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Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers www.lexpert.ca 95 Pasquino, Nick G. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (416) 367-6253 npasquino@blg.com Partner and regional manager of the Corporate Commercial Group in BLG's Toronto office. Has significant expertise handling mergers & acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, partnerships, reorganizations, and divestitures. Also advises US and international businesses on entering the Canadian market. Co-chair of BLG's Health Sector Services Group. Participated as adjunct faculty at Western Law and Windsor Law, teaching mergers & acquisitions for several years. Recognized in Chambers Canada for Charities/Non-Profits and for Healthcare: Corporate/Commercial & Regulatory, e Best Lawyers in Canada for Charities/Non-Profit Law, e Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for Corporate Mid-Market, Charities/Not-For-Profit Law, and Corporate Commercial Law, Lexpert Special Edition: Health Sciences. Recognized as a 2020 and 2019 Acritas Star, and Access to Justice Champion in the 2016 Flip Your Wig for Justice Campaign – Pro Bono Law Ontario. Education: BA (University of Toronto); LLB (University of Western Ontario). Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 2009. Pearlman, Shane B. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (416) 367-6693 spearlman@blg.com Shane Pearlman is a partner in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and is a member of the Financial Services Group and the head of the firm's National Financial Services Group's US strategic sector. Pearlman's practice focuses on representing lenders in secured lending transactions and restructurings, and he has significant expertise in cross-border and international financing transactions. Pearlman's practice also involves advising financial institutions with respect to banking and financial services, including legislative powers and compliance, representing firms acting as receivers, monitors, and trustees in connection with insolvencies and restructurings, and representing project developers, sponsors, underwriters, and lenders on major power projects and transportation, hospital, and other public-private partnership (P3) infrastructure projects. Pearlman is recognized in IFLR1000: e Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms. He received his LLB from the University of British Columbia in 2002 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2003. Pelland, Aniko Stikeman Elliott LLP > (514) 397-6456 apelland@stikeman.com Aniko Pelland is a partner in the corporate group. His practice focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance, and securities law compliance matters. Aniko's experience includes advising Canadian and foreign clients in acquisitions, business combinations, reorganizations, general commercial negotiations, public and private offerings of equity and debt, as well as governance matters. He has worked across a wide range of industries, acting for public and private companies, investment banks, private equity firms and institutional investors. In 2011, Aniko worked in Stikeman Elliott's London office. He is co-chairman of the Montréal office's students & stagiaires committee, acting as mentor for lawyers, students, and stagiaires. Pereira, Jill R. McMillan LLP > (604) 893-7645 jill.pereira@mcmillan.ca Jill practises in the firm's Vancouver office in the financial services sector. She has extensive experience representing clients on complex debt financing transactions, private equity investments and other commercially driven projects. As part of her practice, Jill oversees the structuring, negotiation and documentation of credit facilities to borrowers operating in a wide variety of industries, including real estate development, forestry, mining, agri-business, technolog y, transportation and manufacturing. Her areas of expertise include project finance, acquisition / cross-border M&A finance, corporate finance for multi-nationals, private equity investment and general banking and treasury matters. In addition to her professional work, she is also actively engaged in the community, and participates in mentoring programs, professional training and pro bono projects. Perry, Chrysten E., KC Stikeman Elliott LLP > (403) 266-9010 cperry@stikeman.com Chrysten Perry is managing partner of the Calgary office, co-head of the Energy group, and a member of the partnership board. She is a partner in the commercial energy, corporate, and projects and infrastructure groups and has more than 30 years of experience practising corporate and commercial law in the energy industry. Chrysten advises clients on a diverse array of energy-driven matters including joint ventures, private share and asset purchase and sale transactions, project development, transportation, processing and handling arrangements, blending agreements, funding agreements, power purchase contracts, and other transactional matters. She is also widely known for her experience in operating and governance matters, and her advice is frequently sought in connection with the strategic and business law aspects of energy-related matters. Chrysten has led many complex energy transactions for the Calgary office (as evidenced by the list of representative work). Chrysten is recognized as a leading lawyer in Canada by numerous legal directories and in 2020 was honoured with a King's Counsel (KC) designation, a prestigious designation conferred on members of the legal profession to recognize their distinguished legal service and experience in a particular area of law.

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