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www.lexpert.ca 75 Mangano, Jason P. Blaney McMurtry LLP > (416) 596-2896 jmangano@blaney.com Jason Mangano is a well-respected litigator with extensive experience handling complex disputes across a wide range of legal areas. He has successfully served as lead counsel in high-stakes litigation at all levels of court across Canada. Clients trust Jason's strategic advocacy, keen analytical skills, and ability to cut through complexity to deliver pragmat- ic solutions. He has a deep background in insurance and risk management-related litigation, covering first-party and third-party liability disputes, including manuscript, commercial general liability (CGL), directors and officers (D&O), builder's risk/wrap-up, ride-share, business interruption, and professional liability claims. Beyond insurance, Jason has a proven track record in litigating commercial and casualty disputes. Known for his ability to navigate intricate legal and industry frameworks, he is a go-to advisor for clients seeking sophisticated legal representation in an evolving litigation landscape. Maniago, Michelle Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (604) 640-4139 mmaniago@blg.com Michelle Maniago is a partner in BLG's Vancouver office. She has significant experience with highly complex commercial, banking and corporate litigation and arbitration across a range of industries and legal subject matters. Her practice includes defence of high-profile provincial, national and multi-jurisdictional class actions involving credit card insurance products, foreign exchange transaction costs, Ponzi schemes, mutual fund related management fees, alleged defective products, environmental claims, consumer protection claims, privacy breaches, and price-fix- ing claims. Maniago also has specialized knowledge in a variety of areas, including: competition law, advertising, price-fixing, bid-rigging, consumer protection, banking, corporate governance, plans of arrangement and privacy law. Recognized in Chambers Canada for Dispute Resolution: Class Action (Defence) since 2024. Recognized by Benchmark Litigation on their "Top 100 Women in Canada" list. Recognized for six consecutive years in the Benchmark Litigation's 40 and Under Hotlist. Recognized in 2022 as a Lexpert Rising Star: Leading Lawyer Under 40. Recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada. Called to the British Columbia Bar in 2008. Marrocco, Edward (Ted) Stockwoods LLP > (416) 593-2470 edwardm@stockwoods.ca Edward (Ted) Marrocco is a litigator with a unique combination of courtroom skill and tech knowledge. He acts on commercial, regulatory, and public law matters including coroner's inquests and public inquiries. He is regularly retained to work on cases involving computer-based evidence, including social media evidence and electronic data privacy. He helps lawyers and law firms respond to data breaches and often presents on cybersecurity topics at conferences for lawyers and private clients. In 2022, he was co-counsel on one of Ontario's leading cases on abuse of process. The case turned on improper access to an opposing side's electronic data system, and he was the lawyer responsible for the successful side's computer forensics strategy. He also has a well-established regulatory and public law practice. In 2019, he was lead counsel for a police service at the inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. In late 2023, he acted on a landmark coroner's inquest where he successfully represented the family of a man tragically killed by correctional officers at an Ontario super jail. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Toronto. He is a co-author of Digital Privacy: Criminal, Civil and Regulatory Litigation (LexisNexis, 2018). Martineau, Yves Stikeman Elliott LLP > (514) 397-3380 ymartineau@stikeman.com Yves Martineau is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution group. Over the years, Yves has developed specific experience in class actions primarily defending manufacturers, banking institutions, and telecommunications companies. He also deals with every aspect of litigation, such as commercial law, product liability, banking law, professional liability, consumer law, and private international law. Yves has pleaded before all civil courts of Quebec and before the Supreme Court of Canada. Mason, Steven G. McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (416) 601-7703 smason@mccarthy.ca Chair of the firm's National Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Acted as lead trial and appellate counsel in a broad range of IP cases in Ontario, British Columbia, in the Federal Courts and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Former Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Faculty of Law where he taught Intellectual Property Law for over a decade. Lexpert-ranked leading litigation lawyers