes, and licensing agreements. She is Vice Chair of the British Columbia Regional Advisory Committee of e Advocates' Society, and sits on the editorial board of the Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Review, and is a regular contributor to various CLE programs and publications. LAWYER TO WATCH Kozak, Frederick S., KC Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP > (780) 497-3358 fkozak@rmrf.com Fred is a sought-aer strategic legal advisor with over 40 years of experience. Fred carries on a civil litigation practice with an emphasis on constitutional law, media and defamation issues, and employment and administrative proceedings. He is admitted to the Bar in Alberta, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Fred represents several national news organizations, and provides pre-publication advice to print, broadcast and web-based media outlets, as well as book publishers. Fred has been counsel in several cases where the Charter has been used to strike down provincial or federal legislation, and has appeared in all levels of the courts of Alberta and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Fred's major media clients include the Edmonton Journal, CBC, Globe and Mail, CTV, National Post, Canadian Press, Broadcast News, Lethbridge Herald, Medicine Hat News, Post Media, and Great West Newspaper Group. Fred has also taught at MacEwan University on law and the media as well as on employment law at the University of Alberta. Kremer, Markus F. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (416) 367-6658 mkremer@blg.com Partner and head of BLG's Class Actions Group in Toronto. Specializes in defending the country's largest financial and public institutions and corporations in actions involving breaches of contract, privacy breaches, regulatory compliance, consumer protection, competition and mass tort issues arising in the financial services, pension, healthcare and retail industries. Also practises commercial litigation (contractual and corporate disputes, as well as cross-border litigation) and public law (pension matters). He is regularly retained by employers and administrators of single- and multi-employer pension plans with respect to plan administration issues and litigates pension disputes before tribunals and courts. In the education sector, he has particular expertise with respect to difficult religious rights issues. Markus has appeared as counsel before all levels of court in Ontario, the Saskatchewan Court of King's Bench, the Federal Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as the Financial Services Tribunal and other administrative tribunals. Selected by peers for inclusion in e Best Lawyers in Canada (Employee Benefits Law; Class Action Litigation; Corporate Commercial Litigation). Education: LLB (York University). Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1999. Lexpert-ranked leading litigation lawyers