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Cusinato, Curtis Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5221 ccusinato@stikeman.com
Mr. Cusinato is a senior partner and the former Head of the Toronto Corporate
Department and National Corporate Practice Group. His practice emphasizes
domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, private equity and capital
market transactions. His clients include domestic and foreign public, private
and multinational companies, private equity groups and investment
and merchant banks.
Corbett, Leland P. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(403) 266-9046 lcorbett@stikeman.com
Mr. Corbett's corporate-commercial practice embraces public and private
capital markets transactions, including corporate and investment banking
matters, share and asset acquisitions and dispositions, securities dealings
and other M&A.
Colborne, Michael W. Thorsteinssons LLP
(416) 864-9783 mwcolborne@thor.ca
Mr. Colborne's practice focuses on corporate and international tax planning,
regularly advising Canadian and foreign-based multi-national groups on
a variety of matters, including financing, mergers & acquisitions and natural
resource taxation. He also has considerable experience in handling tax
controversy issues in Canada and a number of other countries.
Clifford, John F. McMillan LLP
(416) 865-7134 john.clifford@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Clifford is recognized internationally as one of Canada's leader
M&A lawyers. He has extensive experience advising Canadian
and international clients on domestic and cross-border acquisitions,
divestitures and complex reorganizations.
Ciardullo, John J. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5235 jciardullo@stikeman.com
Mr. Ciardullo is a partner and Head of the Corporate Group in Toronto.
His practice focuses on a wide range of corporate and securities transactions
with particular emphasis on complex M&A transactions; proxy contests/
contested meetings and corporate restructurings. He was on the Securities
Advisory Committee to the OSC, publishes frequently, and speaks regularly
on topics related to M&A.
Christian, Jeff Lawson Lundell LLP
(604) 631-9115 jchristian@lawsonlundell.com
Mr. Christian is a litigation partner of Lawson Lundell, with a practice focused
on energy project approvals and economic regulation. He represents project
proponents, utilities, and power marketers in proceedings before tribunals
such as the BCUC, the AUC and the NEB. He was named Energy Regulatory
Law Lawyer of the Year in Vancouver for 2013 by Best Lawyers in Canada .
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M&A practitioners, these are good times. Indeed,
says Graves, deal flow in 2017 was "largely unaf-
fected" by President Trump's NAFTA comments.
According to data from omson Reuters, ac-
tivity in the first nine months of 2017 (the most
recent figures available) reached their highest level
since the financial crisis, with transaction value
rising to $209.7 billion, up 17 per cent from the
prior year, helped by a strong economy and rising
confidence. "From my perspective in the areas
that I work in, [M&A players] aren't really giving
a whole lot of thought about NAFTA," says Ali-
cia Quesnel, a partner at Burnet, Duckworth &
Palmer LLP.
Based in Calgary, Quesnel focuses on the
Energy sector, where she's involved primarily in
M&A for large and mid-size companies. Despite
languishing crude prices, the sector continues to
be active as companies look to diversify and take
advantage of historically low prices. "You know,
NAFTA is interesting," she says, but the Energy
sector has much more immediate concerns, such
as the price of oil. "With the oil industry you're
talking about global markets and commodity
prices. at's the big determinant for how much
you're going to get paid for your product. Some
of our biggest issues are pipeline constraints and
how do you get to markets that are more lucra-
tive. If we can't get our product to market, [that's
a problem]."
at's a common perspective in resource sec-
tors where prices are set globally, and especially in
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