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Michael Matheson is a partner who practices in the areas of banking, corporate fi nance
and fi nancial services law at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Advises domestic and inter-
national clients on syndicated lending transactions, take-over bid fi nancings, merger and
acquisition fi nancings and debtor-in-possession facilities. Included in ! e 2014 Lexpert®/
American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, IFLR1000: ! e Guide
to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms – 2014 Edition, Law Business Research's
International Who's Who of Banking Lawyers 2014, ! e Legal 500 Canada 2014, ! e
Best Lawyers in Canada 2014, Chambers Global 2013: ! e World's Leading Lawyers
for Business, ! e Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Banking, Financial
and Transactional Lawyers 2013. Named Best Lawyers' Toronto Banking and Finance
"Lawyer of the Year" for 2012.
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Jon Levin is repeatedly identifi ed as one of Canada's top 30 dealmakers and is the recip-
ient of extensive professional recognition, including being named one of Canada's most
creative lawyers. His practice includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate fi nance, securi-
ties regulation and business law. Recent signifi cant matters include representing CDS
Clearing and Depository Services on a US$400-million fi nancing; TMX Group on its
commercial paper program and C$1-billion term debenture issue; previously the banking
syndicate on the C$3.8-billion take-over of TMX Group; DundeeWealth on its sale to
Bank of Nova Scotia at a C$3.2-billion enterprise value; and Canada's largest distressed
debt investment fund group on the creation of numerous investment funds and other
transactions. A regular panelist and lecturer for continuing legal education programs
of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Federated
Press, Levin has been quoted in ! e Globe and Mail, ! e National Post, Business News
Network and Law Times. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1975.
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Peter Murphy's practice is primarily banking and fi nancial services law. He is repeat-
edly recognized as one of Canada's leading banking/fi nancial services lawyers in various
national and international directories. As a partner in the Financial Services Group at
Dentons' Toronto offi ce, he acts for Canadian domestic fi nancial institutions and foreign
banks. Murphy's practice includes: banking/corporate fi nancing, including syndicated
fi nancings, cross-border multi-currency transactions, project fi nancings, aircra fi nanc-
ing and leasing, and LBO fi nancings; Bank Act regulatory advice to both domestic and
foreign fi nancial institutions (including foreign bank entry, subsidiary incorporation
and bank amalgamation); trade fi nance/documentary credit transactions (domestic
Canadian and international); structured fi nancings, including asset-backed securitiza-
tions, receivables purchases, and synthetic leases; and loan workouts, security enforcement
and insolvency/debt restructuring for fi nancial institution clients in court restructurings
and bankruptcies of corporate debtors.
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Partner whose practice focuses on corporate fi nance, structured fi nance, mergers and
acquisitions and corporate reorganization transactions. Has served as counsel in major
complex corporate reorganizations, plans of arrangement and going-private transactions,
reorganization of companies in proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement
Act, private and public negotiated merger transactions, transactions involving the acquisi-
tion of both public and private companies and public-private partnership transactions.
Recognized in Chambers Global: ! e World's Leading Lawyers for Business; IFLR1000;
! e Legal 500: Canada; Expert Guides' Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business
Law in the area of Banking and Finance; and Who's Who Legal: Banking and Project
Finance and Who's Who Legal Canada: Capital Markets. Named Toronto Derivatives
Law Lawyer of the Year 2014 in ! e Best Lawyers in Canada. Honored with the Lexpert®
2009 Zenith Award as one of Canada's Leading Women Lawyers. Achieved Martindale-
Hubbell's highest ranking, AV Preeminent. Ontario, 1985; Alberta, 1981.
Michael D.
Matheson
Blake, Cassels
& Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-2164
Toronto
Jon Levin
Fasken
Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Tel: (416) 865-4401
Fax: (416) 364-7813
Toronto
Peter E.
Murphy
Dentons
Canada LLP
Tel: (416) 863-4503
Fax: (416) 863-4592
Toronto
Carol D.
Pennycook
Davies Ward
Phillips &
Vineberg LLP
Tel: (416) 863-5546
Fax: (416) 863-0871
Toronto
michael.matheson@blakes.com
jlevin@fasken.com
peter.murphy@dentons.com
cpennycook@dwpv.com
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