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www.lexpert.ca 29 Becker, Jamie McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (416) 601-8321 jbecker@mccarthy.ca With a dedicated focus on private funds and pension fund investments, and deep experience in M&A, Jamie helps fund sponsors and institutional investors, including leading pension funds, realize their fund formation and investment objectives in North America and around the world. Jamie advises fund sponsors in structuring and negotiating their pooled funds, separate account structures, and co-investment vehicles as well as their internal governance and economic arrangements. He also represents institutional investors on their investments in private equity funds, hedge funds and other alternative investments, both through pooled funds and separate account structures. Jamie regularly acts for clients on co-investment transactions which involve institutional investors investing in a sponsor's primary fund. His work also includes secondary transactions to buy or sell LP interests in private equity funds and GP-led secondary transactions. Jamie also advises Canada's largest pension funds, including CPP Investments and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, on multijurisdictional compliance and other aspects of structuring their investments and other activities around the world. Bélanger, Carl Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP > (514) 397-4332 cbelanger@fasken.com Carl Bélanger is a partner and market leader in the Business Law and Corporate Law group at the Montreal office. He has extensive experience in Canadian and cross-border transactions, primarily in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital. For over 25 years, Carl has assisted investment funds, international industrial groups, as well as family businesses and entrepreneurs in their development, both in Canada and abroad. His experience covers various industry sectors, including healthcare, technology, manufacturing/industrial, and agri-food. Carl is a pragmatic lawyer who stands out for his ability to reconcile clients' business objectives with the legal and transactional framework. He can provide creative and tailored solutions for clients' strategic and sensitive matters. His ability to build relationships and navigate sensitive situations is a valued asset for clients. Carl values long-term business relationships with clients and strives to be a true partner. Bellefleur, Sébastien Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP > (514) 397-7445 sbellefleur@fasken.com Sébastien Bellefleur has extensive experience in business law, more specifically in securities, mergers, acquisitions, corporate governance, and mining law. He also helps set up funding, whether in the form of loans or equity financings. He has dra ed a number of complex transactions on behalf of public and private corporations, such as the purchase, sale, funding, and restructuring of businesses throughout Canada and abroad. He has represented issuers and brokers in connection with initial public offerings and other distributions of equity securities and debt instruments, as well as with such securities investments as prospectus offerings and private placements. He has played a role in several corporate reorganizations, restructurings, takeover bids, and proxy solicitations for shareholders' meetings. A major portion of his practice consists in advising public corporations of the obligations imposed on them by regulatory authorities, notably corporate governance, and to assist them in their interactions with the market and securities authorities. Over the course of his practice, he has also acquired specific expertise on the legal issues particular to the mining industry. Belley, Dominic C. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (514) 847-4318 dominic.belley@nortonrosefulbright.com Dominic Belley is a tax litigator. He has represented taxpayers against federal, provincial and municipal tax authorities in civil, commercial, criminal and constitutional matters before the Court of Quebec, the Quebec Superior Court, the Québec Court of Appeal, the BC Supreme Court, the Alberta Court of King's Bench, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, the Tax Court of Canada, the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal. His domestic tax experience includes the general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR), tax on capital, the goods and services tax (GST), interest deductibility, hybrid transactions, the capital gains exemption, capital cost allowance, debt forgiveness, taxation of partnerships, trusts and estates, scientific research and experimental development (SR&ED), real estate, stock options, protection of tax information and cancellation of penalties. His international tax experience includes transfer pricing, foreign accrual property income (FAPI), residency, corporate migrations, the thin capitalization rules, de facto control by non- residents, international and inter-provincial allocation of income, anti-discrimination treaty provisions, and access to and protection of tax information through tax conventions. Bellissimo, Eva McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (416) 601-8968 ebellissimo@mccarthy.ca Eva Bellissimo, National Practice Group Leader of McCarthy Tétrault's Business Law Group and Co-leader of the firm's Global Metals & Mining Group, has a broad transactional practice including international M&A, corporate finance, and strategic investments. Named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada (2021), Eva is deeply connected to the mining industry and known for her strategic, entrepreneurial approach to deals. With over 20 years of experience leading hundreds of transactions, Eva has expertise in cross-border M&A and multi-jurisdictional transactions. Eva provides pragmatic advice and develops deal strategies for acquirors, target companies, and special committees. She assists clients in executing a variety of transactions, including arrangements, reverse takeovers, going-private transactions, takeover bids, and other business combinations. In her corporate finance practice, she advises issuers and investment banks on public equity offerings, convertible debt transactions, and IPOs. Eva also advises international clients making strategic investments in TSX-listed issuers and on proxy contests and activist shareholder actions. Eva is recognized in Chambers and consistently named by Lexpert and Legal 500, among others. Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers

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