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Cornell has represented

• Rogers Communications and BCE in their C$1.3 billion joint acquisition of a significant stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
• Scotiabank in its
• C$3.1 billion acquisition of ING Bank of Canada from ING Group
• C$2.3 billion acquisition of DundeeWealth
• The Woodbridge Company in its acquisition of a direct ownership of The Globe and Mail and CTVglobemedia in its C$3.2 billion sale to BCE
• Thomson Reuters in various M&A and capital markets transactions including its
• US$18 billion acquisition of Reuters Group to form Thomson Reuters under Canada's first dual listed company structure and the subsequent unification of that structure
• US$7.75 billion sale of Thomson Learning’s higher education, careers and library reference assets as well as Nelson Canada
• US$1 billion cross-border public offering of common shares and listing on the NYSE
• Brookfield companies in various M&A and capital markets transactions including
• the spinoff of commercial property operations to create Brookfield Property Partners
• Brookfield Office Properties in the US$1.2 billion sale of its residential land division through a merger with Brookfield Homes and rights offering
• Brookfield Office Properties in its A$3.8 billion acquisition of an Australian office property portfolio valued at US$3.3 billion
• Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in its US$2.5 billion merger with Prime Infrastructure Group
• BPO Properties in its REIT conversion to create Brookfield Office Properties Canada
• Brookfield Special Situations in recapitalizations of Ainsworth Lumber
• Brookfield Office Properties in its US$1.04 billion cross-border offering of common shares
• Brookfield Asset Management in the privatization of NBS Technologies
• CTVglobemedia in its C$1.7 billion acquisition of CHUM
• Maple Leaf Heritage Investments Acquisition Corporation in its C$1.1 billion acquisition of Hudson’s Bay Company
• Sears Canada in the C$2.3 billion sale of its credit and financial services operations to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Cornell is a member of the board of directors of the National Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation.

For the past two years, Cornell has co-chaired the annual Champions of Public Education Tribute Dinner, in support of The Learning Partnership.

Cornell is a member of the steering committee for the Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS) program.

Previously, he was a council member of the Law Alumni Association of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and a member of the board of directors of Goodwill Toronto and the North Toronto Collegiate Institute Foundation Advisory Board.