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Legal Media Group/Euromoney's IFLR1000 The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms 2008—Leading lawyer in capital markets

Woodward White’s Best Lawyers in Canada 2008—Corporate law

Practical Law Company’s Cross-border Capital Markets Handbook 2007/2008—Recommended leading practitioner

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2006—Up-and-coming practitioner in corporate finance

Lexpert/American Lawyer Media’s Guide to the leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2006—One of Canada’s 40 corporate lawyers to watch

Woodward White’s Best Lawyers in Canada 2006—Corporate law

• Gerdau Ameristeel
  • in its US$4.22 billion acquisition of Chaparral Steel
  • in its offering in Canada and the United States of 74 million common shares
  • in its US$400 million U.S. private placement of senior notes
• Brookfield Asset Management (formerly Brascan)
  • in its spin out of its infrastructure operations, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP
  • in the reorganization of Noranda and Falconbridge and the sale of 73 million common shares of Falconbridge to Xstrata
• Custom Direct Income Fund
  • in its C$199 million sale to EdgeStone Capital Partners
  • and Davis + Henderson Income Fund in their initial public offerings
• Scotia Capital
  • and the other underwriters in the offering by Focused Global Trends Fund
  • and RBC Financial and the other underwriters in the initial public offering of Lakeport Brewing Income Fund
  • and the other underwriters in the public offering of Premium Brands Income Fund
• OccuLogix in its initial public offering in Canada and the United States
• Brascade in its sale of 10 million common shares of Norbord and its issuance of C$225 million principal amount of 25-year debentures exchangeable into 20 million common shares of Norbord
• BAM Split (formerly BNN Split) in its C$200 million public offering of fixed cumulative preferred shares, and BAM Investments in it issuance of debentures exchangeable for Class A shares of Brookfield Asset Management
• Brascan in its combination with Brascan Financial and its privatization of Brascade Resources
• MDC Partners in its sale of units of Custom Direct Income Fund and of adjustable rate securities exchangeable into units of the Fund
• CIBC World Markets
  • and the other underwriters in offerings by Energy Savings Income Fund and Noranda
  • with Scotia Capital and the other underwriters in the initial public offering and follow-on secondary offering of Noranda Income Fund
  • and National Bank Financial in the initial public offering of BFI Canada Income Fund
• Gerdau S.A. in the combination of its North American operations with Co-Steel to form Gerdau Ameristeel
• TLCVision (formerly TLC Laser Eye Centers) in its merger with Laser Vision Centers, equity investment in and joint venture with Vascular Sciences and cross-border equity financings
• Oncap L.P. in the acquisition of BAE Systems Canada
• National Bank of Canada in the acquisition of First Marathon Securities
• Uniphase in the cross-border merger with JDS FITEL
• Coors in its joint venture with Molson