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Jean Cumming
Editor-in-Chief
EDITORIAL
Top Deals, Top Deal Lawyers
COMPANY EXECUTIVES and investors oen view their lawyers differently
once they've been through a deal. If their lawyers are creative and ethical, they
will have aimed to deliver a deal in which all stakeholders win: the acquirer, pur-
chaser, underwriters, investors, employees, customers and the economy. Even in
a hostile takeover, at some point, the company has to get back to work. Once that
happens, clients will notice the difference their lawyers made.
Transactional counsel generally operate behind-the-scenes; except at Lexpert,
of course. ere is much excitement around here in the lead-up to our Top Deals
article (see p. 30). Corporate lawyers turn into advocates, enthusiastically shar-
ing with us their opinions on which deals they suggest merit attention. To you
who do not see the deals you championed in these pages, please know that these
deals too are in excellent company. One such deal was the Canadian Cancer So-
ciety amalgamation with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, completed
on February 1, 2017. Marc Genereux of McMillan LLP, which represented the
Canadian Cancer Society, had this to say about working on that deal:
"e two organizations were charities, whose missions were for the good of
the population. In a merger of this type, it is all about continuing and moving
the missions to a higher level and increasing efficiencies. e legal work needs
to be in line with this. At the same time Board members were people who have
been touched by cancer one way or another (themselves or relatives) and have
dedicated a lot of their time for the good of others. In addition to the business
side of these mergers, there is a higher level of emotion that needed to be taken
into account by lawyers and to make it happen is a reward in itself for all those
involved, lawyers included. Beyond that, it was the thing to do."
fortuna favet fortibus
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
VOLUME 19 NO. 3
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jean Cumming
EDITOR
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