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Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers www.lexpert.ca 79 Legge, Dion J. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (403) 267-9438 dion.legge@nortonrosefulbright.com Dion Legge practises tax law. His practice focuses on the income tax aspects of corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, debt and equity financings, and the taxation of flow-through vehicles. Legge also advises on tax-planning issues related to international structures for Canadian-based multinational corporations, on investments by non-residents in Canada, and on structuring cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and financings. Legge, Jennifer G. Stikeman Elliott LLP > (416) 869-5660 jlegge@stikeman.com Jennifer Legge is head of the Banking & Finance group. She is also a member of the mergers & acquisitions and restructuring & insolvency groups, as well as a member of the management committee in the Toronto office. Jennifer advises her clients on a diverse range of corporate and business law matters, having over 25 years' experience in structuring, negotiating, documenting, and administering a wide variety of financing arrangements, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated secured syndicated financings, term loan and asset based loan facilities, bilateral credit facilities, acquisitions and leveraged buyout financings, project and P3 financings, margin loans, unitranche loans, amendments and extensions, intercreditor arrangements, and dividend recaps. Jennifer advises her clients in structuring, negotiating, and documenting merger and acquisition transactions across a range of industries. She acts for strategic buyers of businesses, for entrepreneurs in dispositions of family-owned businesses and for private equity investors in acquisitions and dispositions. Lemieux, David Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (514) 847-4250 david.lemieux@nortonrosefulbright.com David Lemieux practises corporate financing and restructuring. He regularly represents lending syndicates, borrowers and investors in the areas of project financing, public and private takeover bids, asset acquisitions, monetization, securitization, structured finance and debt restructuring, whether the financing is Canadian, cross-border or foreign. In this capacity, he organizes and leads teams of lawyers to close these transactions. He is involved in negotiating, preparing and finalizing all aspects of these transactions, including corporate structuring, credit documentation, agreements between creditors, security documents and the restructuring of debt. Lennard, John J. Stikeman Elliott LLP > (416) 869-5566 jlennard@stikeman.com John J. Lennard is a partner in the Corporate Tax group. He works closely with leading private and public companies, as well as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms, and Crown corporations on corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, investment fund formation, and corporate finance matters. He frequently consults on cross-border transactions, structuring non-resident investment into Canada and outbound investment by Canadian multinationals. John also advises high-net-worth individuals on a wide variety of taxation matters. John's clients turn to him for his practical and business-oriented advice on all aspects of domestic and international tax planning. In addition to his tax planning practice, John represents taxpayers in tax audit matters and in disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency and provincial taxation authorities, and acts as counsel in tax litigation matters before the courts. A frequent speaker at tax conferences and contributor to various tax publications, John is particularly well-regarded for his thought leadership on the taxation of hedge funds and other private investment funds. Leopold, John W. Stikeman Elliott LLP > (514) 397-3111 jleopold@stikeman.com John Leopold is a preeminent corporate lawyer who has been repeatedly recognized both nationally and internationally as one of Canada's elite practitioners in Mergers & Acquisitions and corporate law. John is ranked by Chambers Canada as a Band 1 leading lawyer in corporate/commercial where he is described as having an outstanding reputation, with one of his clients calling him "one of the finest M&A and general business lawyers I have worked with" and with several market commentators describing him as "an incredible lawyer with good business sense." He was also named by Best Lawyers in Canada (2019), based on peer review within the legal community, as Montréal Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year. John has been recognized consistently by Who's Who Legal Canada and the International Who's Who of Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Governance, with clients describing him as "absolutely terrific," "always my first port of call," and "bringing real value to any deal" and attesting to his "outstanding caliber" and "all around technical excellence." John's standing in the private equity world was evidenced when he was named as one of the 30 Most Influential Private Equity Attorneys in the World by Private Equity International (the only Canadian to receive this honour).

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