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CORPORATE COMMERCIAL Sheila R. Block Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7319 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto sblock@torys.com Christopher D. Bredt Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Tel: (416) 367-6165 Fax: (416) 361-7063 Toronto cbredt@blg.com David R. Byers Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5697 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto dbyers@stikeman.com John E. Callaghan Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Tel: (416) 369-6693 Fax: (416) 862-7661 Toronto john.callaghan@gowlings.com 74 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Chair of Torys' Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. Trial and appellate counsel litigation practice, acting as counsel on a wide range of leading cases before all levels of court in Canada and in international arbitrations. Chair, Touching Tiny Lives Foundation; President, Fox Education Fund; Trustee, Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy, Geneva; President's Council, University of Ottawa; and Advisory Board, Ethics and the Law, University of Toronto. Ranked by Lexpert® as one of Canada's top 25 corporate litigators. Taught advocacy in North America and Europe, New Zealand, El Salvador, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Brazil and India. Awards include: Law Society Medal; Advocates' Society Medal; Laidlaw Medal for Advocacy; Toronto Lawyers' Association Award of Distinction; OBA Award for Excellence; Meritas Tabaret Award, University of Ottawa; Fellow, ACTL, ISOB; Member, Common Law Honour Society, University of Ottawa; LLB (Gold Medalist), 1972, University of Ottawa. Ontario Bar, 1974. Senior litigation partner and national leader of BLG's Public Law Group. Practice involves a broad range of civil litigation, including commercial disputes, directors' and officers' duties and liability, shareholder, oppression and other corporate disputes, securities, class actions, constitutional and administrative law issues. Has appeared as counsel before all levels of the courts in Ontario, and before the Federal Court of Appeal, British Columbia Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Canada, and numerous administrative tribunals, including the Ontario Securities Commission. Served as law clerk to the Honorable Justice W.R. McIntyre, Supreme Court of Canada, 1979–1980; Elected Bencher, The Law Society of Upper Canada, since 2008. Board of Trustees, Law Commission of Ontario. Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada (Administrative and Public Law, Corporate and Commercial Litigation). Recognized in the 2013 edition of The Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Commercial Litigation). Partner and head of the firm's Litigation Group in Toronto and co-chair of the practice nationally. Highly experienced in complex commercial litigation, including product liability, securities, insolvency and insurance, as well as in domestic and international arbitration. Extensive advocacy experience appearing before all levels of trial and appellate court in Ontario. Acts for companies and their management in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, financial services and tobacco. Has acted for both lenders and debtors in several court supervised restructurings. He is recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada; the International Who's Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers and Commercial Litigators; Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business; The Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Lexpert ® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Crossborder Litigation Lawyers in Canada; The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory; and The Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers. John Callaghan has a broad practice, including civil litigation, commercial litigation and regulatory offence work. He specializes in complex cases, including class actions. He appears before all levels of courts and arbitration tribunals. Callaghan was elected by the profession as a Bencher of The Law Society of Upper Canada, which governs the legal profession in Ontario. Callaghan is a member of the Civil Rules Committee, having been appointed by the Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The committee is responsible for drafting and revising the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Province of Ontario. Callaghan is co-author of Class Action Law and Practice (Butterworths), the leading class-action text in Canada. Callaghan has been recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in Canada for class action litigation, by Benchmark Canada and The Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada for Corporate Commercial Litigation.