Canada's 2014 Leading Corporate Lawyers SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM | 5
Boislard, Michel
Fasken Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
(514) 397-7634
mboislard@fasken.com
Mr. Boislard's practice
focuses on securities,
M&A and corporate
fi nance. He acts for public
and private companies in
national and cross-border
matters and has experience
in various sectors,
including high-tech and
biotechnology industries.
Booth, QC,
Robert (Bob) T.
Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3252
boothb@bennettjones.com
Mr. Booth has a broad
commercial practice in
energy and resources. He
represents clients in the oil
and gas, pipeline, LNG,
uranium and electricity
sectors. He advises on
purchases, sales, new
businesses, joint ventures
and partnerships.
Bourassa, Michael J.
Fasken Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
(416) 865-5455
mbourassa@fasken.com
Mr. Bourassa's practice
focuses on international
mining transactions where
he advises on commercial,
structural, fi nancing, title
and technical matters.
He helped establish
Fasken Martineau's CSR
group, which launched
in Februar y 2012.
Bomhof, Scott A.
Tor ys LLP
(416) 865-7370
sbomhof@torys.com
Mr. Bomhof 's
practice focuses on
restructurings, banking
law and insolvency, with
a focus on cross-border
proceedings and distressed
M&A transactions.
Boucher, Patrick
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
(514) 397-4237
pboucher@mccarthy.ca
Mr. Boucher practises
securities and corporate
law, focusing on M&A,
take-over bids and
fi nancings. He acts for
issuers and under writers
in public off erings and
private placements,
and also counsels
independent committees
on various matters.
Bradley, Noralee M.
Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt LLP
(403) 260-7002
nbradley@osler.com
Ms. Bradley focuses on
M&A, fi nancings and
corporate governance,
primarily for oil and gas,
and service-sector clients.
Her experience embraces
take-over bids and complex
plans of arrangement
involving related parties
and foreign entities.
SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM has put
down roots in Canada. In fact, Eric
Rosenfeld of New York's Crescendo Part-
ners has referred to this country as an ac-
tivist investor's paradise.
From him, that's a compliment.
A variety of things make us a share-
holder-friendly jurisdiction, says Rosen-
feld, the fund's chairman and CEO. It
ranges from the willingness of provincial
regulators to cease trade poison pills to
the ease with which activist investors can
force a board vote.
For example, anyone with 5 per cent
of the company's shares can requisi-
tion a shareholder meeting, he recently
said, which means "within three or four
months the whole board's going to be
up for election. at gives the share-
holders, and activists in particular, tre-
mendous power."
And Americans have not been shy
about using it.
Rosenfeld says Canadians are "very
nice" people, maybe too nice in his view.
He says much of the activism here has
been driven by "mean Americans."
