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SECURITIES Jeffrey S. Leon Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (416) 777-7472 Fax: (416) 863-1716 Toronto leonj@bennettjones.com Larry P. Lowenstein Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6454 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto llowenstein@osler.com Alan H. Mark Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-4264 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Toronto amark@goodmans.ca Kelley M. McKinnon Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Tel: (416) 862-4432 Fax: (416) 862-7661 Toronto kelley.mckinnon@gowlings.com 128 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Co-head of Litigation.General domestic, international and cross-border litigation practice before courts and arbitration tribunals. Extensive trial and appellate experience. Has acted in securities, commercial, corporate, class proceedings, product liability, professional negligence and administrative law matters. Recipient of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013); Catzman Award for Professionalism and Civility (2010); and the Law Society Medal (2005). Past President of TAS(O); Regent and Fellow of the ACTL (past Vice Chair of the Access to Justice Committee, past Chair of the Ontario Province and the Canada–United States Committees); Director and Fellow of the IATL; Member of ISOB; Past Chair of the Board of Directors of Pro Bono Law Ontario; Honorary Member of COMBAR; Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation by LSUC. Senior partner in Osler's Litigation Group and Chair, National Litigation Department, from 2005 to 2010. Practice focuses on complex litigation and arbitrations at trial and on appeal. Recent engagements have involved class actions, corporate governance matters, securities litigation and enforcement, fiduciary claims, contested mergers & acquisitions, franchising disputes and environmental liability. Listed in many leading legal publications, including The 2013 Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and profiled as a recommended leading practitioner in the 2013 Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory for Litigation (Corporate Commercial, Directors' & Officers' Liability, and Securities) Class Actions and Franchising Law. Frequent conference presenter and editor of Corporate Litigation, a quarterly publication. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1983 and received law degrees from Oxford University (1979) and the University of Toronto (1981). 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. A recognized securities litigation expert, Kelley McKinnon also holds the position of Senior Deputy Commissioner of Competition with Canada's Competition Bureau, a two-year appointment which commenced August, 2012. In this role, she oversees the Mergers Branch and sits on the Senior Management Committee. Prior to this appointment, McKinnon was head of the Gowlings Securities Litigation Group. As former Deputy Director of Enforcement and Chief Litigation Counsel at the Ontario Securities Commission, McKinnon brings unprecedented insight into securities litigation and dealing with multiple regulators in Canada and abroad. Her experience in complex securities litigation includes appearing in the Supreme Court of Canada for Teachers' Pension Plan Board as intervenor on the constitutional reference regarding a national securities commission, and on the OSC intervention on Danier Leather at the Supreme Court of Canada.