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DesLauriers, J. Mark Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-6709 mdeslauriers@osler.com
Mr. DesLauriers's practice focuses on cross-border finance and the regulation
of securities and derivatives marketplaces, dealers and advisors. Clients
include investment banks, securities dealers, financial institutions, asset
managers, securities and derivatives marketplaces, and corporate investors.
Desbarats, QC, Robert P. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(403) 260-7015 rdesbarats@osler.com
Mr. Desbarats advises Canadian, US and foreign clients on complex domestic
and cross-border energy transactions. His experience engages the oil & gas
and power generation sectors, and the purchase and sale of energy assets
and companies.
Denstedt, QC, Shawn H.T. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(403) 260-7088 sdenstedt@osler.com
Mr. Denstedt is a Partner of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and his practice
is comprised of energy, mining, environmental, regulatory and Aboriginal law
matters. He has advised Canada's largest energy industry associations in
respect of regulatory reform for energy project development. He has appeared
in major proceedings before many of Canada's major regulatory tribunals.
Davies, QC, Donald G. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(403) 267-8183 don.davies@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Davies practises energy law, with a focus on the regulatory and litigation
fields. He has acted for both proponents and intervenors in many applications
for the approval of pipeline facilities and for the determination of pipeline
tolls and tariffs. His cases typically involve complex environmental, Aboriginal,
constitutional, jurisdictional, economic and financial issues.
d'Anglejan-Chatillon, Alix Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3240 adanglejan@stikeman.com
Ms. d'Anglejan-Chatillon is Co-Chair of the Financial Products & Services
Group. Her practice focuses on investment management, the regulation
of capital markets and securities and derivatives trading. She also advises
on operations, fundraising activities, downstream investments, as well
as in connection with M&A, spin-out and other corporate transactions
in the asset management space.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
mining where Canadian companies are leading
competitors, operating around the world. When
your customers are in places like Europe and Asia,
why get over-concerned with what's happening
in the US? "Clearly, uncertainty about NAFTA
could be detrimental [to M&A] but of course it
depends on the industry you're in," says Jeremy
Fraiberg, a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
LLP and co-chair of the firm's M&A group.
Jonathan Feldman, a partner at Goodmans
LLP, says his firm's M&A practice was the busi-
est it's ever been for much of last year, and that
looks set to continue, despite the dark clouds over
Washington. Clients are wary of the situation, but
as long as it's unresolved they have no choice but
to react to real and existing factors. "I think tax
reform [in the US] is supercharging confidence,
and if you look at it in the US, deal-making is off
the charts," he says. "M&A activity is as robust as
it's ever been, and it's mega-deals — they're doing
huge deals right now. e M&A market in the US
has been on fire."
Part of the reason the environment in Canada
is so buoyant is that the optimistic mood is spill-
ing over from the US. "e Canadian economy
is doing really well," says Davies' Shishler. Com-
panies have fixed their balance sheets, there's a lot
of liquidity, the banks are willing to lend. ese
macroeconomic factors helped propel the M&A
market in 2017 and "when you reach out to in-
vestment bankers, there's a great deal of optimism
around what 2018 will look like."
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