Joe Mooney

Norton Rose Fulbright

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“I had a picture of a house, and the house was Premiere Mortgage Centre”

Kerri Reed, Premiere Mortgage Centre

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Andrea is an Employee Learning and Development professional with two years of experience who is passionate about using her skills to implement innovative and pioneering HR initiatives to drive a culture of professional development. Her strengths lay in people and relationship management, critical thinking and delivering behaviour change projects with an innovative twist. She has been responsible for introducing compliance learning tailored to our significantly diverse employee base of over 12,000 and using her skills to create engagement for and roll out of 'Altogether Autism & Neurodiversity awareness programme at The Warehouse Group. She has shifted the way our team engages with learning, cultivating a continuous learning and development culture specific to their journey.

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J.R. Laffin is widely recognized as a leading dealmaker and talented public M&A lawyer. He advises on many of Canada’s most sophisticated and complex M&A transactions, offering strategic solutions and innovative approaches. J.R. was honoured in 2021 as a Top 10 M&A lawyer in Canada by a global news outlet for his leadership in high-profile transactions. He is known for his legal expertise, professionalism and collaborative approach helping clients complete industry-altering transactions. In addition to his distinguished legal presence, J.R. provides leadership as public M&A practice group head and is an active mentor to junior lawyers providing advice and support.

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$7.15 billion bond offering (the largest in Canadian history) that refinanced the initial bank financing. Joe is also one of only a few lawyers in Western Canada with extensive experience on high-yield debt mandates. In addition to debt capital markets transactions, Joe regularly advises on large and complex bank financings, including transactions with multijurisdictional security packages and complex intercreditor arrangements. Consistently making time to mentor the next generation, Joe also shares his skills in service to the broader community. As an invested and active ally of the LGBTQ+ community, Joe volunteers pro bono services to support local Trans ID Clinics, helping individuals navigate the often-complex process of ensuring ID documents match identities.

Joe Mooney drives transformational bank financings and debt capital markets transactions while creating opportunities for others to grow. He is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, fuelling organizational success in Calgary and beyond. His outstanding track record includes advising on some of the largest financing transactions in Canada. A core member of the team that acted on the debt financing of the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline, Joe was deeply involved in the initial syndicated bank financing of the project. Joe also acted on the

Maria Sagan, partner in McMillan LLP’s Toronto office, is a highly respected financial services lawyer with over 15 years of experience representing both borrowers and lenders. Her expertise is in domestic, cross-border and multijurisdictional financings, and she routinely acts for major Canadian banks, foreign banks, private equity firms, and domestic and international corporations. Drawing on broad experience, Maria advises on secured and unsecured lending, asset-based lending, acquisition finance, derivative and structured transactions, securitizations, syndicated lending, and debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing. She has been recognized by the Secured Finance Network’s Top 40 under 40 for her contributions to the secured finance industry, and by the Secured Finance Network’s The Secured Lender as a leading woman in the commercial finance industry for her excellence and dedication to client service.