'THE WORLD CUP OF BUSINESS'
The scores are in and Alcan Inc.'s David L. McAusland is InHouse-ZSA's 2007 Canadian Corporate Counsel Newsmaker of the Year. The $38.1-billion cash takeover of Alcan by Rio Tinto, amongst other things, kept McAusland busy for the better part of 2007, but he says he thrives on challenge as much as world-class athletes do.
By Kirsten McMahon T
o say 2007 was a big year for Alcan Inc.'s David L. McAusland is, well, the understatement of the year. "To be perfectly honest, it's been a big eight or nine years for me," McAusland says from his Mon- treal office. For the time being, he's tying up loose ends
at Alcan Inc. — now known as Rio Tinto Alcan — before moving on to the unknown. "I'm trying to get out of Dodge as they say, and it's like
one of those horror movies where the hand keeps coming up from the grave and pulling me back," he jokes. It's been a banner year for McAusland and Montreal-
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