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CLASS ACTION Silvana Conte Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (514) 904-8170 Fax: (514) 904-8101 Montréal sconte@osler.com Éric Dunberry Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Tel: (514) 847-4492 Fax: (514) 286-5474 Montréal eric.dunberry@nortonrosefulbright.com Jean Fontaine Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (514) 397-3337 Fax: (514) 397-3487 Montréal jfontaine@stikeman.com Yves Martineau Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (514) 397-3380 Fax: (514) 397-3580 Montréal ymartineau@stikeman.com 66 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Silvana Conte is a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in the Montreal Litigation Group. Conte acts as counsel on a wide variety of corporate and commercial litigation matters, including class actions, competition/antitrust, product liability, consumer protection and banking. She has been consistently recommended by Lexpert® and recognized by Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2013: Dispute Resolution (Class Action); Dispute Resolution (Québec); The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014: Class Action Litigation and Benchmark Canada 2013: Local Litigation Star ‒ Québec; Litigation Star ‒ Canada (class actions). Conte has appeared before all levels of courts in the province of Québec, including the Federal Court of Canada and was admitted to the Québec Bar in 1990. Éric Dunberry has acquired vast expertise in contentious and commercial matters, particularly in national and multijurisdictional cases involving energy, product liability, technology and pension-related matters. He regularly represents electricity, oil and natural gas producers and distributors as well as pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers in the context of commercial disputes, class actions, infrastructure projects and alternative dispute resolution methods. He acts for a wide array of corporate clients before trial and appeal courts, regulatory boards and administrative tribunals, including regulated entities in matters relating to rate-setting, permitting and approvals, market surveillance and complaints. He is regularly retained by regulated entities to advise on laws and regulations governing the energy and pharmaceutical sectors. Dunberry is also a professional engineer and is often asked to review bids and tender documents, negotiate and draft commercial contracts and advise on risk management of infrastructure and energy projects. Partner and head of the Montréal Litigation and Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Groups. Member of the Montréal office's Management Committee, he is actively involved in the management and the strategic orientations of the Montréal office. Included in the following publications: The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014; IFLR1000's The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms 2013; The 2013 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, as a leading practitioner in insolvency & financial restructuring and litigation corporate commercial; Who's Who Legal 100 2012 and Who's Who Legal: Canada 2012; The 2012 PLC Which Lawyer? and PLC's Restructuring and Insolvency Multi-Jurisdictional Guide 2012/2013. He is recognized as a leading lawyer in Lexpert®'s Special Edition on Insolvency and Restructuring, November 2012 and as a "most highly regarded individual" by The Who's Who Legal Most Highly Regarded Firms: Insolvency & Restructuring 2011. Member of the Québec Bar, the Canadian Bar Association, the Insolvency Institute of Canada and the American Bar Association (litigation and insolvency). Partner and member of the Litigation Group. He deals with every aspect of litigation, such as commercial law, banking law, bankruptcy, product liability, professional liability, leasing and real estate law. He has pleaded before all civil courts of Québec and before the Supreme Court of Canada. He has developed a specific expertise in class actions, primarily defending manufacturers, banking institutions and publicly-traded companies. Recognized by The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014 in class action litigation and securities law; Benchmark Litigation's Definitive Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys, 2013 edition; 2013 Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers for Business in the areas of class action and dispute resolution; and The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory 2013, in the class actions litigation sector and in the litigation corporate commercial sector. Member of the Québec Bar and the Canadian Bar Association. Also member of the Class Actions Advisory Committee of the Québec Bar since its foundation in 2006. Québec Bar (1992).