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THE LEADING EDGE:
STRENGTH
IN TURBULENT ECONOMIC TIMES
The 15th Annual Conference of the JD/MBA Students’ Association
WITH THE HONORABLE LEO E. STRINE, JR.
CHANCELLOR, DELAWARE COURT OF CHANCERY
February 3, 2012
Toronto
www.jdmbaconference.com
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Conference Sponsors
Students’ Association Welcome
The JD/MBA Students’ Association is grateful to the following sponsors for their support:
Dear Speakers and Guests,
Platinum Sponsor:
On behalf of the JD/MBA Students’ Association, we would like to welcome you to the 15th Annual JD/MBA Conference. Each year,
the Association organizes and hosts a conference that explores topical issues affecting both the legal and business communities. The purpose of our Conference is to demonstrate the overlapping and inseparable nature of law and business and, consequently, the value of combining a legal and business education. This year’s conference, The Leading Edge: Strength in Turbulent
Economic Times, aims to bring together prominent leaders, practitioners and professionals from legal, business, government
and academic backgrounds. Together, they will lead discussions on how organizations are maintaining or creating competitive
advantages in the face of ongoing economic challenges.
Media Sponsors:
We would like to thank the sponsors, speakers, professors, staff from both Osgoode and Schulich, as well as all of the volunteers
who generously donated their time and resources to this year’s Conference. This year’s event would not be possible without their
collective effort. In particular, we would like to thank the Joint JD/MBA Program Directors, Professors Peter Macdonald and Tom
Johnson, as well as Edward Waitzer for all of their guidance and dedication to the success of the conference.
Gold Sponsors:
In addition to this year’s conference, the JD/MBA Students’ Association provides a number of other exciting opportunities for
students of the Joint Program. Over the past year, students have enjoyed the chance to engage with alumni of the program,
while gaining insight through student-to-student mentorship and various career events. The Association is grateful for its ongoing partnership with the Hennick Centre for Business and Law, which has further enriched the student experience by exposing
students to a number of unique opportunities to engage with leading academics and practitioners from both law and business.
These invaluable opportunities have helped students broaden their perspectives on industries and organizations, while introducing them to potential career paths.
We thank you for participating in this year’s Conference and for supporting the JD/MBA Students’ Association. We hope that you
find today’s discussions both engaging and informative.
Silver Sponsors:
Sincerely,
Todd Melchior
Co-President
Bronze Sponsors:
Jamie Litchen
Co-President
Rochelle Hanson
Conference Chair
Daniel P. Cipollone
Conference Chair
Toronto | New York | Calgary
JD/MBA Students’ Association Executive
Torys is pleased to sponsor the
Co-Presidents:
Co-Conference Chairs:
Co-VP, External:
Co-VP, Internal:
Co-VP, Alumni Relations:
Treasurer:
First Year Reps:
Annual JD/MBA Conference
Conference Supporters:
Bennett Jones LLP
Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
THE LEADING EDGE:
STRENGTH
Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
McMillan LLP
Norton Rose Canada LLP
Stikeman Elliott LLP
BMO Capital Markets
Todd Melchior & Jamie Litchen
Rochelle Hanson & Daniel P. Cipollone
Ryan Mapa & Jason Pearlstein
Jared Puterman & Vincent Doré
Brett Kenworthy & Tatiana Romanov-Koffman
Amber Lam
Martin Hui & Lucy Liu
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Program
8:00 A.M. – 8:45 A.M.
Breakfast & Registration
Session 1 Panels: 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM
8:45 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.
Opening Remarks & Keynote
Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring: A Look at Nortel
Robin Schwill, Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Introduction
Lorne Sossin
Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School
Edward Sellers, Partner, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Sharon Hamilton, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
Moderated by Stephanie Ben-Ishai, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School; Affiliated Scholar, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.
Welcoming Remarks
Barbara Hennick
Co-Founder, The Hennick Centre for Business & Law
Evolving Regulatory Framework for Financial Institutions
Tom Smee, VP & Deputy General Counsel, Royal Bank of Canada
Ian Russell, President & CEO, Investment Industry Association of Canada
Marion Wrobel, Vice President, Policy and Operations, Canadian Bankers Association
Keynote Dialogue
The Honorable Leo E. Strine, Jr.
Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
with
Edward J. Waitzer
Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School & Schulich School of Business
Senior Partner, Stikeman Elliot LLP
Moderated by Peter Macdonald, Professor, Schulich School of Business.
Tech Talk: Leveraging the Power of Social Media
Graham Ross, Head of Marketing, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Mia Pearson, Co-Founder, North Strategic
Jayne Hoogenberk, Manager, Community & Social Content, Digital & Internet, Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Chandler Lauzon, Manager, Business Development & Marketing, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Moderated by Robert Kozinets, Professor, Schulich School of Business.
10:30 A.M. – 10:45 A.M.
Coffee Break
10:45 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.
Concurrent Panels, Session 1
Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Restructuring: A Look at Nortel
Evolving Regulatory Framework for Financial Institutions
Tech Talk: Leveraging the Power of Social Media
Session 2 Panels: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Global Impact: Power of Large Funds, Sovereign and Public
André Bourbonnais, Senior Vice-President, Private Investments, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board
Keith Ambachtsheer, Director, Rotman International Centre for Pension Management, Rotman School of Management, University of
Toronto; Founder, KPA Advisory Services Ltd
11:45 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Coffee Break
12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Concurrent Panels, Session 2
Global Impact: Power of Large Funds, Sovereign and Public
New Perspectives in Leadership
Enforcing the Ontario Securities Act Internationally: The Challenges of Foreign Issuers
1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Philippe Bergevin, Senior Analyst, C.D. Howe Institute
Moderated by Edward J. Waitzer, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School & Schulich School of Business; Senior Partner, Stikeman Elliott LLP.
New Perspectives in Leadership
Danielle Traub, Associate, McCarthy Tétrault LLP; President, Young Women in Law
Ritu Bhasin, Principal, Bhasin Consulting
Lunch
Joy Casey, Founder, A Call to Action Canada; General Counsel, Aurora Holdings Co. Ltd
Presentation of Hennick Award of Excellence to Arlene Mack
Tom Johnson
Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Moderated by David Conklin, Executive in Residence, Schulich School of Business; Counsel, Goodmans LLP.
