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Sidney Robinson is a retired Senior Partner of Torys LLP, Toronto and New York, who practiced corporate/commercial law, with emphasis on financings, mergers and acquisitions and international projects. He represented business clients from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the United States, including AGIP SpA., BMW AG, Barrick Gold Corporation, Canada Post Corporation, Inmet Mining Corporation, Metallgesellschaft AG, Mitsubishi Corporation, RBC Dominion Securities and BMO Nesbitt Burns. In his practice, Mr. Robinson acted as strategic and legal advisor to senior management and Boards of Directors of these and other corporations.Mr. Robinson was a long time member of Torys’ Executive Committee. He served on the Boards of Directors of a number of public and private Canadian and US corporations including the Boards of Directors of AGIP Canada Ltd., BMW Canada Inc., C.I. Fund Management Inc., Inmet Mining Corporation and Purolator Courier Ltd. He currently sits on the boards of Pelmorex Communications Inc. (The Weather Network), Amerigo Resources Inc., Chartwell Seniors Housing Real Estate Investment Trust and Butterfield & Robinson Inc. Mr. Robinson was the first Chairman of Canada Post Corporation’s Real Estate Advisory Committee and served in that capacity for several years. Before his career in law, Mr. Robinson taught philosophy at the University of Toronto and at York University. He is also a founding partner of Butterfield & Robinson Inc., North America’s preeminent active, luxury, Travel Company. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1968 and received an LL.M. from Osgoode Hall, York University in 1977. | 