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CORPORATE FINANCE & SECURITIES
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Transactional corporate securities practice involving Canadian and cross-border
public and private off erings, take-over bids, and mergers and acquisitions. Practice
also includes advising independent and special committees of public entities, or their
fi nancial advisors, in the context of change of control or related-party transactions.
Clients include bank-owned and independent investment banks, as well as Canadian
public issuers (large, mid-cap as well as emerging), activist shareholders, and domestic
and foreign acquirers of Canadian public entities. Industry experience includes mining,
REITs, technology and fi nancial institutions. Past member of the Ontario Securities
Commission's Securities Advisory Committee. Also serves as a trustee of FAM Real
Estate Investment Trust, a Canadian publicly traded REIT. Consistently Recommended
in Lexpert®.
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Senior partner in the fi rm's Corporate & Securities Practice Group. Focuses on
corporate fi nance transactions, fi nancial services regulation, capital markets regulation
and public company law. Advises Canadian and foreign investment banks, asset managers,
public corporations, investment funds and institutional investors on domestic and
cross-border transactions as well as signifi cant regulatory matters. Representative work
includes advising the Canadian Securities Transition Offi ce on proposed derivatives
regulations; several US FINRA fi rms on new Canadian rules regulating their Canadian
brokerage service off erings; a Canadian investment bank on the development of a new
Canadian equities exchange; the IIAC and a group of Canadian investment dealers on
the development of the ETF summary disclosure document regime; a global investment
bank on the launch of a Canadian alternative trading system; Kensington Capital on its
IPO of a global private-equity fund of funds. Past Chair of the practitioners' advisory
committee to the OSC.
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Co-head of Torys' M&A practice. Emphasis on M&A (public and private) and
corporate fi nance. Signifi cant experience advising acquirers, sellers, targets, special
committees and investment banks in a variety of complex transactions, including hostile
take-over bids, strategic review processes, proxy contests, private equity transactions
and cross-border transactions. Acted for BlackBerry in its 2013 strategic alternative
review process and C$1.25-billion private placement of convertible debt; Viterra in its
C$6.1-billion acquisition by Glencore; IPIC in its C$2.3-billion acquisition of Nova
Chemicals; and Husky and Onex in the C$2.1-billion sale to OMERS and Berkshire.
Former Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Recognized in
Chambers Global, ! e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, Woodward/White's ! e
Best Lawyers in Canada and as one of Lexpert®'s 2012 "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers
Under 40." Recipient of M&A Advisor's 40 under 40 award (only Canadian recipient in
2012). Ontario Bar, 1999. LLB, 1997, Osgoode Hall. BA, 1994, University of Toronto.
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Shlomi Feiner is a partner who practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions,
securities and corporate law at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Feiner has acted as
counsel to bidders and target companies in take-over bids and other public company
acquisitions, as well as purchasers and vendors in private company asset and share
purchase transactions. In addition, Feiner has acted as counsel in debt and equity
securities off erings and provided general corporate and commercial law advice to a range
of Canadian and international clients. Feiner was named one of Lexpert®'s "Rising Stars:
Leading Lawyers Under 40" in Canada in November 2009.
Georges
Dubé
Bennett
Jones LLP
Tel: (416) 777-7446
Toronto
J. Mark
DesLauriers
Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt LLP
Tel: (416) 862-6709
Fax: (416) 862-6666
Toronto
John E.
Emanoilidis
Torys LLP
Tel: (416) 865-8145
Fax: (416) 865-7380
Toronto
Shlomi
Feiner
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-2393
Fax: (416) 863-2653
Toronto
dubeg@bennettjones.com
mdeslauriers@osler.com
jemanoilidis@torys.com
shlomi.feiner@blakes.com