Closing Remarks
Jamie Litchen & Todd Melchior
Co-Presidents, JD/MBA Students’ Association
Andrew Foley, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Enforcing the Ontario Securities Act Internationally: The Challenges of Foreign Issuers
Ava Yaskiel, Partner, Norton Rose Canada LLP
Monica Kowal, Senior Legal Counsel, OSC
Moderated by Poonam Puri, Associate Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School.
Messages from the Deans
On behalf of Osgoode Hall Law School, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 15th Annual JD/MBA Students’ Association Conference.
In 1972, Osgoode was the first law school in Canada to introduce a joint LLB/MBA program, now the JD/MBA program. I commend the JD/MBA Students’ Association for selecting such a timely and relevant topic for this year’s discussion - Strength in
Turbulent Economic Times. As Canada and the world continues to emerge from the global financial crisis, it is more important
than ever that leaders in law, business and public policy reflect on how to survive - and thrive - in a time of flux and change. Leo
Strine Jr., the Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, is an ideal keynote speaker to elaborate on this theme, particularly
given the leadership of the Delaware Court in matters of corporate governance and innovation in corporate law. The breadth and
depth of the panel speaker’s expertise is extremely impressive. I am confident that this year’s conference, the flagship event of
the JD/MBA Students’ Association, will be engaging and informative.
Biographies
of Speakers,
Panelists &
Moderators
Thanks to all of you for participating in this exciting event.
Yours truly,
Lorne Sossin
Dean
Osgoode Hall Law School
To all of the delegates, presenters and guests at the 15th annual MBA/JD Conference, a very warm welcome on behalf of the
Schulich School of Business.
Established in the early 1970s, the joint MBA/JD was the first degree program of its kind in Canada and, indeed, one of the very
first in all of North America. It offers students the best in theory and practice in both business and law from two highly rated professional schools. Over the years, it has produced a large number of outstanding graduates who have distinguished themselves
in the fields of business and law.
The MBA/JD Conference has always presented highly relevant themes. This year’s conference is no exception. The theme of
“Strength in Turbulent Economic Times” is a rallying cry for both current and future leaders in business and law. Ever since the
economic meltdown, turbulence has become the norm – and in the years ahead, economies around the world will continue to
experience large-scale and sudden disruptions. Knowing how to strategically navigate this turbulent economic landscape and
capitalize on the turmoil will be vitally important.
I would like to offer my congratulations to the MBA/JD Conference executive team for all of their hard work in organizing this
event. The panel sessions and lineup of guest speakers and presenters are first-rate.
I’m confident that you will find this year’s conference to be a memorable and rewarding experience, and I encourage you to take
advantage of the many learning and networking opportunities it will offer.
Sincerely yours,
Dezsö J. Horváth, PhD, CM
Dean
Tanna H. Schulich Chair in Strategic Management
Schulich School of Business
The Honorable Leo E. Strine, Jr.
Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
On June 22, 2011, Leo E. Strine, Jr., became Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Before becoming Chancellor, Chancellor Strine had served since November 9, 1998 as a Vice
Chancellor of the Court. Since he joined the Court, Chancellor Strine has written numerous
opinions, particularly in the area of corporation law. Among the opinions Chancellor Strine
has authored are: In re Dollar Thrifty S’holder Litig., 14 A.3d 573 (Del. Ch. 2010); Yucaipa
American Alliance Fund II, L.P. v. Riggio, 1 A.3d 310 (Del. Ch. 2010); In Re American Intern.
Group, Inc., Del. Ch., 965 A.2d 763 (2009); Alliance Data v. Blackstone Capital, 963 A.2d
746 (Del. Ch. 2009); In re American Int’l Group, Inc. Derivative Litig., 976 A.2d 872 (Del.
Ch. 2009); In re Netsmart Technologies, Inc. Shareholders Litigation, 924 A.2d 171 (Del. Ch.
2007); Desimone v. Barrows, 924 A.2d 908 (Del. Ch. 2007); In re Lear Corp. Shareholder
Litigation, 926 A.2d 94 (Del. Ch. 2007); In re Topps Co. Shareholders Litigation, 924 A.2d 951
(Del. Ch. 2007); Trenwick America Litigation Trust v. Ernst & Young, L.L.P., 906 A.2d 168 (Del.
Ch. 2006); In re Cox Communications Inc., 879 A.2d 604 (Del. Ch. 2005); In re Toys “R” Us,
Inc. Shareholder Litigation, 877 A.2d 975 (Del. Ch. 2005); Hollinger Int’l, Inc. v. Black, 844
A.2d 1022 (Del. Ch. 2004); Production Resources Group, L.L.C. v. NCT Group, Inc., 863 A.2d
772 (Del. Ch. 2004); In re Pure Resources, Inc., Shareholders Litigation, 808 A.2d 421 (Del.
Ch. 2002); IBP, Inc. v. Tyson Foods Inc., 789 A.2d 14 (Del. Ch. 2001); In re Pennaco Energy,
Inc. Shareholders Litig., Del. Ch., 787 A.2d 691 (Del. Ch 2001); Chesapeake Corp. v. Shore,
771 A.2d 293 (Del. Ch. 2000); In re Gaylord Container Corp. Shareholders Litig., 753 A.2d 462
(Del. Ch. 2000); Ace, Ltd. v. Capital Re Corp., 747 A.2d 95 (Del. Ch. 1999).
Immediately before becoming a member of the Court of Chancery, Chancellor Strine was Counsel to Governor Thomas R. Carper
of the State of Delaware. In that capacity, Chancellor Strine was responsible for providing legal counsel to the Governor and
in 1994 assumed responsibility for overall policy coordination. In those capacities, Chancellor Strine played leading roles in,
among other things, developing the legal strategy for litigating the New Castle County desegregation case unitary status motion,
crafting the $200 million Delaware v. New York settlement, and drafting the welfare reform plan “A Better Chance.” He also
drafted and spearheaded the Governor’s effort to secure passage of the State’s standards-based educational accountability,
charter school and public school choice legislation.
