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CLASS ACTION David R. Byers Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5697 Fax: (416) 861-0445 Toronto dbyers@stikeman.com John A. Campion Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Tel: (416) 865-4357 Fax: (416) 364-7813 Toronto jcampion@fasken.com Laura F. Cooper Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Tel: (416) 865-5471 Fax: (416) 364-7813 Toronto lcooper@fasken.com Partner and head of the firm's Litigation Group in Toronto and co-chair of the practice nationally. Highly experienced in complex commercial litigation, including product liability, securities, insolvency and insurance, as well as in domestic and international arbitration. Extensive advocacy experience appearing before all levels of trial and appellate court in Ontario. Acts for companies and their management in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, financial services and tobacco. Has acted for both lenders and debtors in several court-supervised restructurings. He is recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada; the International Who's Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers and Commercial Litigators; Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business; The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Crossborder Litigation Lawyers in Canada; The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory; and The Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers. Recognized as one of Canada's leading trial, arbitration and appellate counsel with more than 100 complex trials, applications and arbitrations, 80 administrative tribunal hearings, and 60 appeals, including the Canadian Provincial and Federal Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, in class-action defence, corporate, commercial, securities, injunctions, corporate governance, constitutional, product liability, mining, competition, energy and arbitration. Class actions include Bre-X for Nesbitt Burns, Boston Scientific, VIA Rail, Air Canada, UPS and The Dominion. Public inquiries include United Nations Oil for Food and Gomery Inquiry. Former President of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Chair of Fasken Martineau, Adjunct Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall and the University of Toronto, President of the Empire Club, and a Director of the CBC. A frequent lecturer and author. Recognized in Chambers Global, The Best Lawyers in Canada, Practical Law Company, Euromoney and several Lexpert® publications. Called to the Bar in Ontario and Northwest Territories in 1974. Partner. Chair of firm's Ontario Litigation group, Co-Chair of the firm's Class Actions group. Experienced commercial litigator. Extensive experience in class actions in competition, securities, product liability, mass torts and employment law, including in respect of Part XXX.1 securities and common law claims, numerous cartel cases (including LCD, DRAM, SRAM, ODD, air cargo, packaged ice, vitamins and rubber chemicals) and claims related to environmental contamination, medical devices and insurance. Regularly represents clients in complex multi-jurisdictional proceedings and complex commercial disputes including with respect to shareholder issues, distributorship disputes and breach of fiduciary duties. Experienced in complex alternate dispute resolution processes. Included in the 2013 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory for Class Actions. Frequent author and presenter on class actions, securities and competition litigation matters and frequent skills trainer at The Advocates' Society. Taught class actions course at Queens University Faculty of Law. Tom Curry Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Tel: (416) 865-3096 Fax: (416) 865-9010 Toronto tcurry@litigate.com 56 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Partner. Recognized nationally as a leading trial and appellate counsel, Tom Curry has a long record of high-profile success in commercial litigation, class actions, arbitrations, business disputes, administrative law, judicial review, intellectual property and professional liability cases. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he is a regular speaker on a wide variety of subjects relating to trial practice and substantive law. Curry is also a contributing editor of Corporate Liability, a journal devoted to examining issues of liability under criminal and regulatory law.