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Tina Woodside is a partner in Gowlings' Toronto office, specializing in corporate and securities law with particular emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters.

Tina's M&A practice involves advising acquirors and target companies regarding friendly and hostile takeover bids and other forms of business combinations. Her corporate finance practice involves advising issuers and underwriters, both domestic and foreign, regarding initial public offerings, prospectus offerings, private placements, stock exchange listings, establishing operations in Canada and providing advice with respect to corporate governance matters and securities regulatory matters.

In December 2010, Tina was appointed a member of the Ontario Securities Commission Securities Advisory Committee, which consults with the OSC on a wide range of market issues and provides advice to the OSC on legislative and policy initiatives and capital market trends.

In September 2011, Tina was appointed a Fellow of the American Bar Association. Membership in the Fellows is limited to one third of one per cent of the lawyers in America. Fellows of the ABF is an honorary organization of legal professionals who have been elected by their peers because of outstanding achievements in the legal profession.

Since the merger of Smith Lyons LLP with Gowlings in 2001, Tina has held a number of senior management positions within the Firm. She is the past head of the Toronto Corporate Finance Department, and has been a member of the Toronto Management Committee and the National Executive Committee as well as chair of the National Professional Development and Associates Committee and the National Governance Committee.