In addition, Chancellor Strine speaks frequently on the subject of corporation law, at diverse
forums such as the New York University Center for Law and Business; the University of
Pennsylvania’s Corporate Law Conference; the Tulane Corporate Law Institute; Director’s
Colleges at Stanford Law School, Duke University, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton
School of Business; and the San Diego Securities Law Institute sponsored by Northwestern
University School of Law. He has also authored many articles on business law topics in
publications including The Business Lawyer, University of Chicago Law Review, Cornell
Law Review, Delaware Journal of Corporation Law, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review,
Northwestern University Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, University of
Southern California Law Review, Stanford Law Review and University of Toronto Law Journal.
On several occasions, Chancellor Strine’s articles have been selected as among the Best
Corporate and Securities Articles of the year, based on the choices of academic teachers.
Chancellor Strine resides in Hockessin, Delaware, with his wife Carrie, who is an occupational therapist at the DuPont Hospital
for Children, as well as two sons, James and Benjamin.
Before becoming Counsel to Governor Carper in January 1993, Chancellor Strine was a corporate litigator at the firm of Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Prior to that, Chancellor Strine was law clerk to Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit and Chief Judge John F. Gerry of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Chancellor
Strine graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1988, and was selected as a member of
the Order of the Coif. In 1985, he received his Bachelor’s Degree summa cum laude from the University of Delaware and was
selected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While at the University of Delaware, Chancellor Strine was awarded a Harry S. Truman
Scholarship. He was also named to the Panel of Distinguished Seniors of the College of Arts and Science, and selected as the
outstanding graduate in political science.
In December 2000, Governor Carper awarded Chancellor Strine the Order of the First State. On October 11, 2002, President
David Roselle of the University of Delaware presented Chancellor Strine with the University’s Presidential Citation for Outstanding
Achievement. From 2005 to the present, Chancellor Strine has been named as one of the nation’s top lawyers and judges by Law
Dragon magazine. Also, in 2006, he was selected as a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Chancellor Strine holds long-standing adjunct teaching positions at the Harvard, University
of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt and UCLA Schools of Law, where he has and continues to teach
diverse classes in corporate law addressing, among other topics, mergers and acquisitions,
the role of independent directors, valuation, and corporate law theories. Chancellor Strine
also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Program on Corporate Governance, as well
as the Austin Wakeman Scott Lecturer in Law at the Harvard Law School. Since 2006 to
the present, Chancellor Strine has served as the special judicial consultant to the ABA’s
Committee on Corporate Laws.
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Biographies
Biographies
Keith Ambachtsheer
Ritu Bhasin
Director, Rotman School of Management Int’l Centre for Pension Management, University of Toronto
Founder, KPA Advisory Services Ltd.
Panelist, Global Impact: Power of Large Funds, Sovereign and Public
Principal, Bhasin Consulting Inc.
Panelist, New Perspectives on Leadership
Keith Ambachtsheer is Director of the Rotman International Centre
for Pension Management, an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the
Rotman School of Management, Academic Director of the RotmanICPM Board Effectiveness Program, and Publisher and Editor of
the Rotman International Journal of Pension Management.
His firm, KPA Advisory Services Ltd, has provided strategic advice
on governance, finance, and investment matters to governments,
industry associations, pension-plan sponsors, foundations, and
other institutional investors around the world since 1985.
He is also a co-founder of CEM Benchmarking Inc which monitors
the organizational performance of 300 pension plans around the
world. Keith is the author of three books on pension management
and has received industry awards in Europe, the USA, and
Canada. He recently served as Board Chair of the Princess
Margaret Hospital Foundation and sits on two corporate boards.
He has written extensively and has won numerous awards.
Ritu Bhasin founded Bhasin Consulting Inc., a consulting firm
that works with a range of organizations on diversity, leadership,
and people strategies. Ritu has a breadth of expertise in: strategy
and implementation; talent management; career and leadership
development programming; and change management. Ritu
acts as a career and leadership coach, and has now coached
hundreds of professionals. Ritu is also instructing in the Executive
Programs at the Rotman School of Management, University of
Toronto and is regular contributor in the media, particularly on
CBC Radio’s Metro Morning.
Prior to starting her consulting firm, Ritu spent 10 years in the
Canadian legal profession, first practising litigation and then
serving on the senior management team of a preeminent
Canadian law firm for 7 years, focusing on talent management for
law students and lawyers.
André Bourbonnais
Senior Vice President, Private Investments, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Panelist, Global Impact: Power of Large Funds, Sovereign and Public
Stephanie Ben-Ishai
Affiliated Scholar, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Moderator, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Restructuring: A Look at Nortel
Stephanie Ben-Ishai, a tenured Associate Professor at Osgoode
Hall Law School of York University, is an affiliated scholar with
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. As such, she has provided
advice to clients of the firm principally with respect to private law
issues arising in the context of transactions and litigation.
Prior to joining the faculty at Osgoode, Stephanie served as a
law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and practised in the
Insolvency Group at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. At Osgoode,
her principal areas of research and teaching have included
insolvency, contract, corporate governance and commercial law.
A frequent guest speaker, Stephanie has presented her work
around the world and served as a visiting professor at a number
of institutions, including the University of Toronto’s Faculty of
Law, Monash University Law School (Melbourne, Australia),
André is responsible for leading private equity and infrastructure
investments in the CPP portfolio.
the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (Gainesville,
Florida) and the Faculty of Law, University of Otago (Dunedin,
New Zealand). She has received the American Bankruptcy
Institute Medal of Excellence, SSHRC and Fulbright fellowships.
Stephanie has served as an INSOL International Scholar and was
awarded the Osgoode Hall Law School Research Fellowship for
her insolvency research.
Stephanie has been active in commercial law reform and has
been consulted by governments and self-regulatory organizations
on insolvency and commercial law matters. She has also acted as
an expert on Ontario law.
She completed her LLB at Osgoode Hall Law School and her LLM
at Harvard University.
