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42 M A Y 2 0 1 6 w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m Stockwoods LLP Toronto stockwoods.ca Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP Toronto tgf.ca Stockwoods says it's unique among Canadian litigation boutiques in its ability to represent clients across the spectrum of civil, criminal, and regulatory litigation. The diverse practice of the firm's 20 lawyers includes representing financial institutions, investment dealers and professionals, a number of professional regulatory bodies, and the Canadian Broad- casting Corporation, as well as accused in white-collar criminal prosecutions. Recent mandates include advising an inde- pendent committee of the board of Intertain Group Ltd. investigating allegations of a short seller, acting as court counsel assisting the judges administering the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and defending Uber driver- partners in regulatory prosecutions. The firm has deep experience in representing clients in inquisitorial proceedings such as commissions of inquiry and coroners' inquests, and it maintains a thriving tribunal advisory practice. In a single week in November 2015, members of the firm appeared as counsel in three Supreme Court of Canada cases, including an important case concerning prosecutions under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. Founded by Robert Thornton, James Grout, and John Finnigan in 1998, the 17-lawyer boutique firm takes on some of the most complex commercial litigation and restructuring cases in Canada. These include top-level M&A litigation, international securities fraud cases, and complex insolvency litigation. The firm represents the largest single creditor in the worldwide Nortel Networks proceedings — the U.K. Pension Plan for 33,000 remaining pensioners within a US$3.2-billion deficit in their pension plan. In the restricting of the Coopers & Lybrand partnership, TGF was retained after what had been described by the presiding judge as "the longest-running judicial saga" in Canadian history after 20 years of litigation. TGF represented Coopers & Lybrand in developing a multi-party settlement of the litigation. The firm later successfully defended creditor claims brought against Coopers & Lybrand with a face value of $400 million. The team led by Finnigan is the court-appointed litigation counsel to the litigation trustee to advance complex commercial claims against Cash Store Inc.'s former advisers for professional negligence and breach of contract. Untitled-9 1 2016-04-13 4:07 PM WE CAN HANDLE ANY PITCH. LITIGATIONBOUTIQUE.COM Untitled-11 1 2016-04-13 4:18 PM

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