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54 www.lexpert.ca Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers Dunlop, David R. McMillan LLP > (416) 865-7175 david.dunlop@mcmillan.ca David Dunlop is a senior corporate partner and multiple-term member of McMillan's Executive Committee and Board of Partners. David primarily assists clients in the acquisition and sale of businesses, private equity transactions, corporate finance, corporate governance, and outsourcing. He has extensive experience in negotiating cross-border and domestic transactions and complex commercial arrangements. David has experience across numerous industries including defense, aerospace, manufacturing, logistics, food, entertainment, technology, commercial/industrial real estate, healthcare, and energy. He has volunteered his time and expertise on behalf of the Canadian Cancer Society, Medecins Sans Frontieres International, Junior Achievement of Canada, and United Way of Peel. In addition to his LLB, David holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto and prior to attending Queen's University Law School was employed as a sales representative by Xerox Canada and Hallmark Cards. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1989. Dupuis, Andrea Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP > (514) 841-6468 adupuis@dwpv.com Andrea advises on public and private mergers and acquisitions, fund formations, private equity investment transactions, and corporate reorganizations, in Canada and abroad. Clients benefit from her strategic insights, her collaborative approach to negotiations, and her consistently excellent technical skills. As a result, Andrea is a go-to person for many clients looking to raise private equity and other types of private funds in Canada. Those clients look to Andrea for her excellent judgment and effective negotiation skills in the context of their negotiations with key investors. For a period of three months in 2018, Andrea was seconded to the legal department of one of Canada's largest institutional investors, where she acted on a number of private equity investments. Dyck, Michael Stikeman Elliott LLP > (403) 266-9030 mdyck@stikeman.com Michael Dyck is Managing Partner of the Calgary office, head of the Real Estate and Banking & Finance Groups in Calgary. As part of his commercial real estate practice, Michael provides advice in connection with a broad range of real estate, development, and construction transactions. He acts for purchasers and vendors with respect to acquisitions and dispositions of multi-tenant office complexes, industrial properties, and development sites, as well as acting for lenders and borrowers in connection with various types of commercial real estate financings, including construction loans, acquisition loans, leasehold financings, and mortgage bond financings. Michael also has an extensive leasing practice, acting for landlords and tenants in connection with office, industrial, and retail leases, as well as long-term ground leases. He also acts for owners and contractors in connection with construction projects, including in the real estate industry and the oil and gas industry. Michael has significant experience in providing advice with respect to ownership arrangements, including co-ownerships and limited partnerships. In his banking practice, Michael provides advice in all matters relating to banking transactions. Eisenbraun, Richard Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (403) 232-9648 reisenbraun@blg.com Richard Eisenbraun is a trusted advisor who assists his clients navigate significant situations across a variety of sectors and circumstances. He draws on more than 15 years of experience practising tax and corporate law at BLG, and serving on a variety of boards, to bring a unique perspective to complex situations, such as generational shift in private companies, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border investment, disputes, and business growth strategies. Eisenbraun is commonly retained in the context of the following: private company restructuring and succession planning; major purchase, sale, and takeover transactions; general corporate and commercial matters; shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, and joint venture agreements; optimizing transaction and financing structures, including investment funds, debt and equity financings, spin-outs, inbound and outbound structures, captive insurance and restructuring insolvent companies; executive and employee compensation plans; estate planning, including family trusts, wills, life insurance, and international planning; charitable registration for charitable organizations; tax advice, due diligence, and opinions on a variety of matters; and dispute resolution. Elharrar, Sarah Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP > (416) 367-7603 selharrar@dwpv.com Sarah is a partner in Davies' Corporate practice with a focus on fund formation and mergers and acquisitions. She regularly acts for sponsors of and investors in private equity, venture capital, debt, real estate, and other closed-end funds, and assists clients on a variety of transactions, including private equity, venture capital, private credit, and real estate fund formation, startup financing, mergers and acquisitions, and compensation and governance arrangements. She works with clients in a number of industries, including the private equity, venture, real estate, and technology sectors. Sarah is a former adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she taught Financing Technological Innovation as part of the Global Professional Master of Laws program in Innovation, Law and Technology. Select Recognition: Chambers Canada; IFLR1000.