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Raffin, Leo, McMillan LLP Vancouver - (604) 691-7450 - leo.raffin@mcmillan.ca
Leo Raffin is a partner in McMillan's Vancouver office, Co-chair of the national Capital Markets Group and
Co-chair of the Public M&A Group (BC). His primary practice areas are securities and corporate law, acting
for technology, industrial and natural resource issuers. His experience includes public and private offerings,
mergers, acquisitions and take-over bids, proxy contests, corporate reorganizations, business alliances, licens-
ing transactions and corporate governance matters.
Pletcher, Fred R., Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Vancouver - (604) 640-4245 - fpletcher@blg.com
Partner and Chair of BLG's Mining Group. Advises on all aspects of corporate finance, M&A, commercial
transactions, corporate governance and continuous disclosure, with a strong focus on the mining industry.
Considerable experience with Canadian and international mining joint ventures, project development, tenure
issues, metals streams and royalties. Clients include public and private companies, boards of directors, spe-
cial committees, underwriters, investment funds and real estate investment trusts. Recognized in Chambers
Global, e Best Lawyers in Canada and the International Who's Who of Mining Lawyers. Adjunct Professor,
University of BC, Faculty of Law (1999–2001). Frequent speaker and writer on securities and mining law
topics. Member of the Toronto Stock Exchange Advisory Committee and editorial board for Carswell's Se-
curities Law and Practice (3rd ed.). Past Trustee, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. A Director of the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. LLM, Columbia University. LLB, University of Toronto. AB, magna cum
laude, Harvard University. Called to BC Bar in 1993.
Read, Jeffrey A., Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Vancouver - (604) 640-4097 - jread@blg.com
Practices corporate and securities law, focusing on advising public companies and investment dealers. Practice
involves financings for public and private companies, mergers & acquisitions, private-equity funds and corpor-
ate governance. Has written on topics including private placements, venture capital, shareholders' meetings,
continuous disclosure and securities practice and has taught courses on those and other subjects for groups,
including the CLE Society of BC, Simon Fraser University, Insight and the Law Society's PLTC. Adjunct
Professor of Law, Securities Regulation, University of British Columbia. Editor of the annual Carswell publi-
cation British Columbia Securities Act and Rules, Annotated. Author, "Securities and Stock Exchanges," Can-
adian Encyclopedic Digest, 4th edition, Ontario and Western editions. Past chairman of the Securities Section
of the CBABC. Previously seconded to the BC Securities Commission in the corporate finance and policy
legislation areas. British Columbia Bar, 1986.
Scott, Trevor R., Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP Vancouver - (604) 661-1732 - tscott@farris.com
Partner Trevor Scott provides strategic and legal advice in diverse business areas. Extensive experience advising
senior public and private companies, national investment dealers and boards of directors on debt and equity
financings, M&A, restructurings, take-over bids (friendly and hostile), corporate governance, shareholder ac-
tivism and proxy contests. Chair of the Canadian Bar Association's National Business Law Section. Past Chair
of the securities law subsection of the Canadian Bar Association (BC) and past member of the Securities Law
Advisory Committee, a committee of leading lawyers that provides advice to the British Columbia Securities
Commission on legal and policy issues relating to public company regulation. Recognized in e Canadian
Legal Lexpert® Directory as a leading M&A, corporate finance, corporate commercial and corporate mid-mar-
ket lawyer; and by his peers in e Best Lawyers in Canada Directory as a leading M&A, corporate, securities
and mining lawyer. Admitted to the British Columbia Bar (1998).
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