• Acted for Fronteer Gold Inc. in connection with its $2.3 billion acquisition by Newmont Mining Corporation• Led the $40 million initial public offering of Potash Ridge Corporation, acting as the point person between company executives, the underwriters, underwriters’ counsel, the TSX, the OSC and the transfer agent, and successfully launched at the price target set by the CEO• Closed $5.65 billion in aggregate public offerings of debt securities for Rogers Communications Inc.• Acted for GrowthWorks Ltd. in its proxy battle and successful opposition to a plan of arrangement put forward by VenGrowth Funds in proceedings before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice• Worked closely with the business development group of Xstrata Nickel to negotiate and draft a co-operation agreement with KGHM International Ltd. to lease out the infrastructure of a non-operating mine in Sudbury and helped Xstrata Nickel capture a $10 million upfront payment and ongoing rents of $2 million per year• Acted for Aurora Oil & Gas Ltd. in a A$120 million underwritten offering of special warrants and ordinary shares and its listing on the TSX• Completed several private M&A transactions for private equity funds such as Ironbridge Equity Partners Ltd., Signal Hill Equity Partners and Fiera Capital

• Developed an absolute return currency trading system by replicating and combining 6 hedge fund currency trading strategies that generated 97% returns when back tested over 8 years.• Researched the effect of Federal Reserve policies on government bond spreads.• Forecast future market conditions for the semi-annual scenario analysis.

• Wrote reports for the board of directors on collateralized debt obligations, emerging markets, secular investment strategies and the subprime crisis.• Researched and wrote reports on volatility swaps, sovereign wealth funds and Federal Reserve policy cycles.• Conducted situational analysis on Bloomberg for stock index futures hedging purposes.