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SECURITIES Joseph Groia Groia & Company Professional Corporation Tel: (416) 203-4472 Fax: (416) 203-9231 Toronto jgroia@groiaco.com David A. Hausman Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Tel: (416) 868-3486 Fax: (416) 364-7813 Toronto dhausman@fasken.com Peter F.C. Howard Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5613 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto phoward@stikeman.com Patricia D.S. Jackson Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7323 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto tjackson@torys.com 126 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Joe Groia is a principal of Groia & Company Professional Corporation. He practices securities litigation, acting as counsel in a wide range of civil, quasi-criminal, criminal and administrative cases. Groia has acted as counsel in many of Canada's most important securities cases, including, Asbestos, Bre-X, Canadian Tire, Cinar, Hollinger, Torstar/ Southam, Phillip Services and YBM. In 1985, Groia joined the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) as the associate general counsel responsible for litigation matters, and subsequently, from October 1987 until March 1990, he was the OSC's Director of Enforcement. He joined Heenan Blaikie's Toronto office in 1990, where he practiced corporate and securities litigation as a partner until he left to start up Groia & Company Professional Corporation on January 1, 2000. In January 2008, Groia was featured as a premier Canadian securities lawyer in Canadian Lawyer magazine. He was ranked as one of Canada's 500 Leading Lawyers since 2000 (Lexpert®) and named as one of Canada›s 25 Most Influential Lawyers in 2013 (Canadian Lawyer magazine). Practices exclusively in the field of securities litigation. Regularly represents investment dealers, public companies, investment funds, directors and officers in a wide range of matters, including regulatory investigations and proceedings before provincial securities commissions, all Canadian stock exchanges and self-regulatory organizations. Experienced in representing bidders and targets in contested mergers and acquisition transactions. From 1994 to 1996, served as an enforcement counsel at the Ontario Securities Commission and thereafter continued to act for the Commission in a variety of enforcement matters. Advises foreign regulators on securities regulation and enforcement matters. Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Law School where he co-leads the Securities Law in the Adversarial Setting course. Recognized by The Best Lawyers in Canada for Securities Law (2011‒2013). Included in the Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory (2010-2013) for Litigation ‒ Securities and Litigation ‒ Directors' & Officers' Liability. Called to the Bar of Ontario in 1991. Partner in Stikeman Elliott's Toronto office with an emphasis on commercial litigation including securities law, class actions, commercial contracts, oppression and other types of shareholder and/or joint venture litigation and insolvency matters. Experienced in domestic and international arbitrations, mediation and alternate dispute resolution. He has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the trial and appellate levels of courts in Ontario, as well as numerous administrative tribunals including the Ontario Securities Commission. He has also appeared in the courts of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. He is recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada; Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business; The Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; the Lexpert ® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada; the International Who's Who of Commercial Litigators; and The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory, among others. 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: 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.