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Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers www.lexpert.ca 97 Thiessen, Ted McMillan LLP > (403) 531-8737 ted.thiessen@mcmillan.ca Ted Thiessen is a tax lawyer, practising in McMillan's Calgary and Vancouver offices. He regularly advises Canadian- based multi-national groups and both domestic and foreign private equity investors with respect to the tax aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and financing transactions. His practice focuses on transactions involving the resource sector, where he represents a number of clients with upstream and midstream related assets and investments, and the technology and entertainment sectors, where he regularly helps foreign clients structure their Canadian operations and employment arrangements. Timms, Stefan Borden Ladner Gervais LLP > (416) 367-6130 stimms@blg.com Stefan Timms is a partner in BLG's Toronto office. He is extensively involved in all aspects of corporate and commercial law and provides legal services to a broad range of clients, including private companies, publicly traded companies, entrepreneurs, startups, private equity funds, and investors. His practice consists primarily of M&A transactional work, financings, recapitalizations, and reviewing and drafting commercial agreements for corporate clients. Timms regularly advises foreign clients conducting business in Canada or expanding organically by investment or by acquisition into Canada. Timms is a trusted business advisor to many of his clients and is recognized as a creative problem solver that is committed to providing practical, commercial, and actionable advice to his clients in a responsive and cost-effective manner. Timms has many awards and recognitions, including being recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada. Called to the Ontario bar in 2006. Trifiro, Francis Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (514) 847-6118 francis.trifiro@nortonrosefulbright.com Francis Trifiro has an active banking and financial services practice. He represents Canadian and foreign lenders and borrowers involved in syndicated loans, project financings, asset-based financings, acquisition financings, and other private funding transactions. He is responsible for negotiating, preparing, and implementing various aspects of these transactions, such as credit agreements, intercreditor agreements, sureties, and refinancing and debt restructuring documentation. Financial institutions and companies regularly call upon Trifiro to negotiate ISDA agreements, the schedules to those agreements, and credit support agreements. He also advises his clients on a wide range of derivative instruments, specifically interest rate and cross-currency swaps, futures contracts, and foreign exchange agreements. Turcotte, Maxime Stikeman Elliott LLP > (514) 397-2421 mturcotte@stikeman.com Maxime Turcotte is a partner in the corporate group and a member of the firm's partnership board. He has a diverse national and cross-border practice supporting our clients, their boards, and special committees with complex and strategic transactions including private & public Mergers & Acquisitions, corporate & fund finance, and project development. Maxime has been recognized as a leading lawyer in these areas by various industry directories such as Lexpert's Leading 500 Cross-Border Lawyers: A Guide to Doing Business in Canada, The Best Lawyers in Canada, and the IFLR 1000. Maxime has developed industry experience in various sectors including in professional services, infrastructure and renewable energy, financial services, and insurance. He is committed to offering clients with the best tailored work that the firm has to offer, and provide them with proactive, precise, and practical advice to meet their business needs. Ungerman, Troy Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (416) 216-1862 troy.ungerman@nortonrosefulbright.com Troy Ungerman's practice focuses on domestic, international, and cross-border private mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, post-merger integration, strategic alliances, and corporate reorganizations. He has extensive experience leading and advising clients in connection with complex multi-jurisdictional transactions involving multiple stakeholders. He provides transactional as well as corporate and commercial advice to clients in a wide array of industries, including aviation, technology, retail, infrastructure, transport, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare. He also leads Norton Rose Fulbright's Canadian transactional representation and warranty insurance practice in which he routinely advises insurers in the underwriting of representation and warranty insurance policies. He is Norton Rose Fulbright's chief diversity and inclusion officer, co-chairman of the firm's Canadian private M&A team, founder of the firm's Canadian Pride Network, and an elected member of the firm's Canadian partnership committee. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and the Canadian Bar Association.