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SECURITIES Peter C. Wardle Wardle Daley Bernstein Bieber LLP Tel: (416) 351-2771 Fax: (416) 351-9196 Toronto pwardle@wdblaw.ca Benjamin Zarnett Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-4204 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Toronto bzarnett@goodmans.ca William Brock, AdE Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (514) 841-6438 Fax: (514) 841-6499 Montréal wbrock@dwpv.com Julie-Martine Loranger Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Tel: (514) 392-9552 Fax: (514) 878-1450 Montréal juliemartine.loranger@gowlings.com 130 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Peter Wardle is a founding partner of Wardle Daley Bernstein Bieber LLP, a leading Toronto litigation boutique which has a hard-earned reputation for its work in corporate commercial litigation, securities litigation and enforcement, class actions, directors' and officers' liability and professional liability. Wardle helped build this reputation over the course of many arbitrations, applications, trials and appeals involving shareholder and partnership disputes, securities, D&O liability, competition, professional negligence, estates, and real estate development. In addition, Wardle has appeared before a wide variety of regulatory tribunals, including the Ontario Securities Commission and the Discipline Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Wardle's articles have been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ontario, British Columbia and New Brunswick Courts of Appeal, and many lower courts. Wardle's peers confirmed his standing at the Ontario Bar by electing him a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada — Ontario's self-governing law society. Partner. Practices as trial and appellate counsel, emphasizing commercial cases involving public companies, financial institutions and government. Has practiced before the SCC, FCC, all levels of courts in Ontario and many administrative tribunals. Lead counsel in some of the most important, high-profile cases that have recently been decided in Canada, including the litigation involving the restructuring of the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper market, the contest over the acquisition of BCE, the Danier Leather class action, and the Indalex priority dispute. Awarded 2006 Law Society Medal (highest honor) by LSUC, the 2007 Award of Distinction by TLA for outstanding contributions to the legal profession and the 2009 OBA Award for Excellence in Civil Litigation. Named "Toronto Litigator of the Year" for Bet-the-Company (2013/2010), Corporate/Commercial (2012) and Class Action (2011) by The Best Lawyers in Canada. Named "Ontario Litigator of the Year" at the first Benchmark Canada Awards (2013). Past President of the TAS(O). ACTL Fellow. Extensive list of publications and public speeches. Partner. Practice focused on major commercial, corporate and securities litigation relating to M&A, commercial contract disputes, fraud claims and Mareva-type injunctions, shareholder disputes and domestic and international arbitration. Conducts litigation at trial and appellate levels, including before the Supreme Court of Canada. He has represented Canada's leading public and private companies and government institutions. Recognized by Chambers Global, The Best Lawyers in Canada, Canadian Who's Who, Benchmark Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory, Lexpert ® Top 25 Corporate Litigators in Canada (2002) and The 2006 Lexpert ® Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada. Awarded Avocat Émérite (Distinguished Counsel) by the Barreau du Québec in 2009 and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his outstanding contribution to the community. Author and photographer: Portraits of Hope published by Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, June 2012. BComm (Hon.), University Scholar, BCL (Hon.), University Scholar and LLB, McGill University. Called to Québec Bar in 1979. Julie-Martine Loranger's practice focuses on commercial, civil and securities litigation, regulatory matters, class action, professional liability and directors' liability. She has been named among the top 10 of business litigation's best women lawyers in Québec, published in 2007 by Le Monde Juridique. She was recognized by The Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada in Securities Litigation and by The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory as a "Repeatedly Recommended" practitioner in Litigation – Securities. In 2011, she was named a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. She has acted before courts of all jurisdictions, including the Supreme Court of Canada and various regulators, arbitrators and mediators. Loranger regularly speaks on liability, ethics and compliance issues to the financial service industry. Loranger has authored numerous articles published in Finance et Investissement and has co-written the JurisClasseur Québec on Security ‒ Inscription 31.103.