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Lexpert-ranked leading finance and M&A lawyers www.lexpert.ca 91 Sculnick, Jeremy Stikeman Elliott LLP > (514) 397-3329 jsculnick@stikeman.com Jeremy Sculnick is a partner in the Corporate Commercial group whose practice focuses on Canadian and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, private equity, and corporate finance transactions. He works with domestic and multi-national private and public companies as well as investors across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on life sciences and technology. Jeremy also has extensive experience in venture capital financings, strategic investment transactions, public company matters, and corporate governance. He is a member of the students & stagiaires committee, which oversees recruitment of new lawyers for the Montreal office. Seager, Robert A. Voorheis & Co. LLP > (416) 947-1449 rseager@voorco.com Rob is a leading special situations advisor and has been centrally involved in directing high profile shareholder disputes, proxy contests, M&A transactions, special committee mandates, internal and independent corporate investigations, and complex restructurings. Rob regularly serves as a trusted strategic advisor to institutional and other significant stakeholders, boards of directors, and executive management teams to address their most important opportunities and crisis situations. In 2023, Rob was appointed to the OSC's Securities Advisory Committee, a committee of securities practitioners and other industry experts established to advise the OSC and its staff on a variety of matters including policy initiatives and capital markets trends. Previously, Rob practised securities law at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP and, in 2015, completed a secondment with the Office of M&A at the OSC. Rob received his JD from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University with a specialization in corporate law, his international business law certification from the Global Law Program at the Bader International Study Centre, and his bachelor of commerce from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Rob has also completed levels I and II of the CFA Program. LAWYER TO WATCH Seddon, Elly Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (604) 640-4234 eseddon@blg.com Elly Seddon is a partner in the Financial Services Group. Her practice focuses on corporate finance and commercial lending. Her expertise includes innovation and technology finance, acquisition finance, asset-based lending, environmentally linked sustainability lending, commercial real estate finance, commercial mortgage-backed securities lending, insurance finance, capital call facilities, and mezzanine lending. She advises financial institutions, private lenders, corporate borrowers, and private funds on domestic or cross-border bilateral and syndicated loan transactions, as well as complex intercreditor arrangements. Seddon's expertise extends to include corporate restructurings, DIP financings, bankruptcies, and receiverships under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. Past president of the Association of Women in Finance. Seddon is fluent in both French and Farsi. Education: JD (Queen's University). Admitted to the British Columbia bar in 2013. Seifred, Brett Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP > (416) 863-5531 bseifred@dwpv.com Brett is a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Capital Markets & Securities practices at Davies. He acts for clients in a broad range of transactions, including the sale and acquisition of public and private companies, public offerings of debt and equity, private placements, going-private transactions, and corporate reorganizations. Brett advises public companies on Canadian securities regulation and corporate governance matters on an ongoing basis. He works with clients across a variety of industries, including telecommunications and media, manufacturing, energy, mining, and private equity. Brett previously taught an advanced course in corporate law at Queen's University's Faculty of Law. Select Recognition: Chambers Canada; IFLR1000; The Legal 500 Canada; The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory; Lexpert Special Editions: Finance, M&A; The Best Lawyers in Canada. Shapiro, Elliot Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (514) 847-4516 elliot.shapiro@nortonrosefulbright.com Elliot Shapiro's practice is transaction oriented, with a focus on corporate and securities law, public and private M&A, infrastructure, and P3 financing. He is renowned as one of Canada's leading securities lawyers as a member of the Quebec securities regulator's (AMF) Financial Advisory Committee for over five years. Shapiro regularly advises public companies and their boards of directors and committees on strategic, disclosure and governance matters and he has also set up an infrastructure fund and worked on various licensing and commercial arrangements. In recent years, he has been involved in a variety of high-profile, large-value, and/or particularly complex public and private M&A transactions across various sectors and has led multiple cross-border Canada-US corporate finance transactions both on a public and private placement basis.