Finance Monthly Taxation Awards 2019 Winners Edition

CANADA | AMERICAS ABOUT MONICA BIRINGER Monica is Co-Chair of Osler’s National Tax Group (alongside with Patrick Marley). Her practice includes all aspects of corporate income tax with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate nance. Monica has developed extensive experience in cross- border mergers, inbound corporate nancing and acquisitions, leasing as a form of nancing and nancial restructuring. Her practice includes tax litigation and she was co-counsel on the rst case involving the general anti-avoidance rule to reach the Supreme Court of Canada. Monica is an author and speaker at conferences on various Canadian tax matters, and is a past Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation, has taught at the Bar Admission Course and is on the editorial board for the Federated Press, a Corporate Finance periodical. Prior to joining Osler, she worked in the International Tax Office of Chuo Coopers & Lybrand in Tokyo. Monica is continuously ranked as a leader in tax law by International Tax Review, Lexpert Guide to Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and Best Lawyers in Canada, Who’s Who Legal, Chambers Global and Women in Business Law. Monica was also named as a 2017 Lexpert Zenith Award recipient for her exceptional leadership skills and accomplishments in supporting the advancement of women in the legal profession. FIRM PROFILE Osler is a leader in Canadian business law with a singular focus – your business. With an integrated network of offices in Toronto, Montréal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, we have an undisputed reputation for solving problems, removing obstacles, and providing the answers you need, when you need them. Osler is recognized for the breadth and depth of its practice in business law and is consistently ranked as one of Canada’s top firms. Proactive, pragmatic, experienced, innovative and collaborative, our team of over 400 lawyers is driven by the specific needs of our clients. At Osler, we do everything it takes to maintain our position as one of Canada’s leading business law firms, meeting and exceeding the expectations of our clients, lawyers, students, staff and communities. We go the extra mile to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients in every matter we handle. We invest in our long-term relationships with a focus on understanding our clients’ businesses, including their changing goals, strategies and challenges. We work hard to stay at the forefront of emerging legal issues and developments that impact our clients’ businesses – and we work even harder to keep them informed. We ensure that we’re doing the right things to remain the firm of choice for the best and brightest law students in Canada, our industry’s future leaders who clients will seek out. We donate millions of dollars and thousands of hours to advancing legal education in Canada. And we stick to the same high standards of recruiting, training and retaining our lawyers, as we do with our management and administrative staff, because leading lawyers need top- flight support and resources. Our lawyers, students and staff engage fully and often in helping our communities become better places to live and work for everyone, because we think that’s an important responsibility as a leading organization. MONICA BIRINGER - OSLER, HOSKIN & HARCOURT LLP 41