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Jon Truswell Partner, Bennett Jones

Jon Truswell's practice focuses primarily on domestic, cross-border and international mergers and acquisitions, public and private equity and debt financings, reporting issuer compliance, shareholder activism and critical situations and restructurings and corporate governance.
 
Jon's principal area of practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions, including going private transactions, acting for the acquirer, target and special committees. Jon also has significant corporate finance experience in public and private debt and equity financings in Canada and the U.S. In addition, Jon has experience in corporate reorganizations, restructuring and spin-outs; corporate governance; continuous disclosure; incentive compensation and general commercial transactions.

Jon has been recognized by Lexpert Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada as a Canadian corporate lawyer to watch, by Lexpert Report on Business Special Edition as a leading Canadian energy lawyer, and by Lexperts Rising Stars Leading Lawyers under 40.
 
Recently, Jon spent five years as the Chair and a member of the Board of Directors of Calgary's Prostate Cancer Centre. Jon is also a former Chair and a member of the Board of Governors of the Lindsay Park Sports Society, a not-for-profit society that manages and operates the Repsol Sports Centre in Calgary, Alberta.

Harinder Basra Partner, Bennett Jones

Harinder Basra practises corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, shareholder activism, corporate governance and general corporate matters.
 
His practice focuses on advising domestic and international clients on transactions in the upstream oil and natural gas industry. Harinder provides practical legal advice to a diverse group of clients, from start-ups to multinational dual-listed issuers. His clients include public and private entities, private equity funds and investment banks.
 
Harinder has acted for buyers and sellers on several high profile acquisitions and dispositions in the oil and natural gas industry. His extensive experience in the M&A space includes take-over bids, plans of arrangement and corporate reorganizations. Harinder has also developed an expertise advising issuers and underwriters in a wide variety of corporate finance matters, including domestic and cross-border initial public offerings, secondary offerings and new issues of equity and debt securities. He also routinely advises clients on regulatory compliance and corporate governance matters.

Elizabeth Allum Associate, Bennett Jones

Elizabeth Allum assists clients with corporate, commercial and civil litigation matters. She represents clients before the Provincial Court of Alberta and the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, and has assisted with matters before the Alberta Court of Appeal.
 
During law school, Elizabeth served as a Writing Fellow, where she taught first year law students foundational legal research and writing skills. She has dedicated substantial time to several causes and projects, including Student Legal Services, where she provided free legal assistance to low income individuals.
 
Elizabeth is a member of the Calgary Bar Association and a volunteer with Pro Bono Law Alberta.