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www.lexpert.ca 55 Déry, Pierre Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (418) 640-5009 pierre.dery@nortonrosefulbright.com Pierre Déry's practice focuses on private mergers and acquisitions, private equity financings, corporate reorganizations and technology transfers. Over the last 10 years, he has acted in a number of cross-border transactions mainly in the fields of agribusiness, health services, and infrastructure. He has also acted in a number of initial public offerings for companies in the Quebec City area. He holds the title of CPA, CA since 1989 and he is a former lecturer on financial accounting and corporate taxation at Université Laval. He also holds a master's degree in business law from Université Laval. Deschamps, Michel McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (514) 397-4138 mdeschamps@mccarthy.ca Practices banking and commercial law. Broad experience in domestic and cross-border loan syndications, secured transactions, receivables financing, international banking transactions, and regulation of financial institutions (including on consumer protection matters). Canadian delegate on law reform projects in secured transactions sponsored by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law. Member of working groups of these organizations and of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada. Chair of the Quebec Bar Law Review and the Quebec bar committee on secured transactions. Associate Professor (banking law) at the Law Faculty of Université de Montréal. Devereux, Mike Stikeman Elliott LLP > (416) 869-6803 mdevereux@stikeman.com Mike Devereux is a partner in the capital markets and Mergers & Acquisitions groups and a member of the associates committee in the Toronto office. His practice focuses on securities and corporate law, with an emphasis on public and private mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, private equity transactions, strategic transactions such as joint ventures, partnerships and significant investments, and corporate finance transactions. Mike has advised issuers, boards of directors, special committees, management teams, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, financial advisors, and other transaction participants in a wide range of M&A transactions, both public and private, as well as issuers and securities dealers in numerous corporate finance transactions. He also regularly advises clients on corporate governance and securities law compliance matters, shareholder activism, and takeover preparedness. Dhaliwal, Mandeep Lawson Lundell LLP > (604) 631-6742 mdhaliwal@lawsonlundell.com Mandeep's practice deals mainly with banks, insurance companies, leasing companies, funds, and private lenders in both secured and unsecured financing transactions. Mandeep regularly advises on project financing, real estate financing, including construction lending and term financing, subordinated debt financing, deposit insurance facilities, leasing arrangements and other asset-based financing structures, hedging, securitization, and aircra finance. Mandeep acts on behalf of borrowers in assisting them with local and international project financing, with a focus on mining and independent power projects financings. He also acts on behalf of real estate clients on acquisition and divestitures. He was listed in the 2017 Lexpert Special Edition — Leading Canadian Lawyers in Global Mining and in the Lexpert 2013 Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada. He is recognized in e Best Lawyers in Canada for Banking and Finance Law and Project Finance Law, and is recommended by Who's Who Legal for his banking expertise. He was named the 2023 and 2025 'Lawyer of the Year' for Banking and Finance Law in Vancouver by Best Lawyers in Canada. He is called to the British Columbia bar (2002). Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers Deschamps, Mathieu Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (514) 847-4344 mathieu.deschamps@nortonrosefulbright.com Mathieu Deschamps deals with all aspects of corporate and business law. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions as well as setting up complex structures in connection with equity and debt financings, involving both publicly traded and privately held companies. He frequently acts in multi-jurisdictional transactions in Canada, the US, and abroad in various sectors of the economy, including the circular economy, oil and gas and renewable energy, transportation, food, pharmaceutical, financial, insurance, securities advisory and trading, and entertainment industries. He is also involved in the negotiation of shareholders' and partnership agreements as well as various commercial contracts for large corporations, institutional investors, SMEs, and start-ups. In addition to his practice, Deschamps is currently the leader of the private M&A team for the Montreal office. He also oversees the firm's three-year partnership with Zù to support entrepreneurs in the entertainment and technology sectors by offering them legal assistance services. His past experience as a market analyst for a mining company during his studies allows him to bring industry experience to his work.

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