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Mongeau, Éric Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3043 emongeau@stikeman.com
Mr. Mongeau's practice is focused in the energy, transportation,
telecommunications and construction sectors, and in the fields of
administrative law and defamation law, with a particular expertise
in commercial arbitration. Pleads before civil courts under provincial
and federal jurisdictions, including the Supreme Court of Canada,
as well as in front of administrative and arbitration tribunals.
Milne-Smith, Matthew Davies Ward Phillips
& Vineberg LLP (416) 863-5595 mmilne-smith@dwpv.com
Mr. Milne-Smith's practice focuses on high-stakes commercial litigation
including class actions, contractual claims, securities law disputes,
constitutional challenges, insolvency proceedings and novel tort claims. His
aggressive approach has frequently resulted in successfully defeating claims
either in advance of trial or by way of expedited trial proceedings.
Millar, W.A. Derry WeirFoulds LLP
(416) 947-5021 dmillar@weirfoulds.com
Mr. Millar practises exclusively civil litigation and administrative law. He has
appeared in all levels of court in Ontario, the Supreme Court of Canada and
the Federal Court, and many administrative tribunals. He is an experienced
arbitrator and mediator. He was an elected bencher of the Law Society of
Upper Canada from 1995 to 2008 and Treasurer (President) from June 2008
to June 2010.
Michell, M. Paul Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
(416) 644-5359 pmichell@counsel-toronto.com
Mr. Michell's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and
arbitration, shareholder disputes, judicial review and civil appeals. He has
acted in a wide range of disputes in the Ontario and Federal Courts, the
Supreme Court of Canada and before administrative and arbitral tribunals.
Fellow of the CIArb and has been appointed an arbitrator.
Melchers, Sophie Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(514) 847-4784 sophie.melchers@nortonrosefulbright.com
Ms. Melchers focuses on commercial, corporate and securities litigation.
This encompasses representation of reporting issuers or their executives
in litigation related to hostile take-overs, dissenting shareholder remedies
or plans of arrangement or in regulatory investigations into potential
breaches of the securities legislation (tipping, insider trading, market
manipulation, etc.).
Meghji, Al Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-5677 ameghji@osler.com
Mr. Meghji is the leader of the Osler National Tax Litigation practice who
splits his time between the firm's Calgary and Toronto offices. He is widely
regarded as one of Canada's leading tax litigators and counsel to leading
Canadian and multinational corporations in significant and complex
corporate tax litigation matters.
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e Port Transaction was carried out under a
Master Purchase and Sale Agreement (the MPSA)
whereby Portco agreed to pay Algoma $171.5
million for conveyance of its port assets and as
prepaid rent for the lease of the port lands. Under
the MPSA, Algoma and Portco entered the fol-
lowing agreements to effect the transaction: (a) a
lease of the port lands from Algoma to Portco for
50 years; (b) the Cargo Handling Agreement, a
take-or-pay contract under which Portco agreed
to provide cargo handling services to Algoma for
an initial term of 20 years and Algoma commit-
ted to pay for a minimum volume of cargo at the
Port each year ($36 million per annum); and (c)
the Shared Services Agreement, under which Al-
goma agreed to provide all the services and em-
ployees necessary for Portco to fulfill its obliga-
tions under the Cargo Handling Agreement in
return for a payment of $11 million annually. e
Cargo Handling Agreement contained a change-
