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CLASS ACTION Mark A. Gelowitz Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-4743 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto mgelowitz@osler.com Deborah A. Glendinning Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-4714 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto dglendinning@osler.com Mark A. Gelowitz is a partner in the litigation department of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. He is Chair of the firm's National Corporate Governance and Securities Litigation Group and co-Chair of the firm's International Commercial Arbitration Group. Mark has a business-focused civil litigation, appellate litigation and international commercial arbitration practice. His cases have covered a wide variety of issues in corporate and commercial law including mergers & acquisitions litigation, directors' & officers' liability, oppression remedy, libel and slander, product liability, mining litigation and class actions procedure. He completed the BCL degree at Oxford University in 1989 between clerking for the Chief Justice of Saskatchewan and the late Justice Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada. Mark has had a number of legal publications including a book co-authored with the late Justice Sopinka entitled The Conduct of an Appeal, Third Edition (LexisNexis 2012). Mark maintains a blog on Canadian appellate law and practice at Conductofanappeal.com. Chair of the firm's National Litigation Department, member of the firm's Executive Committee and Co-chair of the international subcommittee on class actions of the ABA. Over the past 16 years, her practice has focused almost exclusively on the defence of class actions, and other large aggregate claims, particularly corporate, commercial and banking disputes, product liability and negligence claims. She has had several recent successes in having certification denied in multiple jurisdictions. Her experience includes acting as national coordinating counsel for a major consumer product company which requires management and coordination of litigation internationally. She has acted on cases which have produced groundbreaking decisions dealing with procedural and evidentiary aspects of certification, acting as coordinating counsel in cross-border cases and providing advice and assistance to corporations seeking to implement measures to avoid class-action litigation. Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1990. Peter Griffin Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Tel: (416) 865-2921 Fax: (416) 865-3558 Toronto pgriffin@litigate.com Patricia D.S. Jackson Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7323 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto tjackson@torys.com 58 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Founding partner. Peter Griffin is recognized by his peers as one of the top litigators in Canada. He has extensive experience in complex cross-border litigation, especially as it relates to class proceedings and insolvency and restructuring. He regularly advises the boards of national and multinational companies. He also represents clients in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution proceedings and acts as an arbitrator in commercial disputes. As a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he is constantly sought out as an expert speaker on advocacy, shareholder disputes, class actions, professional liability and insolvency and restructuring. 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 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.