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Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers www.lexpert.ca 103 Seager, Robert A. Voorheis & Co. LLP > (416) 947-1449 rseager@voorco.com Rob is a leading special situations advisor and has been centrally involved in directing high-profile shareholder disputes, proxy contests, M&A transactions, special committee mandates, internal and independent corporate investigations, and complex restructurings. Rob regularly serves as a trusted strategic advisor to institutional and other significant stakeholders, boards of directors, and executive management teams to address their most important opportunities and crisis situations. In 2023, Rob was appointed to the OSC's Securities Advisory Committee, a committee of securities practitioners and other industry experts established to advise the OSC and its staff on a variety of matters including policy initiatives and capital markets trends. Previously, Rob practised securities law at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP and, in 2015, completed a secondment with the Office of M&A at the OSC. Rob received his JD from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University with a specialization in corporate law, his international business law certification from the Global Law Program at the Bader International Study Centre, and his bachelor of commerce from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Rob has also completed levels I and II of the CFA Program. LAWYER TO WATCH Seddon, Elly Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (604) 640-4234 eseddon@blg.com Elly Seddon is a partner in the Financial Services Group. Her practice focuses on corporate finance and commercial lending. Her expertise includes innovation and technology finance, acquisition finance, asset-based lending, environmentally linked sustainability lending, commercial real estate finance, commercial mortgage-backed securities lending, insurance finance, capital call facilities and mezzanine lending. She advises financial institutions, private lenders, corporate borrowers, and private funds on domestic or cross-border bilateral and syndicated loan transactions, as well as complex intercreditor arrangements. Seddon's expertise extends to include corporate restructurings, DIP financings, bankruptcies and receiverships under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. Past president of the Association of Women in Finance. Seddon is fluent in both French and Farsi. Education: JD (Queen's University). Admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 2013. See, Jonathan McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (416) 601-7560 jsee@mccarthy.ca Jonathan See is a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto and Co-head of the firm's national M&A Group and Private Equity Group. He is one of Canada's most well-known M&A lawyers acting for many of the leading financial sponsors in the market and multiple strategics on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions, particularly in the technology, energy transition, infrastructure, energy and mining, and real estate industries. An accomplished dealmaker, Jonathan is also recognized by Legal 500, IFLR, Best Lawyers and Lexpert, for his significant experience in M&A, private equity, infrastructure, project finance and real estate. He was named a Rising Star by Lexpert, the annual award that honours Canada's "Leading Lawyers Under 40". He also led Canadian Law Awards' 2022 M&A Deal of the Year - Brookfield Infrastructure's C$15 billion cash and securities exchange takeover bid for Inter Pipeline Ltd. Selke, Frank W. Stikeman Elliott LLP > (416) 869-6828 fselke@stikeman.com Frank Selke is a partner in the Capital Markets, mergers & acquisitions, and securities groups. His practice focuses on complex capital markets transactions, public and private mergers and acquisitions, and special situations, including activist and contentious engagements with public and private companies. Frank also advises clients on regulatory and internal investigations, shareholder disputes, restructurings, and other commercially sensitive matters. Frank has acted for public and private companies and their boards of directors, special committees, investment banks, institutional investors, investment managers, private equity and hedge funds, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and their families. Frank's practice also involves advising clients across various industries on corporate governance, securities regulatory compliance, continuous disclosure obligations, and executive compensation. Shapiro, Elliot Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (514) 847-4516 elliot.shapiro@nortonrosefulbright.com Elliot Shapiro's practice is transaction oriented, with a focus on corporate and securities law, public and private M&A, infrastructure and P3 financing. He is renowned as one of Canada's leading securities lawyers as a member of the Quebec securities regulator's (AMF) Financial Advisory Committee for over five years. Shapiro regularly advises public companies and their boards of directors and committees on strategic, disclosure and governance matters and he has also set up an infrastructure fund and worked on various licensing and commercial arrangements. In recent years, he has been involved in a variety of high-profile, large-value and/or particularly complex public and private M&A transactions across various sectors and has led multiple cross-border Canada-US corporate finance transactions both on a public and private placement basis.

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