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Presenter Biographical Summaries (In Alphabetical Order)
October 4, 2018
CHOOSING THE Right Business Structure
Anna Balinsky focuses her practice on corporate and commercial law with an emphasis onadvising companies with respect to day to day operations, mergers and acquisitions andstructuring. Anna’s practice includes advising on real estate joint ventures, limited partnershipsand private equity structuring and investment. She provides advice to regulated professionals,including accountants, architects, engineers and dentists on regulatory compliance, particularly inrelation to structuring and mergers and acquisitions. Anna also advises numerous internationalclients on their entry into Canada.
Anna has extensive experience advising on the organization of businesses and the day to daylegal concerns facing companies, drafting acquisitions, shareholder, partnership and joint-ventureagreements, as well as a broad range of general commercial agreements (including supplyagreements, distribution agreements and consulting agreements).
Biography
Partner | Toronto
416.595.2992
Anna Balinsky RELATED SERVICESCorporate
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity
Shareholder Disputes
RELATED FOCUS AREASRegulated Professionals
Sunita D. Doobay practises tax law in Canada and the U.S. She is admitted in Ontario and
to the New York State Bar, to the U.S. Tax Court and to the U.S. Court of International Trade. She
also holds the trusts and estates tax practitioner designation, and a Foreign Legal Consultant Permit
by the Law Society to provide U.S. tax advice in Ontario.
Sunita completed her law studies at Queen’s University, and her LLM at the law faculty at NYU.
She is an adjunct professor at Queen’s University Law School, teaching the “Taxation of Trusts
and Estates” seminar. Sunita co-authored, The 2014 Annotated Ontario Partnerships Act,
published by Carswell Thomson Reuters.
As an awarded tax lawyer with over 20 years of experience in practising U.S. and Canadian tax
law, Sunita is uniquely qualified to advise clients investing in the U.S. and for Americans investing
in Canada. For her work, Sunita has been awarded the IBFD 2015 Best in Canada Award for Cross-
Border Taxation and Succession Planning, has been recommended for the Global Law Experts
award, and was awarded the Martindale-Hubbell Client Distinction Award. Her practice also
includes advising entertainers on co-production agreements and utilizing the availability of the
film tax credit.
In Toronto, Sunita chairs the Net Investment Income Tax committee for the American Chamber
of Commerce (AMCHAM). She is a member of the Canadian Society of Trusts and Estate
Practitioners (“STEP”) and sits on the steering group for the International M&A Joint Venture
Committee, the Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee, the International Tax Committee of the
American Bar Association Section of International Law, and is a Fellow of the American Bar
Foundation. Sunita frequently contributes to the Canadian Tax Highlights – a CTF Newsletter, and
to the CALU-infoEXCHANGE Newsletter. Sunita also contributes to American Bar Association
International Law Newsletter.
As an active member of the ABA, IFA and the CTF Sunita speaks and publishes frequently on
cross border taxation and estate planning issues. With a love for international law, she occasionally
judges law school moot competitions in Toronto.
Victor Liu, Goodmans LLP
Phone: (416) 597-5141 • Fax: (416) 979-1234 • E-mail: [email protected]
Victor is a partner and heads the cannabis practice group at Goodmans. His practice focuses on public and private M&A as well as corporate finance. Victor’s practice also includes an emphasis on counselling early-stage private enterprises (in diverse industries including pharmaceutical, renewable energy, interactive media, health care and emerging technology) on their growth financings, shareholders agreements and governance, as well as strategic initiatives. As a member of the firm’s emerging business group, Victor volunteers as a “legal counsel in residence” at the DMZ at Ryerson University, one of Canada’s largest business incubators for emerging tech start-ups, providing legal advice and mentorship to some of Canada’s most promising start-ups. He has provided expert legal advice and service to enterprising pioneers in the cannabis industry since 2013, bringing clarity to the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape and providing strategic guidance to their growth and success. Among others, Victor represented Mettrum Health, from its formation in 2013, through its growth to become one of the largest and most successful licensed producers of medical cannabis in Canada, culminating in its sale in early 2017 for approximately $430 million.
Jesslyn G. Maurier
Partner, Bennett Jones LLP
Jesslyn Maurier advises clients in a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, and acts for
companies and investors in private equity and venture capital transactions and other debt and
equity financings, private mergers and acquisitions, share and asset purchase and sale transactions
and corporate reorganizations. A significant focus of Jesslyn's practice involves providing advice
on corporate development, shareholder arrangements, corporate governance and director
protection matters (including directors' duties, indemnities and D&O insurance). She has acted for
independent committees of directors in connection with merger and acquisition transactions and
other strategic matters. Jesslyn's practice includes representation of start-up, growth and mature
companies and many of her clients are new economy companies in the technology, media and
entertainment fields. She contributed as an author of several chapters of Directors' Duties in
Canada, 6th Edition, published in 2016.