Philippe Bergevin
Senior Analyst, C.D. Howe Institute
Panelist, Panelist, Global Impact: Power of Large Funds, Sovereign and Public
Philippe Bergevin is a Senior Policy Analyst at the C.D. Howe
Institute. His main areas of expertise include financial services,
monetary policy, macroeconomics and trade. Prior to joining
the Institute in 2009, Philippe worked as an Analyst for the
Parliamentary Information and Research Service of the Library of
Parliament. His duties included drafting the committee reports of
– and providing research support for – the House of Commons
Standing Committee on Finance and the Standing Senate
Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce of the Parliament
of Canada. He also provided analysis and policy advice to
individual parliamentarians and authored numerous research
papers. Philippe also held previous positions as an economist at
Investissement Quebec and at an investment company located
in Montreal. He holds an M.Sc. in Economics (2004) from HEC
Montreal and a B.A. in Economics (2002) from Glendon College.
Prior to joining the CPP Investment Board, André managed a
combined private equity portfolio in excess of $3 billion in the
financial services, telecommunications, media and entertainment
sectors for another Canadian pension plan manager.
Before entering private equity, André spent several years with a
leading telecommunications company mostly as a senior officer
responsible for corporate development and legal affairs.
André started his career as a corporate lawyer with a major
Canadian law firm and then as a consultant for a European merger
& acquisition consulting boutique. He earned his degrees from
the London School of Economics and the University of Ottawa.
He currently serves on the boards of IMS Health and Anglian
Water Group Limited.
Joy Casey
Founder, A Call to Action Canada
General Counsel, Aurora Holdings Co. Ltd.
Panelist, New Perspectives in Leadership
Joy Casey is a lawyer and the co-founder of A Call to Action
Canada, an initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the
legal profession. (www.acalltoactioncanada.com)
with a number of organizations. For several years she taught
Professional Responsibility and Legal Writing at the Law Society
of Upper Canada’s Bar Admission course.
Joy practises commercial litigation and employment law and
is also General Counsel to Aurora Holdings Co. Ltd. She
established her independent law firm in 1993 after seven years
as an associate in the Toronto litigation department of national law
firm Blake, Cassels and Graydon..
Joy has spoken on issues around diversity and inclusion and
discrimination in the legal profession on numerous occasions,
including as co-chair of A Call to Action Canada’s conferences
and as a speaker at conferences presented by the Minority
Corporate Counsel Association in the U.S. and the American
Bar Association.
Joy has been actively involved in issues concerning diversity and
inclusion, equity, discrimination and the status of women in the
legal profession and also advocates for clear language in legal
writing, addressing issues associated with functional illiteracy
and its effect on access to justice. She is a past Chair of several
committees of the Ontario Bar Association, including the Feminist
Legal Analysis Section, the Gender Issues Committee and the
Submissions Committees. She was also a member of the Legal
Education Committee and a founding member of the Joint Action
Committee which was established to co-ordinate equity initiatives
Joy obtained her LL.B. from the University of Toronto in 1984, after
completing a Master’s degree in Classics and working towards
a Ph.D., also at the University of Toronto. Prior to attending law
school, she taught Classics at the Universities of Waterloo and
Western Ontario.
Joy enjoys practising law in the heart of Toronto and living on a
farm with her horses, dogs, cat and husband Michael.
Biographies
Biographies
David Conklin
Barbara Hennick
Executive in Residence, Schulich School of Business
Counsel, Goodmans LLP
Co-Founder, The Hennick Centre for Business and Law
David Conklin serves as counsel at Goodmans. He is a commercial
litigator with a practice emphasis on corporate governance, class
action securities litigation and business valuation. David has
extensive experience appearing before all levels of civil courts
in Ontario litigating commercial disputes involving Securities
Act claims of misrepresentation, class actions, shareholder and
partnership disputes, oppression claims, breach of confidentiality
and other fiduciary duties, secured and unsecured creditor claims,
professional negligence claims and other related business law
issues. David represents shareholders, boards of directors and
entrepreneurs of both private and public companies.
litigator at a leading Toronto litigation boutique. David received his
LL.M from Columbia University in New York City focusing on capital
markets, corporate finance and governance issues. In 2006 he
passed the New York Bar and began practicing with one of the most
prominent securities and class action firms in the United States.
Throughout his career, David has taught a variety of legal
and business courses. For a number of years he taught trial
advocacy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and also
with Advocates’ Society. Since 2007, David has taught courses
on corporate governance and merger and acquisitions in the
Schulich School of Business MBA program.
Before joining Goodmans in 2007, David was a partner and senior
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Panelist, Enforcing the Ontario Securities Act Internationally: The Challenges of Foreign Issuers
Andrew practices in the areas of corporate finance and mergers
and acquisitions. He has worked for many years with a number
of Calgary- based energy companies on their US legal needs,
including: Canadian Natural Resources, Canadian Oil Sands,
Cenovus, EnCana, Husky, Nexen and Pengrowth. In addition,
Andrew has represented the US underwriters of Petro-Canada,
Suncor and Talisman in a number of capital markets transactions.
Outside of the energy area, Andrew works with a number of large
Barbara believes strongly in giving back to the community both
financially and by volunteering her time and professional skills.
Mrs. Hennick has held leadership roles in several charitable
and smaller Canadian companies, including Abitibi-Bowater,
Canadian Pacific Railway, Silver Wheaton, and Teck Resources.
Manager, Community & Social Content, Digital & Internet, Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
Panelist, Tech Talk: Leveraging the Power of Social Media
and growing online communities. Having migrated Harlequin’s
community 4 times, she has orchestrated and survived 6
upgrades and 4 platform changes with her hair and most of her
membership intact.
Tom Johnson
Andrew has been the U.S. legal representative to the Ontario
Securities Commission’s Securities Advisory Council and has been
an Adjunct Professor of Law at the McGill University Faculty of Law.
