In Toronto, Donald Gray has
joined Blake, Cassels & Graydon
LLP’s aerospace group on as a
partner. Gray advises a number of
aircraft lessors, financiers, manufacturers, and domestic and international airlines on aircraft finance
and aviation commercial and regulatory law matters. David Preger
and Mark Shapiro have joined
Dickinson Wright LLP, which is
headquartered in Detroit, as partners in its Toronto office. Both
came from Toronto’s Solomon,
Grosberg LLP for Dickson Wright.
Preger specializes in complex
court-supervised real estate workouts. Shapiro specializes in civil
and commercial litigation.
Ian Mondrow has joined Gowling
Lafleur Henderson LLP as a partner
specializing in energy, infrastructure and mining. He was previously with Macleod Dixon LLP.
In Calgary, Evelyn Ackah has
launched her own firm. Ackah
Business Immigration Law will
focus on Canadian and U.S. business immigration law.
In Ottawa, Christopher
Ginther has joined Gowlings as
counsel specializing in business
law. He was previously senior
vice-president, legal, general
counsel and corporate secretary
with Ontario Lottery and Gaming
Corp. (OLG).
In London, David Shasha has
joined Gowlings as a partner specializing in energy, mining and
infrastructure. He was previously
with international law firm
Simmons & Simmons LLP.
LAWYER OF THE WEEK
Name:
Robert Hansen
Law school:
Osgoode Hall Law
School of York University
Called to the Bar:
1999
Career highlights:
1999 Articled and practised
at the now-defunct Toronto firm
Morris/Rose/Ledgett LLP
1999 Joined McCarthy
Tétrault LLP
2008 Advised The Bank of
Nova Scotia in connection with
its acquisition of an interest in CI
Financial Corp. from Sun Life
Financial Inc.
Robert Hansen and Dean Novak with a Mazda Miata MX- 5
2010 Advised BCE Inc. in
connection with its acquisition
of CTVglobemedia Inc.
MELISSA DUNNE
2010 Raced in Targa
Newfoundland, a week-long
2,200-kilometre rally, in
support of Pediatric Oncology
Group of Ontario and Young
Adult Cancer Canada
APPOINTMENTS
In Toronto, Iain Benson, senior
associate counsel in the litigation
practice group at Miller Thomson
LLP, has been appointed to the
inaugural board of directors of the
Global Centre for Pluralism. The
centre is Canada’s new international research and education
centre dedicated to the study and
practice of tolerance, openness
and diversity. The centre is an
international initiative of the Aga
Khan and was established jointly
with the government of Canada.
Robert Hansen has always been
a self-proclaimed “gearhead.”
This year Hansen and his old
law school buddy Dean Novack
decided to put their mutual inter-
est in cars to good use.
The legal eagles pit themselves
against two of their banker friends
in an epic car rally all in support of
cancer charities.
“There’s already a built in rivalry
between lawyers and bankers... we
thought it would be a good fit,” said
Hansen in an interview with The
Lawyers Weekly.
So this fall the high-powered
foursome created Hammerhead
Motorsports and entered two
Mazda Miata MX-5s in Targa
Newfoundland. Every September
drivers traverse a 2,200-kilometre
course in picturesque eastern and
central Newfoundland.
Hansen, a partner in McCarthy
Tétrault’s business law group and
Novak, assistant general counsel at
Siemens Canada, were Hammer-
head I. Brent Layton, vice-
president, investment banking at
Canaccord Genuity Corp. and
Gabriel Riff, director of business
development for hedge fund Good-
wood Inc., were Hammerhead II.
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