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Abols, Gesta A. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP > (416) 943-8978 gabols@fasken.com Gesta Abols' practice is focused on mergers & acquisitions (including private equity), corporate governance, shareholder activism, and strategic investments. Gesta provides adept legal advice, superior service, and structure to bring clarity to complex challenges. Gesta is the Co-Leader of the firm's Cross Border Practice and on the executive of the firm's Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions (CM and M&A) Committee. Gesta is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law where he teaches an upper-year course on complex transactions and serves as an advisor to the Ontario Securities Commission on its Securities Advisory Committee. Gesta is an active member of the American Bar Association's mergers & acquisition committee and a frequent speaker and writer on M&A and governance developments. Abudulai, Suhuyini Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (416) 367-6732 sabudulai@blg.com Suhuyini Abudulai's practice focuses on transactional and regulatory matters in financial services, with particular expertise in Canadian consumer protection laws and the regulation of financial services in Canada. Among other professional experience, Abudulai is co-chair of the Small and Medium Bank Forum (Canada) and is a member of the Department of Finance's Advisory Committee on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. In 2020, Abudulai was named a Lexpert Rising Star and was previously recognized as a Precedent Setter in Precedent magazine. She was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2009. Allan, Thoburn (Toby) B. McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (403) 260-3547 tallan@mccarthy.ca Toby Allan is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP's Business Law group in Calgary. His practice focuses on corporate finance and securities law matters. He also specializes in private and public mergers and acquisitions. Toby advises issuers and dealers on varied debt and equity financings, including public and private, and domestic and cross-border financings. He has worked on medium-term note financings, sustainability-linked note financings, hybrid debt, and common and preferred share offerings. In addition, Toby assists cross-border and domestic clients with plans of arrangement, takeover bids, and share and asset purchases and sales. Along with this, Toby advises public issuers with securities reporting and compliance obligations as well as corporate governance issues. He has acted as a corporate secretary for a variety of companies. Toby was called to the Alberta bar in 2002. Allard, David A. Lawson Lundell LLP > (604) 631-9108 dallard@lawsonlundell.com David practises primarily in the areas of mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance & securities law. He has extensive experience focused on advising private and public company clients on transactional and general corporate commercial matters, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, and corporate governance issues. Major transactional work includes the sale and purchase of large-scale manufacturing and processing operations and businesses; multi-jurisdictional structured sale transactions; private equity and venture capital investments; convertible debt financings; early stage financings; and corporate restructuring transactions and proceedings. He works with clients at all stages of development, from senior public companies to start-ups and entrepreneurs, and represents clients across a variety of industries, including forestry, services, and technology. He is recognized by e Best Lawyers in Canada for Corporate Law, M&A Law, and Natural Resources Law, and was named Vancouver Lawyer of the Year for Corporate Law (2019) and M&A Law (2021). He is recognized by Chambers Canada for his Corporate/Commercial and Forestry expertise. He is called to the British Columbia bar (1987). Amato, David M.A. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (416) 216-1861 david.amato@nortonrosefulbright.com David M.A. Amato focuses on corporate finance and is co-chairman of the Norton Rose Fulbright asset-based lending team in Canada. As counsel and advisor to various foreign and domestic financial institutions, private debt funds, insurance companies, and an array of other credit providers, he has significant and industry-leading experience in sophisticated debt financing transactions leading numerous multi-jurisdictional, international, and domestic mandates (including asset-based, cash flow, leveraged acquisition, debtor-in-possession, mine, and project financings). As a leading member of the asset-based lending team (a corporate finance area of practice for which Norton Rose Fulbright is recognized as a leading firm), he represents, and is a trusted advisor to, a number of Canadian and US asset-based lenders. He also has extensive insolvency and restructuring experience acting on behalf of creditors. www.lexpert.ca 17 Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers

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