Co-Director, Joint JD/MBA Program
Presenter, Hennick Award of Excellence
Andrew received his undergraduate degree in 1985, his master’s
degree in 1987, and his law degree in 1991, all from the University
of Toronto. He attended law school at the University of Toronto
and McGill University. After law school, he was a clerk to Justice
Beverly McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Professor Tom Johnson is Co-Director of the Schulich and
Osgoode joint JD/MBA Program. A member of the Osgoode Hall
Law School faculty since 1987, he has served as Director of the
Osgoode Business Clinic and as Co-Director of Osgoode’s LL.M.
Program in Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
Professor Johnson’s areas of teaching include contracts, commercial
law (bankruptcy and insolvency, capital market regulation,
international business transactions and secured transactions),
Sharon S. Hamilton
organizations including the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of
Canada and United Jewish Appeal. She has also served as a
Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation, President of the
Mount Sinai Hospital’s Auxiliary, and Chair of the Audit Committee
of the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation. Barbara is currently the
President of The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation
and a member of the Advisory Board at the Hennick Centre for
Business and Law at York University.
Jayne Hoogenberk
Jayne Hoogenberk is an online community specialist, currently
serving as the community manager for Harlequin Enterprises
vibrant online Community at Harlequin.com. A seasoned Netizen,
she has been online and active in community management for
more than 15 years. She has a proven track record of creating
Andrew J. Foley
Andrew J. Foley is a partner in the Paul, Weiss Corporate
Department and a member of the Canadian Practice Group.
Mr. Foley works in the New York and the Toronto offices of Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
Barbara Hennick is a Chartered Accountant (CA ‘83) and also
has a Bachelor of Commerce degree (B Com ‘80) from the
University of Toronto. Mrs. Hennick worked for 10 years in both
public accounting and private industry before dedicating herself
to philanthropy.
international development and project finance. In 2009, he was the
recipient of the Osgoode Teaching Excellence Award.
As a consultant to multilateral development agencies and various
governments he has advised on financial sector reform, land tenure
reform, institutional strengthening and the rule of law in a number of
countries, including Afghanistan, Columbia, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica,
Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Turks and Caicos.
Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
Panelist, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Restructuring: A Look at Nortel
Sharon is a Partner in Ernst & Young LLP and a Senior Vice-President in
Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Services Practice specializing in
financial restructuring matters. In this role, Sharon has had significant
experience acting in several of the largest corporate restructurings
in Canada for various stakeholders including on behalf of debtors,
lenders and bondholders involving formal court proceedings and
informal consulting assignments related to debt and operational
restructuring. She has been a key player in the restructurings or
liquidations of Nortel Networks Corporation, Air Canada, Progressive
Moulded Products, Collins & Aikman, Hollinger Inc., Group Telecom
and the Canadian Red Cross Society amongst others.
Sharon is active in the insolvency community serving on the
boards of the Turnaround Management Association (Toronto
Chapter), the Canadian Insolvency Foundation and the Ontario
Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals. She
is a past co-chair of the Toronto Chapter of the International
Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation. Sharon
has an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration. She is a
Chartered Accountant, Chartered Insolvency and Restructuring
Professional and a licensed Trustee in Bankruptcy.
Biographies
Biographies
Monica Kowal
Chandler Lauzon
Senior Legal Counsel, Ontario Securities Commission
Manager, Business Development & Marketing, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Monica Kowal is General Counsel to the Ontario Securities
Commission. She leads the General Counsel’s Office, an in-house
legal, policy and risk management resource, providing senior legal
advice and assistance on strategic, operational and regulatory
issues to the Chair, Commission and staff. The Office also leads
policy projects, including legislative reform, and supports OSC
branches in the policy development process. Ms. Kowal was
recently seconded to the Canadian Securities Transition Office to
lead the federal derivatives regulatory initiative and co-lead the
Chandler Lauzon has nearly 15 years of varied experience
as a journalist, public relations counsel, lawyer and business
development professional. After stints with both CTV Ottawa
and NATIONAL Public Relations, Chandler joined Osler, Hoskin
and Harcourt as an associate in the Corporate Group in 2000.
Subsequent work with Corporatek Software Products, at the
time an 18-person software development company based
in Montreal, saw him wear many hats as in-house counsel,
marketing and client development director, and product
development consultant. More importantly, he re-discovered a
love for communications and business development.
development of a harmonised set of federal securities regulation
based on existing provincial securities regulation. Ms. Kowal is
a former Partner of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, where she
was a member of the Blakes securities group and information
technology group. Ms. Kowal was admitted to the Ontario Bar in
1991. She holds a B.A. from the University of Toronto, an LL.B.
from the University of Toronto and an LL.M. from the University of
Tübingen, Germany.
Robert Kozinets
Professor, Schulich School of Business
Moderator, Tech Talk: Leveraging the Power of Social Media
Robert Kozinets (BBA, MBA, Ph.D.) is a globally recognized
expert on social media, marketing research, and branding. An
anthropologist by training, he is Professor of Marketing at York
University’s Schulich School of Business, where he is also the
Chair of the Schulich Marketing Department. In the past, he was
full-time faculty at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of
Management and also at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s
Wisconsin School of Business.
His research interests look at the interface of technology, brands,
and consumer culture. He has extensive market research,
consulting, and speaking experience, working with companies
including Sony, Campbell Soup, TD Bank, HSBC, American
Express, Nissan, eBay, NetBase, Hyve, Valio, and Merck. He
partners selectively with highly skilled netnographic researchers
around the world, and enjoys a special collaboration with FolksNetnografica in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
His research also focuses on innovation, consumer activism, and
retailing. His opinions and work have been featured in global
media from the New York Times and Newsweek to the Discovery
Channel, the CBS National News, Brazil’s Bites Magazine,
Canada’s National Post, and Australia’s Boss Magazine.
The creator of the research method of netnography in 1995, during
his doctoral dissertation at Queen’s University, and a pioneering
theorist who has explored social media marketing from its inception,
his articles have been published in journals such as the Journal
of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of
Marketing Research, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography,
the Journal of Retailing, as well as in many other journals and in a
large number of book chapters. He has written ethnographies of
Star Trek and Star Wars fans, Burning Man participants, consumer
activists, coffee connoisseurs, technophiles, green consumers,
ESPN Zone and American Girl brand shoppers, social networking
site users, bloggers, and many, many other important consumer
groups and social-cultural marketing phenomena.
