30 LEXPERT MAGAZINE
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MARCH/APRIL 2018
COVER STORY
AS THE ONLY PROGRAM
OF ITS KIND IN CANADA,
THE CANADIAN DEALMAKERS
AWARDS RECOGNIZE
PARTICIPANTS WHO
HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO THE M&A MARKET
IT HAS BEEN 11 YEARS SINCE LEXPERT,
together with Deloitte,
e Globe and Mail and omson Reuters, created the Canadian Dealmak-
ers Program. e impetus was, and still is, to look behind the deals that shape
Canada's capital markets and celebrate the executives, in-house counsel, law-
yers and bankers — some of this country's sharpest minds — who together
shaped the key transactions.
is is how the program works: Deloitte's organizing committee draws to-
gether nominations, then turns them over to an adjudication panel, which de-
termines which of the candidates best benefited their industries and Canada's
capital markets as a whole. e panelists, leaders in the business community,
look for hallmarks of excellence, which can range from creating shareholder
value to promoting growth and innovation or steering a deal through new legal
or regulatory terrain.
Once the decisions are made, the winners are recognized at the annual Ca-
nadian Dealmakers gala dinner, which brings some of the M&A and corporate
world's leading players together to mix and mingle and celebrate the Art of the
Deal. is year's gala was held on March 8 at the Fairmont Royal York hotel in
Toronto. Here are our Canadian Dealmakers award winners for 2017.
BY SANDRA RUBIN
DEALMAKERS OF 2017
CANADIAN
