The Lexpert Guides to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate and Litigation Lawyers in Canada profiles leading business lawyers and features articles for attorneys and in-house counsel in the US about business law issues in Canada.
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8 | LEXPERT • June 2014 | www.lexpert.ca EDITORIAL fortuna favet fortibus JUNE 2014 Editor-in-Chief: Jean Cumming Project Editor: Gina Fusco Project Process Lead: Jill Grove Managing Editor: Tim Wilbur Art Director: Brianna Freitag Art Director: John Kieffer Cover Photography: Don Dixon Cover Location: Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto Director, Strategic Partnerships: David Bienstock Client Development: Grace So Account Manager: Joseph Galea Marketing & Circulation: Mohammad Ali Production Coordinator: Joanne Richardson (416) 609-5836 Administrative Assistant: Patricia Ramsey This LEXPERT® Guide is published two times a year by Carswell, a division of Thomson Reuters Canada Limited. One Corporate Plaza, 2075 Kennedy Road Toronto, ON M1T 3V4 Tel: (416) 609-8000 Fax: (416) 609-5840 Website: www.lexpert.ca All rights reserved. Contents may not be reprinted without written permission. LEXPERT® Magazine is printed in Canada. PUBLICATION MAIL REGISTRATION NO. 40065782. ISSN1488-6553 Copyright© Thomson Reuters Canada Limited. All rights reserved. G.S.T. Registration # 897176350RT0002. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR may be faxed to: (416) 609-5840 or e-mailed to: jean.cumming@thomsonreuters.com SUBSCRIPTIONS/ADDRESS CHANGES Contact: Keith Fulford at (416) 649-9585 or e-mail: keith.fulford@thomsonreuters.com Annual subscription costs C$169.50 To change your subscription address, please send your new address along with a copy of your mailing label(s) to the Subscription Dept., at the address indicated above. For all other circulation inquiries, please e-mail Keith Fulford. Editor-in-Chief Jean Cumming EARLY THIS YEAR, THE AMERICAN and Canadian governments announced that they had signed an intergovernmental agreement that expands the sharing of tax-related information (see "Canada-US Tax", p. 20). is is an example of further legal cooperation between the two countries, which evolves as do our business relationships. e pace of that cooperation has to keep up with the rate of technological change: Lexpert also looks at new Canadian Anti-spam Legislation, scheduled to take force this year (see "Anti-spam Law in Eff ect", p. 12). Your company or your clients, therefore, may have new challenges as you pursue opportunities in Canada. To help you determine excellent choices of legal talent to succeed in Canada, Lexpert off ers a third-party ranking. Our Lexpert-ranked lawyers are chosen by way of peer surveys, and these surveys have a response rate that exceeds 80 per cent. In the Corporate sector, this means lawyers who have transacted deals with one another, sitting across from or beside each other at the deal table. ey vote from experience. In the US as in Canada, lawyers are continually rising to the challenge to make the business case for you to retain their fi rms. Between Lexpert rankings, and Canadian business lawyers' receptivity to your questions and concerns in this and all regards, your chances of success in Canadian endeavors are highly ameliorated. And so we welcome you to this 2014 Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada, in which we present to you Lexpert-ranked lawyers, selected by peer Surveys in the following areas of legal practice: Asset-based Lending, Banking & Financial Institutions, Commodity Tax/Customs, Competition Law, Corporate Finance & Securities, Corporate Tax, Energy, Franchising Law, Insolvency & Financial Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mining, Project Finance and Technology Transactions. Any and all of these Lexpert-ranked lawyers would be pleased to discuss your business issues in Canada with you. CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION