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Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers www.lexpert.ca 47 Chapple, Bruce A. McMillan LLP > (416) 865-7024 bruce.chapple@mcmillan.ca Bruce Chapple is a trusted business law advisor and partner at McMillan LLP. Since July, 2024, Bruce has also been the Managing Partner and CEO of the firm. In his practice, Bruce regularly leads multidisciplinary teams for private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and complex commercial matters in the Canadian market and Canadian issues associated with international transactions. His clients include domestic and international businesses. Bruce regularly works with public and private corporations, private equity funds, and other clients. He has experience across numerous key industries, including private equity, technology, pharmaceutical, health care, retail, financial, service industries, automotive, and insurance. Bruce held a number of internal leadership positions at McMillan before becoming Managing Partner, including on the Firm's Allocation Committee and Professional Services Committee, as well as positions as Chief Firm (Engagement) Partner, Chief Finance Partner, and co-leader of the Firm's Technology and Technology Transactions Group. Bruce is also a member of the Board of Directors of Alpine Canada, which oversees Canada's national ski, ski-cross and para-alpine teams, and a former member and past chair of the Board of Governors of Royal St. Georges College. Chatwin, Keith R. Stikeman Elliott LLP > (403) 266-9088 kchatwin@stikeman.com Keith Chatwin is head of the corporate group in Calgary and a member of the firm's partnership board. His practice involves a broad array of securities and general corporate transactions, ranging from public and private debt and equity financing to Mergers & Acquisitions, corporate restructuring and recapitalizations, and shareholder activism and defence. Keith has acted in respect of a number of contested and uncontested takeover situations, as well as a number of corporate and intercorporate arrangements, including reverse takeovers, spin-outs, and asset acquisitions and divestitures. Frequently advising international entities in connection with strategic transactions and project development in Canada, he is head of Stikeman Elliott's Korea group and an active member of the firm's Japan group. Chiasson, Derek Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (514) 847-6114 derek.chiasson@nortonrosefulbright.com Derek Chiasson is a partner in the Norton Rose Fulbright tax team. His principal focus is on domestic and international tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and corporate reorganizations, for public and private corporations. He also regularly advises on tax disputes, commodity taxes, and executive compensation. Chiasson leverages his broad experience to bridge tax, finance, and legal aspects of the transactions and reorganizations he works on, while maintaining strong technical skills, attention to detail, and creativity. He also has industry experience, having served as vice-president, corporate development/strategy and legal affairs of a multi-national US public company in the video game industry listed on the NASDAQ exchange. Ciardullo, John J. Stikeman Elliott LLP > (416) 869-5235 jciardullo@stikeman.com John Ciardullo is managing partner of the Toronto office, where he is responsible for overseeing management, strategic direction, and client service. He is also a member of the partnership board, executive committee, management committee, and the diversity, equity & inclusion committee. He is former head of the corporate department and the capital markets and public Mergers & Acquisitions groups. John has experience in a broad range of corporate transactions and has led some of Canada's most noteworthy domestic and cross-border M&A and restructuring transactions. He has significant experience advising Canadian boards, special committees, banks, regulatory authorities, and governments on a wide variety of matters, including compliance with legal, regulatory, and fiduciary issues, crisis management, and transactional matters such as acquisition and defence strategy. John's stand-out M&A work is recognized by the legal industry's most reliable and trusted sources. In 2021, John was the only Canadian named among the Top 50 Global M&A Lawyers by Global M&A Network, which identifies highly respected, successful, and innovative lawyers from worldwide deal-making communities. Clifford, John F. McMillan LLP > (416) 865-7134 john.clifford@mcmillan.ca John's practice is focused on M&A transactions, complex commercial matters and reorganizations, and competition law matters. He has extensive experience advising a diverse range of PE and other clients on domestic and cross-border deals across many industries. Recognized internationally for his M&A and competition law expertise and experience, Who's Who Legal identifies John as one of the top M&A lawyers in Canada and states that John is "top notch by all accounts", "very client focused" and "always delivers". John is a long-time member of the ABA M&A Committee. He was the inaugural Chair of a working group of Canadian M&A deal lawyers that studies and develops reports for the ABA's M&A Committee on trends in deal terms used in Canadian private company acquisitions, and was Chair of that working group for seven years. Currently, he is Co-Chair of a Task Force that is updating the ABA's model asset purchase agreement. Over a 5 year period, John was named to the prestigious global list of OUTstanding Leading 100 LGBT+ Executives, in recognition of his business achievements and impact on LGBT inclusion within McMillan and externally. Previously he received a Lexpert Zenith Award and an Out On Bay Street "Leaders To Be Proud Of " Award.