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Mark Bennett is a partner practicing corporate and securities law (primarily in the
natural resources sector) with an emphasis on M&A and corporate fi nance. He acts for
Canadian and international mining companies involved in negotiated business combi-
nations, contested take-over bids, domestic and cross-border public-equity and debt
off erings, private placements and stock exchange listings. Bennett advises exploration,
development and producing natural resource companies on property acquisitions, joint
ventures and option agreements. He has extensive experience representing investment
dealers retained as underwriters or fi nancial advisors and has acted on transactions
involving resource properties in the Americas, Africa, Europe and Australia. Bennett
advises boards of directors and special committees on related-party transactions, corpo-
rate governance and securities law compliance, including mineral project disclosure. He is
also recognized as a leading lawyer by ! e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, Chambers
Global and Best Lawyers. Bennett was called to the Ontario Bar in 1995.
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Alan Bell is a senior partner in the fi rm's corporate department. He practices primar-
ily in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and advising boards
of directors on corporate governance matters, and represents public and private compa-
nies, boards of directors and independent committees of directors of public companies.
Bell has routinely acted in respect of signifi cant domestic and multinational mergers and
acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and advises corporations on the structur-
ing and implementation of corporate governance practices. Recognized in Law Business
Research's International Who's Who of Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers, International
Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers and International Who's Who of Business
Lawyers; ! e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada,
Chambers Global: ! e World's Leading Lawyers for Business, Euromoney's IFLR1000:
! e Guide to the World's Leading Financial Lawyers, Global Counsel's Mergers & Acqui-
sitions Handbook and Woodward/White's ! e Best Lawyers in Canada.
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David Chaikof is an M&A and capital markets partner advising on complex matters,
including strategic review processes, hostile and friendly take-over bids, proxy battles,
private-equity investments and cross-border fi nancings. Led the strategic review process
in 2014 for BlackBerry, including the related C$1.25-billion fi nancing. Led Cara's IPO
(2015) and Fairfax Financial M&A mandates, including strategic investments into
Resolute, Mega Brands, H&R REIT, Sporting Life, and e Keg as well as the Resolute
hostile bid for Fibrek, the merger of Leon's and e Brick, the merger of Cara and Prime,
the merger of Mattel Toys and Mega Brands and the going-private transactions for Brit
(2015), Arbor, Northbridge, Odyssey, Prime, and $9B equity and debt fi nancings. He led
the Goldman Sachs sale of Alliance Films to eOne and the fi rst bond off ering by a First
Nation enterprise in Canada (2014). He is the head of the Technology practice. Recom-
mended in ! e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada,
IFLR and ! e Best Lawyers in Canada. LLB, 1985, University of Western Ontario.
Ontario Bar, 1987.
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Partner. Practices corporate and securities law with a focus on corporate fi nance, M&A,
private equity and corporate governance and regulatory compliance matters. Lawrence
Chernin has more than 25 years' experience in high-profi le Canadian and international
M&A, public-company and private-equity transactions. He has acted for both issuers and
underwriters on public off erings, including debt fi nancings and cross-border off erings.
He has also acted as counsel in many signifi cant M&A transactions, plans of arrange-
ment and take-over bids, and provides advice to special committees of public companies.
Clients include pensions and private-equity funds and he has extensive experience acting
on investments made by such funds in private and public companies. Chernin taught
a course on private-equity law at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2011‒2012. He is recog-
nized as a leading lawyer in his areas of practice by ! e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory
and ! e Best Lawyers in Canada. Member of LSUC and CBA. BCL (civil law) and LLB
(common law) from McGill University, Montréal. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1978.
Mark T.
Bennett
Cassels Brock &
Blackwell LLP
Tel: (416) 869-5407
Fax: (416) 350-6933
Toronto
Alan Bell
Bennett
Jones LLP
Tel: (416) 777-5770
Fax: (416) 863-1716
Toronto
David A.
Chaikof
Torys LLP
Tel: (416) 865-8126
Fax: (416) 865-7380
Toronto
Lawrence
S. Chernin
Goodmans LLP
Tel: (416) 597-5903
Fax: (416) 979-1234
Toronto
mbennett@casselsbrock.com
bella@bennettjones.com
dchaikof@torys.com
lchernin@goodmans.ca
