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CORPORATE COMMERCIAL Linda L. Fuerst Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Tel: (416) 865-3091 Fax: (416) 865-9010 Toronto lfuerst@litigate.com Mark A. Gelowitz Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-4743 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto mgelowitz@osler.com Partner. Linda Fuerst's practice covers a broad range of commercial and professional liability matters, with a focus on securities litigation and regulatory issues, including class proceedings. She has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and in connection with proceedings of the Ontario, Alberta and Nova Scotia Securities Commissions, as well as Market Regulation Services (now IIROC), the Mutual Fund Dealers Association and the Competition Bureau. Fuerst also consults on internal investigations into insider trading, backdating of stock options and related matters. She has earned a Distinguished Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and a Gold Key Award from the Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Association. Mark A. Gelowitz is a partner in the litigation department of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. He is Chair of the firm's National Corporate Governance and Securities Litigation Group and Co-chair of the firm's International Commercial Arbitration Group. Gelowitz has a business-focused civil litigation, appellate litigation and international commercial arbitration practice. His cases have covered a wide variety of issues in corporate and commercial law including mergers & acquisitions litigation, directors' & officers' liability, oppression remedy, libel and slander, product liability, mining litigation and class-actions procedure. He completed the BCL degree at Oxford University in 1989 between clerking for the Chief Justice of Saskatchewan and the late Justice Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada. Gelowitz has had a number of legal publications including a book co-authored with the late Justice Sopinka entitled The Conduct of an Appeal, Third Edition (LexisNexis 2012). Gelowitz maintains a blog on Canadian appellate law and practice at Conductofanappeal.com. Peter Griffin Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Tel: (416) 865-2921 Fax: (416) 865-3558 Toronto pgriffin@litigate.com James H. Grout Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP Tel: (416) 304-0557 Fax: (416) 304-1313 Toronto jgrout@tgf.ca 78 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Founding partner. Peter Griffin is recognized by his peers as one of the top litigators in Canada. He has extensive experience in complex cross-border litigation, especially as it relates to class proceedings and insolvency and restructuring. He regularly advises the boards of national and multinational companies. He also represents clients in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution proceedings and acts as an arbitrator in commercial disputes. As a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he is constantly sought out as an expert speaker on advocacy, shareholder disputes, class actions, professional liability and insolvency and restructuring. Jim Grout is a founding partner of TGF who is internationally recognized for his expertise in the fields of insolvency, restructuring and related litigation. He has extensive experience in the automotive, insurance, mining, securities firms and hedge fund sectors and has represented the vast majority of the receivers of securities firms in Ontario. He regularly advises the Ontario Securities Commission on insolvency matters and has represented the Securities and Exchange Commission in cross-border proceedings. Grout is recognized as a leading restructuring and insolvency practitioner by The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global, Practical Law Company's Cross-Border Handbook, the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada and Law Business Research's Who's Who International. He is a member of the Insolvency Section of the Ontario Bar Association, INSOL International and the Insolvency Institute of Canada. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1983.