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Donald Crawshaw is a member of Sullivan & Cromwell's Corporate and Finance, Financial Institutions, Investment Management and Commodities and Derivatives Groups. He has been active on matters for Canadian and U.S. clients throughout his career, working on a wide variety of public and private financing, acquisition and disposition, reporting, corporate governance, auditor independence and other matters, and is an expert on the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system between Canada and the United States. Mr. Crawshaw has worked on public and private offerings of common and preferred equity, hybrid, convertible, and indexed debt securities and warrants for numerous Canadian and U.S. issuers. His investment management practice includes the representation of open- and closed-end funds and their directors and the development of innovative products, including exchange-traded and various types of unregistered funds. Canadian client responsibilities currently include Royal Bank of Canada, Vale Inco Limited, BCE Inc. and Rio Tinto Alcan. U.S. client commitments include the independent directors of the AllianceBernstein Funds and the Seligman Funds and their independent directors and the unaffiliated underwriters of securities offerings by Merrill Lynch & Co. He has written and spoken about, among other things, issues for audit committees, corporate governance, securities law reform, globalization and the practice of law, regulatory and other developments affecting investment companies, the use of derivatives by pooled investment vehicles, and the multijurisdictional disclosure system between Canada and the United States. Mr. Crawshaw has been recognized as a leading lawyer in The Best Lawyers in America (2008 and 2007). | 