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Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers 82 www.lexpert.ca MacKenzie, Daphne J. Stikeman Elliott LLP > (416) 869-5695 dmackenzie@stikeman.com Daphne MacKenzie is a partner in and former head of the Banking & Finance group and a former member of the firm's partnership board and executive committee. Her practice focuses on banking, project finance, restructurings, insolvency, and public debt securities. Daphne acts for financial institutions and borrowers in cross-border banking and project finance transactions, and for creditors, debtors, receivers, and monitors in commercial insolvencies and restructurings. She acts for private equity funds in connection with leveraged acquisitions and acts as corporate counsel to numerous Canadian corporations. Daphne advises lenders, sponsors, and borrowers in connection with project finance transactions in the mining sector. ese transactions involve mining projects in Canada, the US, South America, Europe, and Africa. Daphne has been recognized in numerous legal publications as a leading lawyer in, among other practice areas, banking & finance, project finance, and asset-based lending. MacMullin, Marc J. McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (416) 601-7558 mmacmullin@mccarthy.ca Co-Leader of the firm's National Financial Services Group. Partner in the firm's Toronto office with practice focusing on financial institutions, and capital market and structured finance transactions, including new issuer transactions, global covered bond programs (lead issuer counsel on a majority of the Canadian issuer covered bond programs), cross-border transactions, asset-backed programs and novel capital market transactions. Acted as lead counsel on numerous public securitization transactions and global covered bond programs, both for issuers and underwriters. Extensive experience in innovative transactions and single-seller and multi-seller securitisation transactions for various asset classes, including commercial mortgage and residential mortgage loan securitizations, (CMBS and RMBS), credit card receivables, trade receivables, and consumer loans. Lorito, John G. Stikeman Elliott LLP > (416) 869-5272 jlorito@stikeman.com John Lorito is head of the Tax group. His practice focuses on tax elements of corporation transactions, with particular emphasis on corporate reorganizations, mergers, and acquisitions in domestic and cross-border transactions, investment funds, corporate joint ventures, REITs, corporate finance, and international taxation. John regularly represents clients across various industries, including financial services, real estate, telecommunications, mining, retail, and more. He has acted as counsel on federal and provincial income tax appeals before the Federal Court of Appeal and the Ontario Court (General Division). John has over 30 years of experience and is highly regarded for his skilled handling of tax matters and providing practical solutions for complex tax issues. He is recognized as a leading tax lawyer in Canada by the legal industry's most prominent directories, including Chambers and Lexpert. Lynde, D.J. McCarthy Tétrault LLP > dlynde@mccarthy.ca D.J. Lynde is a partner in the firm's Business Law Group in Toronto. His practice focuses on banking, secured lending, fund finance, specialty finance and structured finance transactions. D.J. acts for Canadian and international banks, financial institutions, non-bank lenders, investors and borrowers in connection with lending transactions, including bilateral and syndicated financings, first lien/second lien financings, subscription, NAV and hybrid facilities, asset-based loans, leverage acquisition financings, specialty finance transactions, restructurings, workouts and multi-jurisdictional and cross-border transactions. D.J. obtained his LLM in Business Law from Osgoode Hall Law School and his LLB from the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. He was called to the Ontario bar in 2011 and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association. Low, Michael J. Lawson Lundell LLP > (604) 631-9137 mlow@lawsonlundell.com Michael represents both lenders and borrowers in a wide range of transactions involving debt financing, including operating and term credit facilities provided by banks and other financial institutions (both individually or as part of a syndicate), acquisition financing, including leveraged buyout transactions that frequently involve multiple tiers of secured and unsecured debt, commercial lease financing, asset-based loan facilities, and subordinated or mezzanine debt financing. His experience extends to the financing of a wide variety of businesses across a range of sectors, including manufacturing, commercial, and residential real estate development, construction, aircra operations, and a variety of service providers. Michael's work frequently involves inter-provincial and other multi-jurisdictional financing transactions, and he has considerable experience in dealing with the multi-jurisdictional issues arising in such transactions. He is recognized in e Best Lawyers in Canada for Asset-Based Lending Practice, Banking and Finance Law, Project Finance Law, and Public Finance Law, was named their 'Lawyer of the Year' for Banking and Finance Law in 2022 and for Asset-Based Lending Practice in 2023 and 2025, in Vancouver. Michael is called to the British Columbia bar (1991).

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