In 2007, Elsevier published his co-edited (with Bernard Cova
and Avi Shankar) volume about global collective consumption
patterns, Consumer Tribes. His 2010 book, Netnography: Doing
Ethnographic Research Online, is published by Sage, has been
translated into a Swedish edition, and is currently a research
methods best seller.
In 2007, he started the blog Brandthroposophy as an experiment
in mass communicating research results and research-driven
ideas with a wider global public. The blog caught on quickly.
Backed by Kozinets’ Twitter account (kozinets), and LinkedIn
profile, Brandthroposophy has captured a loyal global audience
of professional researchers, marketers, students, and others
interested in cutting edge ideas about social media, marketing,
and consumer culture thought. He feels sincere gratitude for and
affiliation with his worldwide audience, and sincerely thanks each
and every reader for their valuable attention.
In 2006, Chandler left legal practice to join the Marketing and
Business Development team at Stikeman Elliott, a leading
Canadian business law firm with over 500 lawyers and 8 offices
across Canada and around the world. In his role, he develops
and implements strategy related to many of the firm’s business
development efforts, including client proposals, individual client
development coaching, online marketing and positioning the firm’s
knowledge management resources and value-added services. He
was instrumental in the launch and marketing strategy for the firm’s
Chandler is a Director with the Urban Financial Services
Coalition, a non-profit organization of professionals in the
financial services, insurance, legal and accounting industries
dedicated to professional growth of younger members of the
profession and raising the economic status of marginalized
communities through financial literacy and opening doors for
community members to consider these professions as viable
career options.
Chandler graduated in 1995 from Carleton University with a
degree in Journalism and in 1999 from the University of Ottawa
with his LL.B.
Peter Macdonald
Co-Director, Joint JD/MBA Program
Professor, Schulich School of Business
Moderator, Evolving Regulatory Framework for Financial Institutions
Peter Macdonald is a lawyer, mediator and Co-Director of the
Joint MBA/JD Program at the Schulich School of Business,
York University.
Peter graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1985 and
was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1987. From 1987 to 1994,
Peter practiced corporate/commercial and securities law with
two downtown Toronto law firms and a large multinational
corporation in Montreal. Over the past fifteen years, Peter has
been engaged as an independent commercial mediator in a
broad range of corporate, banking, personal injury, employment
and insurance-related disputes.
In addition to his mediation practice, Peter teaches various
business law courses to B.B.A., MBA and Joint MBA/JD students at
the Schulich School of Business, where he has received numerous
teaching excellence awards. Peter has also been extensively
involved in designing and delivering intensive negotiation and
mediation training programs for judges, lawyers, public sector
agencies and other business professionals throughout Ontario.
Arlene Mack
Articling Student, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Recipient, Hennick Award of Excellence
Arlene Mack completed her Juris Doctor at Osgoode Hall Law
School and her Masters in Business Administration (specializing
in Finance and Strategic Management) at the Schulich School of
Business. While completing her studies, Arlene participated in
various global initiatives. She studied abroad in Italy, participated
in a Global Leadership Program in Israel, volunteered at the Human
blog network, beginning in 2008 with its Canadian Securities Law
blog, the first of its kind from a national law firm in Canada. It was
selected as a leading online marketing initiative by the US-based
Legal Marketing Association and was recently cited as Best
Practice Blog in the 2011 CLawbies awards. The firm has since
launched seven additional blogs to bolster its network. Chandler
is also recognized as an in-house resource advising lawyers on
their use of social media such as LinkedIn and Twitter.
Rights Law Network in India, and completed an exchange at Lyon
Law School in France. Previously, she obtained her Bachelor of
Commerce from the University of Calgary and worked for several
years in information technology as a business consultant and
project manager. Arlene works with the corporate groups at Osler
and is spending her first rotation in the New York office.
Biographies
Biographies
Mia Pearson
Graham Ross
Co-Founder, North Strategic
Head of Marketing, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
A combination of entrepreneurial spirit and timing led Mia Pearson
to co-found North Strategic, a communications agency built on
the belief that social needs to be integrated into everything you
do. A serial entrepreneur, Ms. Pearson left her position as regional
president for Fleishman HIllard Canada, and co-founder and
CEO of High Road Communications, to start a new company in
an effort to set the standard in social PR.
Ms. Pearson is known as an innovator, a creative strategist, and
a pioneer at fusing digital integration with traditional PR. Her
focus on pushing the boundaries of conventional public relations
and embracing new ideas and original thinking keeps her at
the forefront of the industry. She works with clients to strategize
and execute at the highest levels with some of the world’s most
exciting brands.
With nearly 20 years of integrated communications experience,
Ms. Pearson has led some of the industry’s best known launches
and worked with clients such as Microsoft, LG, TELUS, Pepsico
and Canadian Tire on some of their most complex issues and
creative opportunities.
Mr. Graham Ross is a Director at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
LLP with overall responsibility for the firm’s marketing and
business development strategy.
She sits on the advisory board for Marketing Magazine, the board
of Trans Canada Trail, and she is a member of CATA’s board of
directors. Ms. Pearson is known for building high-performance
teams, creating award-winning best-place-to-work environments,
and turning around companies. She writes a weekly column for
the Globe and Mail on social and earned media. In 2010, she
was a winner of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in the
corporate executive category.
Mr. Ross has experience across a number of sectors including
professional services, communications, venture capital and
technology. Prior to taking on the mandate to build Davies
Ms. Pearson is a regular speaker at industry events on the
importance of personal branding and she is passionate about
advancing the careers of women in business. A mother of two,
she is an avid snowboarder and she loves spending time at her
cottage on Georgian Bay.
Ian Russell is President and Chief Executive Officer of the
Investment Industry Association of Canada, a position he has
held since its inauguration in April 2006.
firms and capital markets in Canada. He is a frequent columnist in
industry publications and is a presenter and speaker on industry
issues and developments.
