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CORPORATE FINANCE & SECURITIES
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Partner in the corporate/commercial, capital markets and mergers & acquisitions
practices. Practice focuses on M&A, securities and corporate transactions. Has
signifi cant experience in acting for bidders, target companies, shareholders, special
committees and fi nancial advisors in connection with negotiated and hostile M&A
transactions. Former member of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario
Securities Commission. Has taught securities law at the University of Western Ontario.
Recognized in Chambers Global: ! e World's Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of
corporate/M&A and in ! e Best Lawyers in Canada as a leading practitioner in the area
of mergers & acquisitions law. Named one of the 2008 Lexpert® "Rising Stars: Leading
Lawyers Under 40" and as a "Canadian Corporate Lawyer to Watch" in the 2010
edition of this publication. LLB, University of Toronto (1995). Called to the Ontario
Bar in 1997 and admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2000.
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Chris Hewat is a partner who practices in the areas of securities and business law
at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Hewat's practice has particular focus on mergers
& acquisitions, corporate fi nance and private-equity transactions. M&A experience
includes advising the Special Committee of Patheon on its sale to a joint venture
established by Patheon's signifi cant shareholder JLL Partners and Royal DSM; e
Brick on its sale to Leon's; TransGlobe Apartment REIT on its acquisition by PD
Kanco and Starlight Investments; and Cliff s Natural Resources in its acquisition of
Consolidated ompson. Extensive experience in public off erings, including IPOs
and cross-border off erings. Recognized in ! e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the
Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global, IFLR1000, ! e Canadian Legal
Lexpert® Directory and ! e Best Lawyers in Canada. LLB, MBA, University of Western
Ontario, 1985. Admitted to Ontario Bar in 1987.
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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Chair. Recognized by Chambers Global: ! e
World's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008–2014) as a Band 1 individual ("one of the
best M&A lawyers in the country" and "sets the gold standard for M&A in Canada ...
he is inspiring"); Best Lawyers' 2014 Toronto Corporate Lawyer of the Year. In 2013,
acted as counsel to Shoppers Drug Mart in connection with its proposed C$12.4-
billion acquisition by Loblaw Companies Limited; and Valeant Pharmaceuticals in
connection with its C$8.7-billion acquisition of Bausch & Lomb and in recent years,
as counsel to London Stock Exchange Group PLC in its proposed merger of equals
with the TMX Group, Kinross in its combination with Red Back; the Board of Addax
Petroleum in its sale to Sinopec International; IPSCO in its sale to SSAB; CNPC in
its acquisition of PetroKazakhstan; Ventas in its acquisition of Sunrise Senior Living
REIT; and previously in many signifi cant and innovative transactions, including
Coors-Molson, Placer Dome-Barrick, Seagram-Vivendi, Imasco-BAT and the AT&T
Canada restructuring.
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Pamela Hughes is a securities law partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in
Toronto. Her practice focuses on international corporate fi nance, capital market
regulation, structured products, derivatives transactions and mergers & acquisitions.
She was Director of the capital markets/international markets branch of the Ontario
Securities Commission (OSC) and the primary negotiator of the multi-jurisdictional
disclosure system between Canada and the US on behalf of the OSC. She is co-author
of the Canada chapter in Liability of Asset Managers published by Oxford University
Press in 2012. In 2003, 2004 and 2006, she prepared the Canada chapter in a treatise
on "Corporate Governance and Shareholder Rights" published by the World Bank,
International Institute for Corporate Governance at Yale University and Harvard
University. She was Vice Chair – North America Corporate and Securities Law Practice
Group of Lex Mundi. Admitted to Ontario Bar in 1980.
Peter S.
Hong
Davies Ward
Phillips &
Vineberg LLP
Tel: (416) 863-5557
Fax: (416) 863-0871
Toronto
Christopher
A. Hewat
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-2761
Fax: (416) 863-2653
Toronto
Clay Horner
Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt LLP
Tel: (416) 862-6590
Fax: (416) 862-6666
Toronto
Pamela S.
Hughes
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-2226
Fax: (416) 863-2653
Toronto
phong@dwpv.com
chris.hewat@blakes.com
chorner@osler.com
pamela.hughes@blakes.com
