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LEXPERT • June 2014 | www.lexpert.ca | 133 CORPORATE LAWYERS TO WATCH » » Partner in Torys' New York offi ce and a member of the Infrastructure and Energy group. Her practice focuses on major capital projects, including public-private partner- ship, alternative fi nancing and procurement and project fi nance transactions. She represents project developers, lenders, public-sector authorities, construction contractors and service providers in all aspects of the implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects. Tara Mackay is recognized as a leading lawyer in PPP and infrastructure in Chambers & Partners' Chambers Global: e World's Leading Lawyers for Business and for project fi nance in Best Lawyers in Canada and Legal Media Group/Euromoney's IFLR1000: e Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms. She has recently been involved in the Regina Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade, Indianapolis Consoli- dated Justice Facility, Waterloo Light Rail, Peel Memorial Hospital, Ottawa Light Rail, Fort St. James Green Energy, OPG New Nuclear and Windsor-Essex Parkway transac- tions. LLB, 2000, Osgoode Hall Law School (York University). Ontario Bar, 2002. » Partner. Practice focuses on corporate fi nance and mergers and acquisitions. Has advised clients in a wide range of public and private M&A and capital markets trans- actions (including public equity and debt off erings, mortgage-backed securities, TSX Venture CPC transactions and high-yield bond fi nancings), as well as corporate gover- nance matters. Indicative transactions include representing CML HealthCare in its C$1.22-billion acquisition by LifeLabs and the separate divestiture by CML of its diagnostic imaging business in over 30 separate transactions, advising Apax Partners in connection with its C$700-million acquisition and bond fi nancing of Trader Corpora- tion's automotive segment from Yellow Media, representing SkyPower in connection with its sale of 16 solar power projects to Canadian Solar and the ongoing development by SkyPower of international solar power projects, and advising the purchaser group in the proposed C$52-billion acquisition, credit and bond fi nancing of Bell Canada. Direc- tor of the Hong Kong-Canada Business Association since 2001. Fluent in Cantonese. » Adam Maerov is a partner in the fi rm›s Corporate Restructuring Group. Maerov ‹s practice includes all aspects of insolvency law including workouts, reorganizations, bankruptcies, receiverships, liquidations and security enforcement. Maerov has advised banks, fi nancial institutions, asset-based lenders, hedge funds, borrowers, directors and offi cers, customers, unsecured creditors and suppliers in domestic and cross-border restructuring proceedings. Maerov regularly advises court-appointed receivers, trustees in bankruptcy, monitors and purchasers of distressed assets. Maerov is a co-chair of a task force developing a model asset purchase agreement for the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association. Maerov was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2003 and in Alberta in 2013. Maerov is a frequent speaker and presenter on a variety of Canadian and cross-border insolvency proceedings. » Michael McLaren's practice focuses on corporate and international tax planning, regularly advising Canadian and foreign-based multi-national groups on a variety of matters, including: inbound and outbound investment and fi nancing; mergers and acquisitions; divestitures; restructurings; and natural resource taxation. McLaren acts for a number of Canadian and foreign-based multi-national companies that operate in the following industries: natural resources; real estate; aerospace and defense; paper and household products; pharmaceuticals; fi nancial services; e-commerce and indus- trial engineering. McLaren speaks and writes frequently on international and mining tax matters. In addition, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Tax Planning Journal (Federated Press) and is on the editorial board of the CCH Income Tax Act. McLaren is listed in Law Business Research's e International Who's Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers, e International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and its Canada Special Report Who's Who Legal: Canada. McLaren is also listed in the 2014 Expert Guide. Tara A. Mackay Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7528 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Victor Liu Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-5141 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Adam C. Maerov McMillan LLP Tel: (403) 215-2752 Fax: (403) 531-4720 Michael H. McLaren Thorsteins- sons LLP Tel: (604) 602-4274 Fax: (604) 688-4711 tmackay@torys.com vliu@goodmans.ca adam.maerov@mcmillan.ca mhmclaren@thor.ca