Prior to his appointment at IIAC, Mr. Russell headed the
Industry Relations and Representation group of the Investment
Dealers Association. In his 20-year tenure at the Association, he
participated actively in many industry committees and working
groups involved in regulatory and tax issues that effect securities
Mr. Russell has an honours degree in economics and business
from the University of Western Ontario, and a postgraduate
degree from the London School of Economics. He has completed
the Partners, Directors and Officers Qualification Examination and
is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute.
Poonam Puri
Associate Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School
Moderator, Enforcing the Ontario Securities Act Internationally: The Challenges of Foreign Issuers
Professor Poonam Puri is one of Canada’s most respected
scholars and commentators on issues of corporate governance,
corporate law, and securities law.
She is Associate Dean, Research, Graduate Studies, and
Institutional Relations at Osgoode Hall Law School, York
University. She is also Co-Director of the Hennick Centre for
Business and Law, a joint initiative of Osgoode Hall Law School
and the Schulich School of Business at York University, and Head
of Research and Policy at the Capital Markets Institute, Rotman
School of Business, University of Toronto.
Appointed to York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997
at the age of 25, and a recipient of its Teaching Excellence Award
in 1999 and 2009, Puri is a prolific scholar who has co-authored/
edited three books and written numerous articles or reports. She
has an LL.B. degree from the University of Toronto, where she
was the Silver Medalist in her 1995 graduating law class, and she
holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Harvard Law School.
Her work is academically rigorous as well as firmly grounded in the
real-time of policy-making. It is for this reason that governments
and regulators in Canada and internationally, including Industry
Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the Canadian
Senate, the Wise Persons Committee on Securities Regulation
and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, have
sought her expertise. She has also advised public and private
company boards of directors and senior management.
In 2008, she was appointed as one of two research directors of
the Canadian Ministry of Finance’s Expert Panel on Securities
Regulation, which has led to the proposed national securities
regulator, currently before the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2005,
she was co-research director of the Task Force to Modernize
Securities Legislation and also served as a member of the
OSC’s Investor Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2007. She was
President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association from
2006-2008.
Professor Puri is a 2005 recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under
40™ award, the 2008 recipient of the Indo-Canada Chamber of
Commerce Female Professional of the Year Award, and the 2010
recipient of the Professional Excellence Award from the Canadian
Association of South Asian Lawyers and the Lawyer of the Year from
the South Asian Bar Association. In 2011 she was named one of
Women Executive Network’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.
In 2008, she was also appointed to the board of directors of
the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. She is currently chair of
its Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. Puri also
sits on the Board of Governors of Mount Sinai Hospital and is a
member of the National Advisory Council for Statistics Canada.
marketing and business development team, he worked at
PricewaterhouseCoopers leading their national sales support
team. Graham has an MBA from Wilfred Laurier University and
has completed courses at the Rotman School of Business on
Leading Strategic Change and at the Ivey School of Business
on Strategic Marketing. He is also on the Board of Directors for
Starlight Children’s Foundation Canada.
Ian C. W. Russell
President & CEO, Investment Industry Association of Canada
Panelist, Evolving Regulatory Framework for Financial Institutions
Robin Schwill
Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Robin Schwill is a partner in the Financial Restructuring &
Insolvency practice at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. He
provides advice regarding corporate turnarounds, work-outs and
restructurings; distressed asset sales and acquisitions; debtorin-possession financings; secured and unsecured creditor rights
enforcement; and all facets of Companies’ Creditors Arrangement
Act and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act proceedings. He has also
been involved with a number of private merger and acquisition
transactions and a variety of secured lending matters. Robin has
gained a broad and deep perspective in such engagements by
having represented players from every angle, including: debtors,
boards, purchasers, secured creditors, unsecured creditors,
private and courtappointed receivers, interim receivers, monitors
and trustees in bankruptcy.
Robin has been recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert
Directory as a Repeatedly Recommended leading lawyer in the
area of insolvency. He has also been cited in Chambers Global’s
Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Leaders
in their Field in Restructuring/Insolvency.
transparency issues, having been an award-winning lecturer on
this topic for over 15 years in the MBA program at York University’s
Schulich School of Business. He currently continues to lecture
on this topic for the Schulich Executive Education Centre at York
University. Robin has lectured on bankruptcy, insolvency and
secured transaction matters of various Professional Development
Programs of Osgoode Hall Law School. Robin has also been a
lecturer in finance and commercial law courses for the Credit
Institute of Canada.
Robin is often invited as a guest speaker on corporate restructuring
matters at both the Schulich School of Business and Osgoode
Hall Law School at York University. Robin has made a number of
presentations on bankruptcy, insolvency and secured transaction
matters for various programs sponsored by the Canadian and
Ontario Bar Associations. Robin has been interviewed numerous
times on financial accounting issues for ROB/TV (now BNN),
CanadaAM, The Globe & Mail and Radio Canada International.
Robin completed his BBA and MBA from the Schulich School of
Business and his LLB at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Robin is an expert on financial statement disclosure and
Biographies
Biographies
Edward Sellers
Edward J. Waitzer
Partner, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School & Schulich School of Business
Senior Partner, Stikeman Elliot LLP
Moderator, Global Impact: Power of Large Funds, Sovereign and Public
Edward is Chair of the Insolvency & Restructuring Practice Group
at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. He provides mission-critical
advice to our clients on commercial matters with an emphasis on
restructurings and related acquisitions, divestitures, financings
and governance. Involved in complex cross-border cases for over
20 years, he has served as counsel to: major corporations; senior
lending syndicates and agents; equity sponsors and purchasers;
and governments and crown agencies. He completed his BA
at the University of Winnipeg and his LLB at the University of
Manitoba. Edward is also certified as a director by the Institute of
Corporate Directors.
Edward has published widely and presented frequently on
commercial matters. He is a founding member of the Editorial
Board of the Annual Review of Insolvency Law, serves as a
Director of the Insolvency Institute of Canada and has been an
Instructor/Lecturer at various institutions. He currently serves on
the board of the Trillium Health Centre and St. Patrick’s Benevolent
Society of Toronto.
