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w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m M A Y 2 0 1 6 37 Michael Evrensel & Pawar LLP (MEP Business Counsel) Vancouver meplaw.ca Wildeboer Dellelce LLP Toronto wildlaw.ca Miller Titerle + Co. LLP Vancouver millertiterle.com Ryan Michael Patryluk, Arthur Evrensel, and Marshall Pawar founded MEP Business Counsel in March 2014. Seasoned corporate and entertainment lawyers who have practised across Canada and around the globe, the trio brought significant private M&A, corporate, and entertainment law expertise to the firm. The firm advises some of North America's most progressive companies in both established and leading-edge industries. The firm represented the National Hockey League with various corporate matters relating to the presentation of the 2014 Heritage Classic game at BC Place. It's also advising Shoes.com and Hardy Capital Corp. on multiple acquisitions of e-commerce companies as well as multiple capital-raising transactions in excess of $120 million. MEP repre- sents Thunderbird Films Inc. on multiple strategic acquisitions including Great Pacific Media, Atomic Cartoons, and Soda Pictures Ltd., and it is counsel to numerous producers and lenders in connection with debt and equity financings, including Oscar-nominated picture Room and the feature Goon: Last of the Enforcers. Wildeboer Dellelce LLP was founded in 1993 by five lawyers looking to build a different kind of Bay Street busi- ness law firm — one that focused on the needs of entrepreneurs in Canada. The 31-lawyer firm delivers trans- actional legal services to private and public clients in all industries. It does work in corporate finance, M&A, tax, debt products, structured finance, corporate governance, corporate commercial, and commercial real estate. Its clients include public and private company issuers, investment dealers, lenders (both traditional and alter- native) and sponsors of investment funds, venture capital funds, and private equity funds. Wildeboer Dellelce has worked with the majority of independent and bank-owned investment dealers as well as companies such as Aecon, Aequitas Innovations, Agility Health, Arrow Capital, Axiom, BIOX Corp., BlackBerry, Brick Brewing, Canadian First Financial, CI Financial, Infor Financial, Lendified, Market Square Limited Partners, Martinrea, Purpose Investments, Slate Asset Management, and SunOpta Inc. The firm has also acted for all of the Canadian chartered banks and is the legal adviser for CBC's Dragon's Den. In 2010, Rob Miller and Jim Titerle left a national law firm to pursue their vision of establishing a firm based on innovating the delivery of legal services and close client relationships. MT+Co. has grown from three business lawyers to a 13-lawyer firm offering a full range of business legal services, including M&A, financing, resources, major projects, First Nations eco- nomic development, and business advisory. The firm's clients include Tahltan Central Government, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc., iQmetrix Software Develop- ment Corp., TimberWest Forest Corp., and Royal Gold Inc. MT+Co. is counsel to Tahltan Central Gov- ernment in the negotiation of a co-management and benefits agreement with the owner of the Red Chris Mine located within Tahltan territory. It also repre- sented Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Corp. in the acquisition of pulp mills located in B.C., Saskatche- wan, and Nova Scotia, and acted for Vancouver-based Pulse Energy in its acquisition by EnerNOC, Inc. SkyLaw PC Toronto skylaw.ca Kevin West founded SkyLaw in 2010 after having worked at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Davies LLP. West want- ed to use technology to create an innovative platform where he could continue to work on sophisticated trans- actions. The firm now has six people working in a new, custom-built office space in Toronto. Its notable transac- tions include: its third Canadian acquisition for NYSE- listed United Rentals, Inc., the world's largest equipment rental company, in September 2015; the acquisition by plan of arrangement of Candax Energy Inc., a TSX-listed oil and gas company for SkyLaw client Geofinance N.V. in November 2015; and the spinoff of the health-care business of TSX-listed NexJ Systems Inc. in January 2016. It's also advising the target board of directors of a TSX-V-listed company on a negotiated acquisition by a larger public company. Its clients include United Rent- als, Geofinance N.V., NexJ Systems Inc., a variety of local and international law firms, and startups and early-stage clients.

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