The Lexpert Guides to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate and Litigation Lawyers in Canada profiles leading business lawyers and features articles for attorneys and in-house counsel in the US about business law issues in Canada.
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EXPERT WITNESSES Michael Wagner Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP Tel: (604) 661-9388 Fax: (604) 661-9349 Vancouver mwagner@farris.com Mike Wagner is a partner in Farris's litigation and media law groups. Wagner acts for manufacturers, foreign exchange brokers, software companies, and public bodies. He has been counsel on several class actions. Wagner acts for employers in Canada and the US, to build multijurisdictional legal teams in cases of mass departure by key employees. In addition to enforcing post-employment restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties, Wagner acts to prevent the theft and misuse of confidential information, trade secrets and other intellectual property. Wagner has considerable experience with asset freeze (Mareva), civil search and seizure (Anton Piller) and sealing orders. Wagner acts for national and local media to successfully oppose publication ban applications in major criminal trials, including the "Surrey Six" gang-linked mass murder trial. Wagner recently published an article in The Advocate on internet defamation, privacy and cyberbullying. In 2012, Wagner was named one of Lexpert® 's "Leading Lawyers Under 40.". Called to the BC Bar in 2002. Member, Canadian Media Lawyers' Association. EXPERT WITNESSES Vimal S. Kotecha, MBA, CPA, CA, CBV Ernst & Young LLP Tel: (416) 932-6219 Fax: (416) 932-6200 vimal.kotecha@ca.ey.com Nancy Rogers, CPA, CA, IFA, CBV, CIP NRogers & Associates Inc. Tel: (416) 471-9155 nrogers@nrogersinc.com The following are Expert Witnesses who have elected to participate in this Guide. Vimal Kotecha is the leader of the Valuations/Disputes group in Ernst & Young's Private Mid-Market practice. He focuses exclusively on business valuations and quantification of damages in domestic litigation, international and domestic arbitration matters. Kotecha has acted as both party-appointed expert and as a sole expert jointly retained by disputing parties seeking a resolution on valuation issues. His international arbitration experience has covered assignments across Canada, the US, Eastern Europe, South America, Africa, Iceland and the Middle East in a number of arbitral forums, including ICC, AAA, UNCITRAL, Stockholm and NAFTA. He is a past board member of the CICBV and its various committees. He holds his CA and CBV designations and was awarded the silver medal in 2000 for achieving the second-highest grade on the CBV exam in Canada. Principal of NRogers & Associates Inc. in Toronto, Canada, Nancy Rogers is a Chartered Accountant specializing in damage quantification, business valuations and forensic accounting. Rogers is a former director/principal of two major international consulting firms. Since 1992, Rogers has focused exclusively on loss quantification, business valuations and investigations in the dispute context, working throughout North America and the Caribbean. Rogers' practice spans numerous industries including construction, mining, real estate development, pharmaceutical, financial institutions, technology, and manufacturing. As a qualified chartered insurance professional (CIP), Rogers has extensive experience in fidelity, business interruption and director negligence investigations and claims. Her business valuations practice covers a wide range of shareholder disputes, and purchase and sale agreement disputes. Rogers has been accepted as an expert in the Ontario courts in the areas of forensic accounting, business valuations and construction delay and has testified at numerous arbitrations and mediations. LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 143