Sundeep Sandhu joined the law firm of Blaney McMurtry LLP in September 2007,
after her Call to the Bar. She was the fist Sikh lawyer at the firm and became the first South
Asian female Partner in the firm in February 2013.
Sundeep’s transactional practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, financing, and
corporate reorganizations. She also negotiates commercial agreements. She advises a
wide-range of public and private clients, from small entrepreneurial companies to large
institutions across various industries, including: aerospace, software, advertising,
manufacturing, and consulting.
Lexpert Magazine chose Sundeep as one of their 2015 “Rising Stars”, recognizing her
talent and dedication to her clients, her firm, and the causes she is passionate about.
Sundeep acquired a Specialized Honours in Public Policy and Administration from York
University. She earned her LL.B from the University of Windsor where she was recognized
for outstanding academic achievement by being the recipient of the McTague Law Firm
LLP Award for excellence in Business Law.
Sundeep is currently the President of the South Asian Bar Association of North America
and was the Vice President of the South Asian Bar Association of Toronto which she joined
in 2010 to support and encourage her South Asian peers through the association’s
programs, events and mentorship program. She also spends a considerable amount of her
time addressing equity and diversity issues as Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion
Committee at Blaney’s and is currently acting as the firm’s representative in the Law Firms
for Diversity and Inclusion Network.
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Cynthia Sargeant is Of Counsel at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP. Her practice focuses
on mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and general corporate and commercial matters. She has acted for public and private companies and underwriters in connection with public offerings, private placement financings, purchase and sale transactions (including by way of a take-over bid and plan of arrangement) and corporate reorganizations. Ms. Sargeant provides ongoing advice to public issuers with respect to corporate governance requirements, continuous disclosure obligations and stock exchange matters.
Prior to joining Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Ms. Sargeant was in-house counsel at The Toronto-Dominion Bank and was previously a partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
Vitaly Timokhov practises taxation law in Toronto. Vitaly is admitted to practice law in
Ontario, Alberta, and New York State, and specializes in cross-border and corporate taxation.
Having studied law at Queen’s University, Vitaly graduated as a published tax author and a
recipient of Canada’s National Tax Award. He continued to study taxation as a Gerald Wallace
Scholar at New York University School of Law’s LLM Program in Taxation. During that time, he
was appointed to serve as an Editor of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.
Since his studies and practising tax law, Vitaly has also taught international taxation as an adjunct
professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. As the author of over twenty peer-reviewed publications,
Vitaly is also the principal author of one of the leading treatises on international taxation in Canada
and the U.S., The Tax Advisor’s Guide to the Canada – U.S. Tax Treaty, published by Carswell
Thomson Reuters.
His principal areas of practice focus exclusively on Canadian federal income taxation and tax
planning, with an emphasis on international and domestic reorganizations, M&A and personal tax
planning for Canadian and foreign-based corporations and individuals.
Vitaly has worked on the structuring and tax implications of domestic and international
corporate/commercial transactions including inbound and outbound (foreign affiliate)
acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, financings and reorganizations. Moreover, the taxation of
financial instruments and tax-effective domestic and cross-border financing (both debt and equity,
including hybrid and stapled instruments), international tax planning for non-residents carrying on
business in Canada and for Canadian and the U.S. corporations carrying on business
internationally, the taxation of U.S. citizens and U.S. green card holders in Canada, the taxation of
trusts and estates, including non-resident trusts with Canadian beneficiaries and Canadian trusts,
mutual funds and estates with foreign beneficiaries, Canadian tax implications arising on
immigration to or emigration from Canada (including long- and short-term executive and
employee relocations and immigration trusts (including post-2014 windups and trust conversion).
Vitaly also represents taxpayers before the CRA, including audit support, appeals and obtaining
advance tax rulings and technical interpretations.
Dennis J. Tobin
Direct 416.596.2897 Fax 416.593.2764
Dennis Tobin is a partner at Blaney McMurtry LLP in Toronto. He combines a unique legal practice in the
corporate/commercial law and commercial leasing areas.
Many local and international retailers have chosen Dennis to act for them. See Dennis’ profile and read
some of his articles at https://www.blaney.com/lawyers/dennis-tobin .