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Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers www.lexpert.ca 107 Stewart, Meghan Stikeman Elliott LLP > (514) 397-3086 mestewart@stikeman.com Meghan Stewart is a partner in the corporate group. Her practice focuses on domestic, international, and cross- border private Mergers & Acquisitions , divestitures, and other corporate transactions. Meghan has considerable experience leading and advising clients in connection with complex multi-jurisdictional transactions involving multiple stakeholders. Meghan has an impressive track record of working with clients across a wide range of industries, including transportation, healthcare, oil and gas, financial, insurance, manufacturing, technolog y, and entertainment. Stone, Jacob McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (418) 521-3056 jstone@mccarthy.ca Jacob Stone is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP's Business Law Group in the Quebec Region. His practice focuses on project finance, M&A, private placements, and venture capital. Jacob acts for developers, lenders, borrowers, bondholders and investors for the development and financing of infrastructure and renewable energ y projects across Canada, as well as on construction, operation, and supply matters for major renewable energ y projects. Jacob was involved in a number of significant mandates, such as representing Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec (FCDQ) in its $350 million financing of Alliance de l'Énergie de l'Est in its efforts to build and operate wind farms in Quebec and representing Aligned Data Centers in connection with its strategic investment in QScale. He is the co-editor of McCarthy Tétrault LLP's annual publication Power Perspectives and frequently contributes to the firm's Canadian Energ y Perspectives blog. He is called to the bars in both Ontario and Quebec. Story, Craig A. Stikeman Elliott LLP > (403) 266-9098 cstory@stikeman.com Craig Story is a partner in the capital markets and mergers & acquisitions groups. He has served on the firm's partnership board, as well as on the management group for the Calgary office. Craig's practice focuses on corporate and securities law, including public and private capital markets offerings, Private Equity and venture capital funds, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. His corporate finance practice includes advising issuers, major investors, and underwriters in both the public and exempt markets. Specific transaction experience includes bought deals, MJDS offerings, shelf prospectuses, private equity and venture capital fund creation, restructuring, and initial public offerings. Craig advises clients and special committees with respect to numerous types of mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions. Representative clients include energy companies, service and infrastructure companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, midstream companies, and investment bankers. Craig has been counsel to issuers and underwriters with respect to private placements and public offerings, including cross-border offerings for both debt and equity financings. Struthers, Sonia J. McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (514) 397-4232 sstruthers@mccarthy.ca Partner and co-head of the McCarthy's environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainability group. Based in Montreal, Sonia's practice focuses on securities, derivatives and financial services regulation, investment products, capital markets and M&A as well as ESG disclosure, compliance and risk mitigation matters. Regularly advises insurers and other financial institutions, dealers and advisors, fund managers as well as clearing houses and other regulated entities with respect to the structuring and offering of financial products such as investment funds, structured debt products including linked-note offerings, standardized and OTC derivatives and trading and clearing services. Regularly advises on capital markets financing and M&A matters including transactions involving financial institutions, registrants and investment fund businesses. Suarez, Steve Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (416) 367-6702 ssuarez@blg.com Steve Suarez is a partner in BLG's Tax Group in Toronto. His practice focuses exclusively on income tax matters including mergers & acquisitions, inbound and outbound investment, corporate restructurings, mining taxation, audit management and dispute resolution. Suarez is the founder of Business Tax Canada, a website devoted to Canadian tax issues of interest to non-resident business and investors. Co-chair of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (Tax & Economics Committee), co-chair of the Toronto Centre Canada Revenue Agency & Tax Professionals Consultation Group, and the Mining Association of Canada (Tax Committee). Past chair of the Ontario Bar Association (Tax Section) and a former member of the CBA–CICA Joint Committee on Taxation. Recognized in e Legal 500 Canada (Tax), e Best Lawyers in Canada (Tax), Who's Who Legal: Canada (Corporate Tax – Advisory and Controversy), Lexology Index (Tax), Chambers Global and Chambers Canada (Tax), the Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada (Tax), the International Who's Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers, and Lexpert Special Edition – Global Mining. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1990, the New York Bar in 1993, and Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales in 1994.

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