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Beavis, Merie-Anne E., Gowling WLG Toronto - (416) 814-5631 - merie-anne.beavis@gowlingwlg.com
Merie-Anne Beavis is a partner in Gowling WLG's Toronto office, practicing in the Energy, Infrastructure
and Mining Groups. Beavis's experience includes acting for public- and private-sector participants in public-
private partnerships as well as lenders in a variety of projects. Her project finance experience includes acting for
sponsors, lenders and governments in mine financings and in the electricity industry. Beavis has been ranked
repeatedly in various publications including Who's Who Legal: Canada; e Best Lawyers in Canada and e
Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory. In addition, she was listed in the September 2015 Lexpert® Special Insert in
e Globe and Mail's Report on Business: Canada's Leading Infrastructure Lawyers.
Babe, Jennifer E., Miller Thomson LLP Toronto - (416) 595-8555 - jbabe@millerthomson.com
Practice emphasizes commercial law, focusing on secured transactions, the securing of sales and leases of sig-
nificant products, both wholesale and retail, and purchases of businesses, assets and shares. Special focus on
issues for retail finance, including consumer protection, privacy and Canada's anti-spam legislation. Also acts
for borrowers and lenders in marginal situations and with respect to exercising their rights in insolvencies or
customer default. Special expertise in laws of personal property federally and provincially; has written and lec-
tured frequently on this subject. Author of Sale of a Business, 10th edition, and co-author of Creditors' Remedies
in Ontario, 3rd edition, and other publications. Fellow of American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.
Member of ABA, CBA, OBA and editor of the OBA's newsletter on secured transaction developments, Im-
perfections; past chair of National Business Sections of CBA and OBA, and the commercial law strategy for the
Uniform Law Conference of Canada. LLM, London School of Economics & Political Science, 1981.
Delean, Adam E., Torys LLP Toronto - (416) 865-8232 - adelean@torys.com
Co-head of Torys' Banking and Debt Finance Practice. Practice focuses on corporate banking, leveraged fi-
nance and structured finance. Represents both lenders and borrowers in transactions including bank credit
facilities, Canadian and US bond financings, structured finance transactions, mezzanine financings and de-
rivatives, with particular expertise in cross-border and international financings. Also regularly advises lend-
ers and borrowers on compliance matters related to financing arrangements. Ontario Bar, 1990. LLB (Silver
Medalist), 1988, University of Toronto.
Feldman, Michael K., Torys LLP Toronto - (416) 865-7513 - mfeldman@torys.com
Practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, with an emphasis on structured asset-backed financing,
securitization, private M&A, capital markets, secured lending, aircra financing and derivatives. Has repre-
sented issuers and underwriters on various public and private securitizations and sellers and conduit sponsors
on asset-backed commercial paper transactions. Also has particular experience in the broad financial services
industry, involving numerous asset classes, including residential and commercial mortgages, auto loans and
leases, personal lines of credit, credit cards and trade receivables. Ontario Bar, 1984. New York Bar, 2001.
LLM, 1992, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. LLB, 1982, University of Toronto.
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