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Reyes, Tony Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(416) 216-4825 tony.reyes@nortonrosefulbright.com
Senior partner in the restructuring and insolvency team, Mr. Reyes's
practice includes advising debtors, creditors and insolvency/restructuring
professionals with respect to restructurings and disputes amongst
stakeholders. Has practised over 25 years in Ontario and has been involved
in most of Canada's major restructurings and insolvencies, affecting
a wide variety of industries.
Raymond, Paul Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(514) 847-4479 paul.raymond@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Raymond has a wide-ranging domestic and international experience,
principally in the United States, Europe and emerging markets. He is
experienced in corporate and securities law, financings and business
acquisitions and sales. He has acted in various transactions for the purchase
or sale of businesses, as well as in mergers and reorganizations.
Rajpal, Deepak (Dee) Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5576 drajpal@stikeman.com
Mr. Rajpal is a partner in Toronto. His practice focuses on M&A, corporate
finance, corporate governance, restructuring and compliance matters, with
an emphasis on cross-border and international transactions. He advises
dealers, institutional shareholders, investment funds, private-equity
investments and boards of directors. He is also the leader of the firm's
India initiative.
Raizenne, Robert Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(514) 904-5626 rraizenne@osler.com
Mr. Raizenne's tax practice includes cross-border and domestic M&A,
corporate reorganizations, restructurings, corporate finance, trusts, dispute
resolution and tax litigation. He teaches tax at McGill and University
of Toronto Law Faculties.
Raffin, Leo McMillan LLP
(604) 691-7450 leo.raffin@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Raffin practises securities and corporate law, acting for technology,
industrial and natural resource issuers. His experience includes public/
private offerings, M&A, take-overs, proxy contests, corporate reorganizations
and governance.
Pukier, Brian M. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5567 bpukier@stikeman.com
Mr. Pukier is a partner in the Corporate Group in Toronto. He is a member of
the Management Committee and former Head of the M&A Group. His practice
focuses primarily on cross-border M&A, private equity, corporate finance
transactions, complex corporate reorganizations and public policy. He has
counselled senior management and boards of directors of leading public
and private corporations.
LEXPERT RANKED LAWYERS
On November 21, 2016, Eldorado Gold Corpora-
tion ("Eldorado") completed the sale of its respec-
tive interest in the White Mountain and Tanjian-
shan mines and the Eastern Dragon development
project in China to an affiliate of Yintai Resources
Co. Ltd. ("Yintai") for US$600 million in cash,
subject to certain closing and post-closing adjust-
ments, pursuant to a share purchase agreement
that was executed on May 16, 2016.
Eldorado is a Canada-based, low-cost gold pro-
ducer with operations in Turkey, Greece, Romania
and Brazil.
Yintai Resources Co. Ltd. is a non-ferrous met-
als mining company.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP acted as Ca-
nadian legal counsel to Yintai with a team that in-
cluded Michael Laffin, Zaichi Hu, Robert Kwauk,
Bruce Rose-Innes and Jackie Anderson. Jingtian
& Gongcheng Law Firm acted as Chinese coun-
sel to Yintai with a team that included Xiaofeng
Cheng, Wenting Jiang, Chaohui Wang, Zhiwei Xu
and Yingping Chen.
Eldorado's legal team, led by Dawn Moss, in-
