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include some of the nation's largest devel- opers, owners and managers, contractors, consortiums, international family offices, leading financial institutions, investment dealers and intermediaries, governments, government agencies and Crown corpo- rations. At Mount Sinai Hospital in To- ronto, Shapira has been a Governor and a Member of Leadership Sinai and the Venture Sinai Program since 2004. He has been a Committee Member for the real estate industry's Hold'em For Life Charity Challenge since 2013. AARON E. SONSHINE Bennett Jones LLP Toronto Aaron Sonshine practises corporate and securities law with particular emphasis on corporate finance, M&A, private equity and corporate governance matters. In his M&A practice, he advises acquirors and target companies involved in friendly and hostile takeover bids, plans of arrangement, reverse takeovers and other business com- bination transactions. In his corporate fi- nance practice, Sonshine represents issuers, securities dealers and institutional inves- tors in a wide range of financing transac- tions, including IPOs, secondary offerings, private placements, and other forms of debt and equity financing. His corporate gover- nance experience includes advising man- agement and boards of directors on execu- tive and board compensation, director and officer liability, and regulatory compliance matters. He acts for Vaxil Bio Ltd., the first Israeli biotech listing on the TSX, and is part of the legal advisory team to the TSX and TSX-V in its outreach to the Israeli tech sector to identify new Canadian list- ing opportunities. DEANDRA L. SCHUBERT McCarthy Tétrault LLP Toronto Deandra Schubert is a lawyer in McCar- thy Tétrault LLP's Business Law Group in Toronto. Her practice focuses on public and private M&A, corporate finance (eq- uity and debt), corporate governance and shareholder activism and general corpo- rate matters. Schubert has had several key roles on a range of market-leading transac- tions. She recently led the Jamieson Well- ness Inc. IPO (which raised approximately $345 million). And she quarterbacked the Fairfax Africa Holdings Corporation IPO. At one point, she was seconded to Fairfax Financial Holdings where she led, from an in-house legal perspective, the $1-billion IPO of Fairfax India on the TSX. Schubert is the first chair of the organizing commit- tee for the Toronto Board of Trade Young Professionals Network, which grew in its first year to a network of 700 professionals and now, in its second year, is at over 1,200 young professionals. DANIEL SHAPIRA Wildeboer Dellelce LLP Toronto Daniel Shapira handles a wide variety of commercial real estate projects, from beginning to end, in all areas of commer- cial real estate, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, property development, commercial leasing and fi- nancings. Representing both private and public-sector interests, Shapira's clients P.L. (LONNY) TETLEY Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP Calgary Lonny Tetley is a securities and M&A partner at Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP. Tetley is an active member of the Uni- versity of Calgary Dinos Hockey alumni, which raises funding for the hockey and educational programs of his alma mater. He is very active in the community, with some of his recent charitable fundraising efforts being focused on the Calgary Police Foundation, Ronald McDonald House, the Alberta Children's Hospital, the Spe- cial Olympics, Operation Christmas Child and multiple cancer charities. He also men- tors U of C graduates, providing pro bono business and legal services to start-up busi- nesses. His nominator wrote: "He has con- sistently demonstrated the ability to foster new relationships and generate new and continuous work through his legal knowl- edge, superior and timely service, business sense and strong and lasting business and personal relationships." JOHN UHREN BMO Capital Markets Toronto John Uhren is Senior Counsel and Direc- tor of the Legal, Corporate and Compli- ance Group within BMO Capital Markets Legal. He provides legal and advisory sup- port to Global Structured Products (GSP), including through structuring and docu- menting a variety of investment solutions to retail, institutional and private-wealth | RISING STARS | LEXPERT MAGAZINE | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 61