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CORPORATE COMMERCIAL Bryan Finlay, QC WeirFoulds LLP Tel: (416) 947-5011 Fax: (416) 365-1876 Toronto bfinlay@weirfoulds.com John L. Finnigan Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP Tel: (416) 304-0558 Fax: (416) 304-1313 Toronto jfinnigan@tgf.ca "Mr Finlay, with his usual consummate skill..." (Ontario Court of Appeal). Bryan Finlay, QC, is a senior trial and appellate counsel. Finlay is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and an honorary overseas member of the Commercial Bar Association (England and Wales). He clerked for Justice Spence, Supreme Court of Canada. Finlay is identified in Chambers Global and The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory in four categories: corporate commercial litigation, directors' and officers' liability, securities litigation and public law litigation; The 2006 Lexpert ® Guide to the Leading 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada; the Lexpert ® Guide to the Leading 100 Canada/US Cross-Border Litigators in Canada; Lexpert ®ALM Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers; the Best Lawyers in Canada (in six categories) and recognized in the prestigious category of "Bet-the-Company" litigators in The International Who's Who of Commercial Litigators, Law Business Research and PLC's Global Counsel 3000. Finlay was awarded the prestigious Ontario Bar Association Award for Excellence in Civil Litigation in 2012. John Finnigan, a founding partner of TGF, has been lauded as an "excellent commercial litigator" in Chambers Global. He has a broad practice in complex commercial litigation with significant experience in insolvency and restructuring litigation. Finnigan is recommended in dispute resolution (Canada) by Chambers Global and is listed as Consistently Recommended in Corporate Commercial Litigation by Lexpert®. Significant mandates include representing OMERS on the Mississauga Judicial Inquiry and representing TransCanada on the high profile cancellation of the Oakville gas plant by the Ontario government. John acted as one of the lead counsel for the bondholders in the BCE case, described by many commentators as the most important commercial law case before the Supreme Court of Canada in the last 35 years. Finnigan is a member of The Advocates' Society, INSOL International, and the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations. He is active as a director of Worldwide Orphans Foundation Canada, a charity devoted to improving the lives of orphans in developing nations. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1984. Patrick D. Flaherty Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-8113 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto pflaherty@torys.com Sandra A. Forbes Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5574 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto sforbes@dwpv.com Partner in Torys' Litigation Practice. Focuses on corporate/commercial, product liability, class-action defense, intellectual property, information technology, privacy and media law. Has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and in the Federal Court of Canada, and he has extensive trial experience, both in court and as counsel in domestic and international arbitrations in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Has also acted as an arbitrator, including regularly as a panelist in domain name disputes under the auspices of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority Dispute Resolution Rules. Ontario Bar, 1993. LLB, 1991, Queen's University. JD, 1988, University of Toronto. Writes and speaks frequently on a wide range of legal issues and teaches advocacy at several law schools and in the Osgoode Hall Law School LLM Program on Protection of Intangible Business Interests and Defamation. Litigation partner. Broad commercial litigation practice, including class-actions defense, securities and competition litigation. Appeared before all levels of court in various Canadian provinces, the Federal Court and Supreme Court of Canada and various tribunals including Competition Tribunal, Ontario Securities Commission and Patented Medicines Prices Review Board. Defense counsel in various class actions (including Vitamins, Air Cargo, LCD Panels, Chocolate, Optical Disk Drives); counsel in various competition proceedings (including United Grain Growers' acquisition of Agricore Cooperative, the criminal prosecution relating to the chocolate confectionary industry, and Commissioner's application against Toronto Real Estate Board). Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Past President, The Advocates' Society. Member, Editorial Board, Ontario Reports. Adjunct Faculty, University of Toronto Law School in Advanced Advocacy. LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School. Law clerk to Justice Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada. Admitted to Ontario Bar (1992). LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 77