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CORPORATE COMMERCIAL Patricia D.S. Jackson Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7323 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto tjackson@torys.com Katherine L. Kay Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5507 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto kkay@stikeman.com John A. Keefe Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-4268 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Toronto jkeefe@goodmans.ca David W. Kent McMillan LLP Tel: (416) 865-7143 Fax: (416) 865-7048 Toronto david.kent@mcmillan.ca 80 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Senior counsel with a broad litigation practice including corporate/commercial, class actions, defamation, securities, administrative/regulatory, intellectual property, professional negligence and general counsel work. Appeared at every level of Ontario court, Federal Court of Canada, Supreme Court of Canada, administrative tribunals and Inquiry Commissions. Commission Counsel to Arbour Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women. Widely recognized as leading counsel including Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Chambers & Partners' Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business; Woodward White's The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014 Toronto Class Action Litigation Lawyer of the Year. Recipient, 2009 Law Society of Upper Canada Medal. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Director, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Former member, Ontario Judicial Council. Former director, The Advocates' Society Legal Education and Action Fund Foundation. Senior Chair, University of Toronto Tribunal. Lecturer at numerous law schools and professional bodies. Ontario Bar, 1979. Partner practicing complex commercial litigation, regularly involving the overlap between regulatory, civil and criminal law regimes. Heads the firm's competition litigation practice and a member of its partnership board and executive committee. Described by Chambers Global as "virtually insurmountable in the area of competition litigation" and by Global Competition Review as "arguably the best competition litigator Canada has to offer." Major focus is class-actions defence, including competition, product liability, franchise and consumer cases with an emphasis on strategic responses, directing multiple class actions across several jurisdictions and effective advocacy before relevant courts and tribunals. Multiple recognitions, including The Best Lawyers in Canada; The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers, Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada; and Chambers Global's The Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for Business, among others. Litigation partner. Practices corporate commercial litigation. Emphasis on complex commercial international disputes, white-collar crime and securities fraud, and international arbitration. Counsel and arbitrator in many domestic and international arbitrations, including arbitration under the rules of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, the London Court of International Arbitration, the Zurich Chamber of Commerce and the International Commercial Arbitration Acts of Ontario and British Columbia. Member of the Canadian National Committee of the ICC and Panel member of ICDR. Also involved in matters relating to corporate governance, internal investigations, cross-border investigations, employee dishonesty, conflict of interest, money laundering and the bribery of foreign officials. Has appeared before the SCC, the FCC and all levels of court in Ontario and numerous administrative tribunals. Past Secretary of the Business Crime Committee of the IBA. Former Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at the University of Toronto Law School for more than 15 years. Ontario Bar, 1976. David Kent is Co-chair of the firm's Dispute Resolution Group and Co-chair of its Class Action Practice, and a member of its Competition and IP groups. His practice emphasizes complex litigation, including competition, copyright, commercial and regulatory disputes. His extensive class-action experience includes more than 40 national cases involving competition, consumer, privacy and securities claims in a wide range of industries, raising issues including cross-border discovery, settlement and certification. He has been counsel in many competition cases, including more than 25 cartel class actions (e.g., vitamins, rubber chemicals, cross-border vehicle sales, credit cards, e-books, Gmail and computer components such as DRAM, SRAM, LCDs and CRTs), as well as private actions, contested mergers and Competition Bureau investigations. Kent taught ADR at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto) and Queen's University Law School (Kingston) for nine years. Member, CBA, IPIC and ABA (section on antitrust). LLB (Hons.) and Dean's Key, University of Toronto. Ontario Bar (1983).