GO WEST, GOOD INVESTOR, GO WEST…TO THE WEST COAST [Part 2]

The second session of this two-part panel will focus on investment strategies, procedures, and regulations affecting foreign investors in the western states and provinces of the United States and Canada, exploring such issues as asset acquisition, alternative investment vehicles, and best practices for investors.

CO-MODERATORS:

Ronald D. Husdon, Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, United States
Ronald Husdon represents and counsels both domestic and foreign corporations and financial institutions in a broad range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, expansion strategies, corporate divestures, joint ventures, general corporate and commercial matters, real estate, and finance. He regularly represents foreign clients with respect to all forms of international commerce. MORE>

Roger S. Saxton, Special Counsel
Nash O'Neill Tomko Lawyers, Australia
Roger Saxton is an international commercial transactions and corporate lawyer who has practiced in the United States, Japan, Sweden, and, since 1989, Australia. Best known for his work advising mining, natural resource, and energy companies, he is also well versed in advising consumer products, electronics, software, food distribution and retail, and food service retail companies. MORE>

PANELISTS:

John Iino, Partner
Reed Smith LLP, United States
John Iino is the firmwide leader of Reed Smith's Corporate & Securities Practice Group. He has substantial experience representing U.S., Asian, Canadian, and multinational companies in a wide variety of corporate, financial, and commercial transactions, including emerging and high-tech/biotech companies, private placements and public offerings, private equity transactions, and cross-border financings. MORE>

Kevin W. Keyes, Partner
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Canada
Kevin Keyes is a corporate/commercial lawyer with a practice emphasis in the area of real estate development and financing. He has advised clients with respect to land assembly, annexation, purchase, subdivision, re-zoning, development approvals, financing, leasing, management and sale of commercial and institutional projects, as well as public/private sector initiatives. MORE>

Kevin McFarlane, Managing Director
Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance LLC, United States
Kevin McFarlane has over 15 years of investment banking experience advising both public and private entities on strategic and financing initiatives with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and the raising of equity, hybrid equity, and debt capital. He has served as a lead advisor for companies across a broad spectrum of industries. MORE>

H. Gregory Nasky, Partner
Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel LLP, United States
Gregory Nasky represents clients in negotiating and structuring corporate, commercial, and real estate transactions, private and public financings, and regulatory compliance matters. He has served as an executive and as a director of a New York Stock Exchange company and as a director of an Australian Stock Exchange company. MORE>

Shawn C. D. Neylan, Partner
Stikeman Elliott LLP, Canada
Shawn Neylan is a partner at Stikeman Elliott, practicing competition and investment review law. He led the regulatory teams for Lakeport in its acquisition by Labatt, CVRD in its groundbreaking Canadian acquisition of Inco Limited, and Canadian Waste Services in one of the few merger cases that have been litigated in the Competition Tribunal. MORE>

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