{"id":8177,"date":"2018-05-01T15:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/?p=1583402"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:05:43","slug":"here-are-the-finalists-for-the-2018-canadian-general-counsel-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/01\/here-are-the-finalists-for-the-2018-canadian-general-counsel-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the finalists for the 2018 Canadian General Counsel Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monique Mercier, executive vice-president of corporate affairs and chief legal officer at Telus Corp., will receive the BLG Stephen Sigurdson Lifetime Achievement award at this year&#8217;s Canadian General Counsel Awards ceremony next month.<\/p>\n<p>The awards, founded by The National Post and ZSA Legal Recruitment, will be presented June 11 in Toronto at the Fairmont Royal York hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Mercier is perhaps best known for successfully out-manoeuvring hedge fund Mason Capital&#8217;s aggressive attempts to prevent the telecom giant&#8217;s move to a single-class share structure. She was awarded a CGCA for litigation in 2013 for the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Some 40 other finalists are in the running for one of the eight CGCAs.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/legal-post\/drew-hasselback-bces-mirko-bibic-takes-stage-as-2017-canadian-general-counsel-of-the-year\">BCE\u2019s Mirko Bibic takes stage as 2017 Canadian General Counsel of the Year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/legal-post\/transcanadas-kristine-delkus-named-canadian-general-counsel-of-the-year\">TransCanada\u2019s Kristine Delkus named Canadian General Counsel of the Year<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General Counsel of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Desjardins, senior vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary, Bombardier Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Fredeen, general counsel, secretary to the board, Deloitte LLP.<\/p>\n<p>Kikelomo Lawal, chief legal officer, corporate secretary, Interac Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Martin, executive vice-president, general counsel, corporate secretary, Metrolinx.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Schuster, chief legal officer, senior vice-president, corporate secretary, Avigilon Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Tindale, chief legal officer, Algonquin Power &amp; Utilities Corp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Business Achievement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ramsey Ali, managing director and partner, Slate Asset Management; general counsel, Slate Retail REIT and Slate Office REIT, Slate Asset Management.<\/p>\n<p>Bert Clark, president and CEO, Investment Management Corp. of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Kujath, president, chief operating officer, co-founder, 51st Parallel Inc.; vice-president, legal, Target Capital d.b.a. CBi2.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Putnam, president, real estate and chief corporate development officer, Hudson&#8217;s Bay Co.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Shin, director, listed issuer services, Toronto Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Osler Purdy Crawford Deal Making<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunny Sodhi, chief strategy and corporate affairs officer, Meridian Credit Union.<\/p>\n<p>Sacha Haque, general counsel and secretary, Portag3 Ventures and Sagard Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>In Ha Jang, managing director and associate general counsel, Investments Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan Board.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Mazin, managing partner and general counsel, Brookfield Renewable Brookfield Asset Management.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Rosenblatt, managing director and associate general counsel, Investments Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan Board.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Shaer, chief legal officer, Canopy Growth Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Szainwald, managing partner, Brookfield Asset Management.<\/p>\n<p>Domenic Crolla, general counsel, CMPA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Litigation Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jody Evely, regional counsel &amp; director of litigation (Canada), Canadian National Railway Company.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey Faint, legal counsel, Eastern Canadian operations, PCL Constructors Canada Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Millard, legal director, Uber Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Heidi Rubin, senior counsel, litigation, Bell Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Wynne, general counsel, litigation, Canadian Pacific Railway Company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mid-market Excellence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carmen Diges, general counsel, McEwen Mining Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Einav, senior managing director, general counsel and corporate secretary, Sprott Inc., Sprott Resource Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>Loreto Grimaldi, senior vice-president, general counsel, ECN Capital.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Nguyen, general counsel, corporate secretary and privacy officer, Resolver Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Josiane Turcotte, senior legal counsel, Novacap.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Whitburn, vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary, Points International Ltd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental, Social and Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John D. Coyne, vice-president, legal and external affairs and general counsel, Unilever Canada Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Ginette Depelteau, senior vice-president, compliance and responsible investment, Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec<\/p>\n<p>Doris Stamml, chief legal counsel, Ernst &amp; Young<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow&#8217;s Leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shelley Babin, vice-president, law and general counsel, Ontario Power Generation Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Nils Engelstad, vice-president, general counsel, Alamos Gold Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Galbraith, director and legal counsel, investments, Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan Board.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Holden, vice-president, general counsel and secretary, Nestl\u00e9 Canada Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Kaleb Honsberger, general counsel, Roots Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Toppings, vice-president, legal and corporate governance, Sinai Health System.<\/p>\n<p><em>Financial Post<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monique Mercier, executive vice-president of corporate affairs and chief legal officer at Telus, will receive the BLG Stephen Sigurdson Lifetime Achievement award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}