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EVENT PARTNER www.lawawards.ca 59 INSOLVENCY & RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR WINNER Tacora Resources Inc.'s restructuring under CCAA Canadian Law Firms: Bennett Jones LLP (acted for the primary creditor group); Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP (FTI Consulting Canada Inc.); Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (CrossingBridge Advisors, LLC); Goodmans LLP (counsel to Cargill, Incorporated and Cargill International Trading Pte Ltd.); McCarthy Tétrault LLP (for the controlling shareholder on the Tacora CCAA process); Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (lead counsel for Millstreet and OSP); Stikeman Elliott LLP (counsel to the debtor, Tacora) Organizations: Cargill, Incorporated; FTI Consulting Canada Inc.; GLC Advisors and Co. LLC; Greenhill Co & Canada Ltd; Jefferies LLC; Tacora EXCELLENCE AWARDEES Ayr Wellness cross-border cannabis restructuring Canadian Law Firms: Goodmans LLP (Canadian counsel to the Plan Sponsors and Ad Hoc Committee); Stikeman Elliott LLP (lead counsel to Ayr Wellness) Non-Canadian Law Firms: Paul Hastings LLP (US counsel to the Ad Hoc committee of senior noteholders); Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (US counsel to Ayr Wellness) Organizations: Ducera (financial advisor to the Ad Hoc committee); Moelis (financial advisor to Ayr Wellness) Taiga Motors Corp Inc.'s insolvency process Canadian Law Firms: Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (counsel for Deloitte Restructuring); Lavery de Billy LLP (counsel for the acquirer – Stewart Wilkinson); Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP (acted for Taiga Motors); Stikeman Elliott LLP (counsel for Export Development Canada) Organizations: Ernst & Young Inc.; Deloitte Restructuring Xplore's C$1.8 billion recapitalization Canadian Law Firms: Bennett Jones LLP (for primary creditor group); Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (counsel to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP; Chaitons LLP (lead counsel to Amynta Surety Solutions); Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (for Xplore; Goodmans LLP (lead counsel to Xplore Inc.); McCarthy Tetrault LLP Non-Canadian Law Firms: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (ad hoc committee counsel to the term lenders); Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP LLP (lead US counsel to Xplore); Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (for Stonepeak) Organizations: Perella Weinberg Partners (as lead financial advisor to Xplore); FTI (as financial advisor to Xplore); Greenhill (as financial advisor to the committee of ad hoc term lenders) INFRASTRUCTURE & PROJECTS DEAL OF THE YEAR WINNER Coastal GasLink Pipeline Limited Partnership's C$7.15 billion refinancing Canadian Law Firms: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (counsel to Coastal GasLink Pipeline); Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP (counsel to Joint Lead Agents); Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (counsel to KKR and AIMCo) Non-Canadian Law Firm: Mayer Brown LLP (US counsel to Coastal GasLink Pipeline) Organizations: BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc.; CIBC World Markets Inc.; Merrill Lynch Canada Inc.; RBC Dominion Securities Inc. EXCELLENCE AWARDEES Fengate's C$1.8 billion recapitalization transaction of eStruxture Canadian Law Firms: Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (eStruxture counsel); Gowling WLG; Miller Thomson LLP (counsel to CDPQ); Stikeman Elliott (counsel to Fengate) Non-Canadian Law firm: Kirkland & Ellis LLP (for Fengate) Organizations: Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec; Campbell Lutyens; DH Capital; eStruxture Data Centers; Fengate Asset Management; KPMG; Leo Berwick Surrey Langley Skytrain's C$5.996 billion project Canadian Law Firms: Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (acted for SkyLink Guideway Partners); McCarthy Tetrault LLP (for the lenders to SkyLink Guideway Partners); Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP (acted for the Province of British Columbia) Weeneebayko Area Health Authority's C$1.8 billion redevelopment Canadian Law Firms: Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (legal advisors to Pomerleau Inc.); Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (legal counsel to Infrastructure Ontario and the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (Hospital)); Stikeman Elliott (legal advisor to the Lenders) Organizations: Caixabank, S.A. (Lender); Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec (Lender); Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Canada) (Lender); Pomerleau Inc. and its affiliates (Preferred Proponent, Dev Co, Project Co); PwC (financial advisor to Pomerleau Inc.); Royal Bank of Canada (Lender)

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