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Andrews, Mark D., QC, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Vancouver - (604) 631-3115 - mandrews@fasken.com
Chair of the firm's Commercial Litigation Group in Vancouver. General litigation counsel experienced in
business disputes, including corporate, partnership and joint-venture disputes; investment; contract (par-
ticularly purchase and sale agreements); fraud, breach of trust and fiduciary duty cases; securities (civil and
regulatory disputes); real estate and municipal cases; class actions; pension disputes and tax cases. Experienced
with applications for emergency relief, such as Mareva freeze orders, injunctions and Anton Piller orders.
Also practices administrative/regulatory law, including investigations and regulatory hearings; public law and
white-collar criminal cases. Admitted to BC Bar in 1986. Appointed QC, 2004. Ranked AV by Martindale-
Hubbell. Recognized for corporate commercial litigation, dispute resolution and directors' & officers' liability
by Lexpert®, Chambers Global, Benchmark Canada, e Legal 500 and e Best Lawyers in Canada. Included
in e Lexpert®/ALM Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, 2009-2015. Fellow of the American Col-
lege of Trial Lawyers.
Skwarok, Mark L., McMillan LLP Vancouver - (604) 691-7435 - mark.skwarok@mcmillan.ca
Mark Skwarok is Co-chair, BC, Securities Litigation and has more than 30 years of experience as a commer-
cial litigator, with a focus on securities litigation. He is recognized as one of Canada's leading practitioners in
securities litigation by such authorities as e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and the peer-selected Best
Lawyers in Canada, where he is also listed in the category of Corporate and Commercial Litigation. Skwarok
is noted in particular for the comprehensive nature of his practice. He typically acts on behalf of persons who
are the subject of proceedings initiated by securities regulators, but he has also acted for regulators such as the
TSX Venture Exchange, the TSX, the Investment Dealers Association, the US Securities Exchange Commis-
sion and the British Columbia Securities Commission.
McEwan, J. Kenneth, Hunter Litigation Chambers Vancouver - (604) 647-3536
kmcewan@litigationchambers.com -
Ken McEwan practices corporate commercial, securities and competition liti-
gation at both trial and appellate levels. His class-action representations include 3M, Capital One and Cargill,
for whom he successfully acted in the Supreme Court of Canada. He also has a significant arbitration practice
and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. His peer review rankings include a Martindale-
Hubbell rating of AV and Benchmark's British Columbia Litigator of the Year for each of 2013-2016. He is
a Director of both the International Society of Barristers and e Advocates' Society, and a member of the
American College of Trial Lawyers. He has been appointed by the Law Society to the Committee on Rela-
tions with the Judiciary and was a longstanding member of the Attorney General's Rules Revision Committee
until April 2016. He is author of the third edition of Sopinka on the Trial of an Action and co-author of Com-
mercial Arbitration in Canada: A Guide to Domestic and International Arbitrations. Appointed QC in 2004.
