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CORPORATE COMMERCIAL Alan H. Mark Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-4264 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Toronto amark@goodmans.ca Partner in the Litigation group at Goodmans. Practice includes corporate-commercial litigation, class actions and electricity law and regulation. Corporate-commercial litigation practice focuses on corporate governance, corporate finance, securities, financial services, and restructuring and insolvency. Class-action practice includes securities, product liability and environmental claims. Also carries on a substantial electricity and regulatory practice, regularly representing clients in the electricity sector before the Ontario Energy Board and the courts. Has appeared at all levels of the Ontario and Federal Courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, before the courts of several other provinces and before various administrative tribunals. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Director and President of The Advocates' Society. Frequent speaker and CLE instructor. Recommended counsel in numerous leading directories and was named Canada's Energy/Resource "Litigator of the Year" at the first Benchmark Canada Awards in 2013. William C. McDowell Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Tel: (416) 865-2949 Fax: (416) 865-2850 Toronto wmcdowell@litigate.com W.A. Derry Millar WeirFoulds LLP Tel: (416) 947-5021 Fax: (416) 365-1876 Toronto dmillar@weirfoulds.com Paul F. Monahan Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Tel: (416) 865-4425 Fax: (416) 364-7813 Toronto pmonahan@fasken.com Partner. Will McDowell's wide-ranging practice has included many landmark cases, most notably in the Supreme Court of Canada, focusing on professional discipline, libel and criminal law. From 2005 to 2008, he was Canada's Associate Deputy Minister of Justice, with responsibility for civil litigation, national security and issues involving federal agencies. He subsequently assisted Ontario's Truth and Reconciliation Commission inquiry into Native residential schools, served as amicus to the Superior Court with regard to land occupations in Brantford and was chief counsel to the City of Mississauga Judicial Inquiry. McDowell's work in resolving the Maher Arar v. Canada case was honored by a Department of Justice National Award. McDowell is an elected Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. Partner. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1974. Practices exclusively civil litigation and administrative law. Has appeared in all levels of court in Ontario, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Federal Court, and many administrative tribunals. Acted as lead commission counsel for the Ipperwash Inquiry. Acts as an arbitrator and mediator. Is a fellow of the ACTL. Millar is a former Treasurer (President) of The Law Society of Upper Canada, the governing body for Ontario lawyers and paralegals. He was first elected a bencher (Director) of the LSUC in 1995 and has been Chair and Vice Chair of a wide variety of LSUC Committees and a Director of the Lawyers' Professional Indemnity Company. Millar was a member of the Board of Legal Aid Ontario from January 1999 to June 2008 and was reappointed a director in April 2011. Has been a speaker and delivered papers at a wide variety of legal seminars and has contributed to legal publications. He was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. Paul Monahan's litigation career spans over 25 years. His practice involves a wide range of business and administrative law cases in misrepresentation, breach of confidence, breach of contract, financial institution claims including investment advisor disputes, securities, employment law, insurance, shareholder disputes, fiduciary duties, professional negligence and professional discipline. Has significant public and constitutional law experience, including as counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in a number of important cases. An experienced counsel at mediations, arbitrations and trials, Monahan has appeared before many administrative tribunals and various levels of courts, including the Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal, the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Included in The Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada for Corporate Commercial Litigation. Recognized by Chambers Global for Dispute Resolution in Ontario (2012‒2013). LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 83