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CORPORATE COMMERCIAL Lenard M. Sali, QC Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Tel: (403) 232-9701 Fax: (403) 266-1395 Calgary lsali@blg.com Lead counsel. Practices primarily in the areas of commercial, energy and securities litigation. Has made numerous appearances before all levels of court, including Court of Queen's Bench, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Canada. Has also appeared before various regulatory boards and tribunals, including energy-related tribunals. Represents corporate, commercial and oil & gas companies, as well as private citizens. Has acted as counsel in a number of leading cases. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Litigation Counsel of America. Called to the Alberta Bar in 1973. Appointed QC in 1989. David Tupper Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (403) 260-9722 Fax: (403) 260-9700 Calgary david.tupper@blakes.com Has a broad corporate commercial litigation practice, including securities, insurance, energy, construction and environmental areas. Clients include banks, energy, construction and insurance companies, trusts and individuals. Successfully acted in trials, appeals, domestic/international arbitrations, regulatory proceedings in matters involving oppression actions, option valuation, fiduciary duties, energy disputes, surrounding leases, unitization and ownership of pools, natural gas trading and construction matters. In the securities realm, has been involved in hostile takeover fights, proxy battles, contested arrangements, disputes over voting classes and valuation of debentures. Named one of the Top 40 Under 40 Calgarians for leadership to Calgary in 2005. Instructor in Trial Advocacy for Advocate Society, instructor in Bar admission course in chambers advocacy, professional responsibility. Frequent conference speaker in construction area, contracts area and supply chain area. Ken Bailey, QC Parlee McLaws LLP Tel: (780) 423-8568 Fax: (780) 423-2870 Edmonton kbailey@parlee.com Daniela F. Bassan Stewart McKelvey Tel: (902) 420-3354 Fax: (902) 420-1417 Halifax dbassan@stewartmckelvey.com Ken Bailey is counsel in the firm's Edmonton office, where he practices civil and commercial litigation. His practice includes commercial, construction, product liability, professional liability, environmental, and insurance defense work as well as pursuing subrogation rights on behalf of insurers. Bailey's experience as an arbitrator covers a wide variety of commercial disputes. He was arbitrator on a multi-million dollar construction dispute between a municipality and an international building contractor, which involved claims of delay, impact costs, and acceleration. Bailey also participated as a member of an arbitration panel hearing for a multi-million dollar construction and insurance related dispute, arising from the construction of an oil sands extraction and processing facility. He was called to the Alberta (1967), Northwest Territories (1979) and Nunavut (2002) Bars, and appointed a QC in 1987. He was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1995. Daniela Bassan is a partner and Trade-mark Agent (Canada) with Stewart McKelvey in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a member of the Nova Scotia and Ontario Bars. She holds an LLM from Harvard Law School (2002), LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School (1996) and BA in modern languages from the University of Toronto (1993). She was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1997. Her other languages are French, Italian and Spanish. She has a litigation practice that covers a variety of intellectual property matters, particularly copyright and trade-mark litigation before provincial superior and federal courts. Her practice also includes complex e-discovery, cross-border disputes, constructions claims and arbitration proceedings. She is former Chair, Intellectual Property Section of the Canadian Bar Association (Nova Scotia). She is a member of the Board of Neptune Theatre and President of the Harvard Club of Atlantic Canada. She has presented and published materials at international, national and regional events on a variety of intellectual property and litigation-related topics. LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 93