Award Categories
Canadian General Counsel of the Year / Chef des Affaires Juridiques de l’Année
(selected by CGCA Advisory Board)
The CGCA Advisory Board will be responsible for nominating and selecting the recipient of the 2009 Canadian General Counsel of the Year Award.
In selecting the Canadian General Counsel of the Year, our advisory board looks for excellence, the ability to deal with complexity across both issues and jurisdictions and, an irrefutable sure-handedness in dealing with whatever challenges are faced. In choosing one person to be honoured above all others, our board looks most carefully at the role each candidate played in their company's overall health and well-being.
Our Canadian General Counsel of the Year winner represents the very best of what this profession stands for.
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Lifetime Achievement Award / Réalisation exceptionnelle
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To find our Lifetime Achievement winner, our advisory board look for a senior member of the in-house bar, one who has made a real difference –– both within their own company and in-house department, as well as with the external counsel who have worked alongside them during their careers.
A lifetime achievement winner has the broadest possible range of accomplishments – the ability to run the complicated deals, the major litigation, the handling of governance issues as well as employment and regulatory matters. They will also have made a lasting contribution to their work community and the community at large within which their company operates. In short, they’ve done it all.
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Business Achievement / Accomplissement, stratégie d’affaires nominate
Judges will be looking for evidence of the role the nominee has played in setting and implementing the overall strategy and success of the division or company’s business.
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Deal Making / Transaction d’envergure nominate
Judges will be looking for evidence of innovation in the transaction and how it affected the structure or outcome of the deal; overall complexity; how the nominee managed the cross-jurisdictional issues where appropriate, and management of both internal and external teams.
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Litigation Management / Gestion de Litige nominate
Judges will be looking for evidence of hands on management of external advisers; how decisions made in legal strategy underpinned the company’s brand; and where appropriate, how the nominee managed multi-jurisdictional issues.
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Mid Market Excellence / Excellence, Petites et Moyennes Entreprises nominate
Judges will be looking beyond management of legal issues for evidence of the role the nominee plays in developing and implementing corporate strategy; his or her participation in key negotiations as a representative of the company with decision-making authority; management of legal and other risks; and the supervision of internal and external counsel teams. Eligible companies will be limited to those public and private companies with a market capitalization under $1.5 billion.
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Tomorrow's Leader / Conseiller Juridique d’Avenir nominate
Seeking to highlight and encourage a leader of the general counsel bar of tomorrow in his/her growth and development, judges will be looking for counsel that has been called to a Canadian Bar for ten years or less (year 2000 or later). Nominated counsel will not only demonstrate superior legal capability but also demonstrate great leadership through actions and attitude when facing significant transactions or litigation that affects the business.
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