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Tim Andison is a partner who practices in the areas of corporate fi nance and securi-
ties law at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Andison's practice focuses on a wide variety
of M&A, capital markets and other fi nancing transactions, with a particular emphasis
on high-yield and other debt securities off erings and liability management transactions,
as well as novel equity and equity-linked off erings. Andison has also represented numer-
ous companies in connection with complex reorganizations and restructurings. His
clients include underwriters, issuers, fi nancial sponsors, lenders and borrowers based in
Canada, the United States, Central and South America and Europe.
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George Antonopoulos's expertise is in the area of energy law acting for energy compa-
nies on a broad range of commercial transactions. His practice focuses primarily on the
planning, dra ing, negotiation and completion of complex energy transactions and
project work in both the upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors, including advising
clients with respect to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, joint-venture arrange-
ments, commodity transportation, terminalling and storage arrangements, corporate
re-organizations, and energy project development. Antonopoulos has developed a
specialized expertise with respect to joint venture/partnership relationships in large-
scale energy projects, specifi cally in the unconventional resource areas of oil sands and
shale gas development. He also frequently advises on both the transporter and shipper
side of oil and gas pipeline transportation projects, including with respect to the dra ing
and negotiation of long-term transportation arrangements.
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Aaron Atkinson's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance
and corporate fi nance. Atkinson has extensive experience in both domestic and inter-
national cross-border matters, advising buyers in developing and executing acquisition
strategies in both public and private-sale transactions and other strategic mandates as
well as issuers, boards and board committees, including in contested take-over transac-
tions, proxy contests, internal investigations and day-to-day governance issues. Atkinson
also advises issuers, underwriters and investors in capital-raising activities both in public
capital markets and in the exempt market. Outside of his practice, Atkinson serves as a
sessional instructor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, where he has organized
and taught a course in Corporate Finance and M&A since 2007. He was called to the
Ontario Bar in 2001.
Tim Andison
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-2654
Fax: (416) 863-2653
George
Antonopoulos
Dentons
Canada LLP
Tel: (403) 268-7136
Fax: (403) 268-3100
Aaron
Atkinson
Fasken
Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Tel: (416) 865-5492
Fax: (416) 364-7813
tim.andison@blakes.com
george.antonopoulos@dentons.com
aatkinson@fasken.com