Tom Smee
Mr. Smee received an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School
in 1985 and was called to the Bar in 1987. Tom joined RBC in
2003, having been a partner in Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
LLP in Toronto. During his years in private practice, he focused
on regulatory matters relating to the financial services industry,
corporate finance (equity, debt, lending) and public and private
M&A. He also taught Securities Regulation at the University
of Western Ontario Law School for 12 years and, in 2003, at
Vice President, Policy and Operations, Canadian Bankers Association
Osgoode Hall Law School. He has spoken at and prepared
papers for conferences on managing a legal function in a large,
complex organization, as well as issues relating to securities law
and regulation. Mr. Smee is a past Chair of the Ontario Securities
Commission’s Securities Advisory Committee.
Tom has a Bachelor of Music degree (performance major) from
the University of Calgary (1979) and was a professional orchestral
trombonist in the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra from 1977
to 1982 prior to commencing his legal career. He studied and
performed at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers and was
a member of the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra (1977,
Korea and Japan). He now pursues his interest in music by
playing the cello.
Tom is an active supporter of the United Way. He has led RBC’s
Leadership Campaign and is a member of the United Way’s Major
Individual Giver Cabinet.
Danielle Traub
Associate, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
President, Young Women in Law
Danielle Traub is a corporate lawyer in the Toronto office of
McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Ms. Traub received her BA in Philosophy
(with Distinction) from the University of Western Ontario and
obtained her joint LL.B./M.B.A. (with Distinction) from the
University of Western Ontario and the Richard Ivey School of
Business. Ms. Traub is a member of the Law Society of Upper
Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Ontario Bar
Association. She was called to the Ontario bar in 2009.
Commission (and of the Technical Committee of the In-ternational
Organization of Securities Commissions) and (until 1981) as VicePresident of The Toronto Stock Exchange. He has written and
spoken extensively on a variety of legal and public policy issues
and serves or has served as director of a number of corporations,
foundations, community organizations, editorial boards and
advisory groups. Earned his LL.B. (1976) and LL.M. (1981) from
the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Called to the Ontario
(1978) and the New York (1985) Bars.
Marion G. Wrobel
VP & Deputy General Counsel, Royal Bank of Canada
Tom Smee is Senior Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel
of Royal Bank of Canada. He is Head of Law for RBC’s Global
Wealth Management businesses and is a member of the RBC
Wealth Management Operating Committee. As RBC’s senior
Canadian securities lawyer, he also supports RBC at an enterprise
level, and other RBC businesses, on critical securities law and
regulatory issues and leads Wealth Management’s advocacy on
certain public policy and regulatory initiatives.
Former Falconbridge Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law
School, Mr. Waitzer currently holds the Jarislowsky Dimma
Mooney Chair in Corporate Governance and is Director of the
Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode Hall and the
Schulich School of Business at York University. He was Chair of
Stikeman Elliott from 1999 to 2006 and remains a senior partner
whose practice focuses on complex business transactions.
He also advises on a range of public policy and governance
matters. He served (1993-1996) as Chair of the Ontario Securities
securities regulation and mergers and acquisitions. She has
acted on several public acquisitions, including the acquisition of
MKS Inc. by Parametric Technology Corporation and the sale of
Genuity Capital Markets to Canaccord Financial Inc.
In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Traub is a founder
and the President of Young Women in Law, a not-for-profit
organization established to promote and support young
women in the legal profession.
Ms. Traub’s experience spans the areas of corporate finance,
Marion G. Wrobel is Vice-President, Policy and Operations at
the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA). Based in Toronto,
he is responsible for supporting the banking industry’s policy
development and advocacy activities related to international
regulatory initiatives, federal financial services legislation and
regulation, international trade policy and a range of regulatory
issues at the provincial level. Mr. Wrobel is also responsible
for the CBA’s statistical and economic research activities. In
addition, he is a past member of the Board of Directors of the
Toronto Financial Services Alliance and currently co-chair of its
Research and Policy Committee.
Mr. Wrobel joined the CBA in 2001 and most recently held the
position of Director, Market and Regulatory Developments.
Prior to joining the CBA, Mr. Wrobel had a long career in the
Parliament of Canada with the Parliamentary Research Branch of
the Library of Parliament, where he held a series of successively
senior positions. In that capacity, he provided research and
advisory services to Members of Parliament and Parliamentary
Committees and was in charge of research for the House of
Commons Standing Committee on Finance.
Mr. Wrobel earned Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in
economics from the University of Ottawa.
Ava G. Yaskiel
Partner, Norton Rose Canada LLP
Ava Yaskiel is a partner in the global law firm Norton Rose where
she practices corporate and securities law in the Toronto office. Ms.
Yaskiel’s practice encompasses both domestic and cross-border
mandates. Her practice is both transactional and advisory in nature
and focuses on mergers and acquisitions, structured transactions,
corporate governance, finance and strategic advice for a variety of
parties including issuers, investment banks, shareholders and funds.
Ms. Yaskiel is a member of the Global Supervisory Board of
the Norton Rose Group. She previously held the position of comanaging partner of Ogilvy Renault’s Toronto Office and was a
member of Ogilvy Renault’s National Executive Committee.
Prior to joining Ogilvy Renault LLP (the predecessor to the Canadian
office of Norton Rose), Ms. Yaskiel was with the Ontario Securities
Commission for a number of years, holding a variety of legal and
leadership positions. At the OSC, her primary focus was on mergers
and acquisitions, related party transactions and related policy issues.
Ms. Yaskiel has authored numerous securities law related articles and
publications and she is a frequent speaker at conferences as well as
a regular media commentator on securities related issues. In 2011 she
was honoured with the International Law Office Client Choice Award
in recognition of her outstanding client service and was named one of
Women Executive Network’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.
Ms. Yaskiel is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian
Breast Cancer Foundation (Ontario Region). She also sits on
the Corporate Advisory Committee to the Art Gallery of Ontario
and was a founding member of the board of directors of Toronto
Jewish Chamber of Commerce.
Ms. Yaskiel has a LL.B from Osgoode Law School and an LL.M
from Cambridge University. She also has her ICD.D designation
from The Institute of Corporate Directors.
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