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46 www.lawawards.ca DEAL CATEGORIES See our Special Report on Top Deals on pages 22–38, which also reveals the Excellence Awardees in the Canadian Law Awards deals categories. Thank you to our esteemed judges for lending their time and expertise to help recognize and celebrate excellence in the legal profession. 2025 JUDGING PANEL Josianne Beaudry Partner – Leader of the Business Law Group Lavery Jacqueline Beckles General Counsel Department of Justice Canada and CABL – Board Member Stephen Beney Principal Smart & Biggar Michael Casey Senior VP and General Counsel EllisDon Peter Castiel Chair of the Firm Stikeman Elliott LLP Bruce Chapple CEO, Managing Partner McMillan LLP Nicholas Cerminaro Senior Vice President and General Counsel GardaWorld George Cooper, KC Chief Executive Officer and Partner Cox & Palmer Lindsay Cox Partner Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer, LLP Bindu Cudjoe Executive and Board Member Vincent de l'Etoile Partner, Litigation Group; Member Board of Directors Langlois Lawyers, LLP Martin K. Denyes Firm Managing Partner Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Frédéric Duguay General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) Paul Fruitman Partner Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP Yonni Fushman Chief Legal Officer and EVP, Sustainability, Northland Power Inc. and Past Chair Ontario Bar Association's Construction and Infrastructure Law section Conni Gibson Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary Interac Corp. James A. Grange Senior Legal Counsel & Assistant Corporate Secretary First West Credit Union Alison Harnick Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary and Board Member Women General Counsel Canada First Capital REIT Nizam Hasham Assistant Vice-President, Regulatory and Commercial Law Canadian Pacific Railway Sharon Haward-Laird General Counsel BMO Financial Group Kene Ilochonwu, KC Bencher Law Society of Alberta Monique Jilesen Managing Partner Lenczner Slaght Philippe Johnson Managing Partner, Montreal Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Kevin Kiley, KC Managing Partner McInnes Cooper Lynn Korbak Former General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Toromont Industries Ltd James Kosa Co-Chair, Technology, IP and Privacy Group WeirFoulds LLP Mitch Kowalski Senior Counsel Greater Toronto Airports Authority David M. Kramer Senior Legal Counsel Suncor Energy Inc. Arun Krishnamurti Senior Counsel, Google Canada and Co-Chair (Corporate Counsel Section) South Asian Bar Association (SABA) of North America François Lajeunesse Conseiller juridique principal / Senior Legal Counsel Desjardins Group Dale H. Lastman, CM Chair Goodmans LLP Christopher Lemon General Counsel Pan American Silver Carlton Mathias Chief Legal, ESG and Governance Officer Ontario Power Generation Blair McCreadie Managing Partner, Toronto Dentons Canada LLP Melanie McGrath General Counsel CBCL Limited John G. Murphy National Managing Partner & CEO Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) Benjamin Na Partner and Head of the Advocacy Department, Toronto Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP Steven Ngo Sr. Counsel, Consumer Transactions and Advisory Director (Past President) – Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers BC Rivian Lorne O'Reilly, KC Lead Counsel Dow Chemical Canada ULC Benoit Palmer Chief Counsel, Canadian Mining Businesses – Legal services / Conseiller juridique principal, secteur minier canadien – Services juridiques Rio Tinto Heather Platt Chief Legal Officer Metrolinx Karrin A. Powys-Lybbe Partner Torys LLP Emmanuel Pressman Chair, Corporate Department Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Clifford G. Proudfoot, KC Managing Partner Lawson Lundell LLP Dinesh Ramanathan Senior VP Legal Fengate Asset Management Bruce Reynolds Co-Managing Partner, Mediator and Arbitrator Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP Luisa Ritacca Managing Partner Stockwoods LLP Kenneth R. Rosenstein Managing Partner, Toronto Miller Thomson LLP Bo Rothstein Managing Partner Farris LLP Shara Roy Chief Legal Counsel Ernst & Young LLP Robert Seidel, KC Canada Managing Partner DLA Piper (Canada) LLP Yasmin Shaker General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Invest Ontario Bryson A. Stokes Firm Managing Partner Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP David Taniguchi Vice President, Legal & Corporate Secretary Enbridge Inc. Kristin Taylor Managing Partner Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP Jennifer Teskey Managing Partner, Canada Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Yola Ventresca Managing Partner – London Lerners LLP Yasmin Visram Senior Director, Legal Teams – Insurance iA Financial Group Chris Vollmershausen EVP, Legal, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Agnico Eagle Mines Limited Patrice Walch-Watson Senior Managing Director, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary LegalCanada Pension Plan Investment Board Andrea Wood Executive Vice President and Chief Legal and Governance Officer TELUS Marisa Wyse Chief Legal Officer Rogers Communications Danielle Young Chief Counsel, Privacy & Cybersecurity and Global Chief Privacy Officer Manulife Caroline Zayid Managing Partner, Ontario Region McCarthy Tétrault LLP

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