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Part 1 - Recent Developments in Public M&A 

Our expert panel, featuring Bill Ainley, Bill Gula, Vincent Mercier and Gerald Shepherd, discuss the following hot topics in the public M&A arena:

• Cross-border activity: Canadian companies as global consolidators and foreign acquirers of Canadian companies
• Protecting the deal: key contract clauses, break fees and fiduciary out clauses
• Poison pills: recent significant rights plan decisions and the OSC views
• Shareholder activism: role of hedge funds and going private transactions
• Public vs. private auctions: pros and cons, quiet auction leaking and shareholder involvement
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Part 2 - Recent Developments in Private M&A 

Our expert panel, featuring Richard Cherney, Steve Levin, Peter Mendell and Cameron Rusaw, discuss the following issues reshaping the private M&A market:

• Private equity: changing the face of the market
• The auction process: unique differences of private deals
• Vendor due diligence: What is it? Why do it?
• Representation and warranty insurance: How to explain its increase. What are the advantages?
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