J. William Rowley, QC Chairman Emeritus & Special Counsel Tel : 416.865.7008 Fax : 416.865.5519 Email : wrowley@20essexst.com VCard :

J. William Rowley was elected chairman of McMillan in 1996 and Chairman Emeritus and Special Counsel on his retirement from the partnership in 2009. He attended University of Ottawa Law School from 1965-1968, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Ottawa Law Review, University Gold Medalist and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Prior to joining the firm he served as law clerk to Mr. Justice Roland A. Ritchie of the Supreme Court of Canada, and before that served as Special Assistant to the Director (now Commissioner) of the Canadian Competition Bureau. Having spent the first 20 years of his professional career as a barrister involved in all aspects of commercial litigation, Mr. Rowley's current practice is devoted largely to international arbitration, competition law (mergers and acquisitions, dominance and conspiracy), corporate governance and general public policy/government interface advice. He is listed as a leading expert in the antitrust, corporate governance and international arbitration fields by European and North American experts guides.

Mr. Rowley is past Chairman of the International Bar Association, Section on Business Law and a National Representative for Canada. He is a non-executive member of the board of directors of AVIVA Group Canada Ltd., co-founder and a Chairman of the IBA Global Forum on Competition and Trade Policy.

In addition to having headed the firm's Competition Law practice, Mr. Rowley is also a frequent writer and speaker in the Arbitration, Antitrust and Corporate Governance fields, both in Canada and abroad. He is co-author with Donald I. Baker of Rowley & Baker: International Mergers — The Antitrust Process, 3rd edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2006, General Editor, Arbitration World, European Lawyer Reference Series, 3rd edition (Forthcoming) 2010 and Chairman, Editorial Board, Global Arbitration Review, Law Business Research, London. He is Editor-in-Chief, Business Law International, London; Chairman, Editorial Advisory Board of the International Business Lawyer, London; a former member of the Advisory Board of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report, Washington, D.C.; Antitrust Editor of the ABA Canadian Law Newsletter and Editorial Board member of Antitrust Report, Matthew Bender, New York; The Global Competition Review, London; The European Lawyer, London and Canadian Competition Record, Toronto. He is past chairman of the Antitrust and Trade Committee of the International Bar Association and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

In his arbitration practice, Mr. Rowley has chaired or participated as a tribunal member or counsel in numerous international and national arbitrations. He is described as "one of the elite international arbitrators" (The New Peace Keepers, 2005), a "Star Performer" (Legal Business Arbitration Report - 2006), one of London's "Super-Arbitrators" (Global Arbitration Review - May 2006), "Exceptional", "Olympian", "no one ever leaves the chamber with a sense of injustice" (Chambers UK Grid, 2008) and a "big character on the scene" (Chambers UK Guide, 2009). In addition to multiple ICC arbitrations, he has conducted cases under other rules such as those of UNCITRAL, the LCIA, the SCC and the AAA rules, the NAFTA Treaty (Chapter 11 disputes) and the ICSID Convention, the ECT, as well as a number of domestic regimes. These have involved a variety of national laws and treaty systems including many European states, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Belize, Cameroon, Canada, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Dubai, Georgia, Grenada, India, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Thailand, Uganda, Venezuela and Zambia as well as a variety of US State jurisdictions such as New York, Delaware and California.  Recent arbitrations have included disputes involving off-shore oil field licences and PSC's (France, Italy/Netherlands/UK/US and Nigeria), long term LNG supply contracts (UK/US/Spain), hydro electric concessions (UK/Hungary), timber licences/investments (NAFTA/US/Canada), Bermuda Form professional indemnity insurance class action coverage (Bermuda/US), Bermuda Form insurance cover for pharmaceutical class actions settlements (Germany/France/Ireland/UK/US), petroleum industry joint ventures (Kuwait oil fields - US $7B), gas pricing/repricing formulae and similar price adjustment clauses(Canada/US/Spain), international trade mark licensing (US/UK), investor/state investments (NAFTA), international telecom licensing (EU/US/Bermuda), telecom joint ventures (UK/US/India), production sharing contracts and AMI's for petroleum products (Africa/Australia/Singapore/India), aerospace defence contracts (US/UK), power supply project (Philippines), water and sewage services investments (ICSID/Argentina/France), gasoline additives investments (NAFTA/Canada/US), telecom investments (Norway/Russia, UK/Belize), long term crude oil supply contracts (Poland/Russia/US/Venezuela) and steel industry privatisation (Italy/Georgia-ICSID).

He serves on the Boards of the LCIA and LCIA India and is a former Member of the LCIA Court (2005-2010). He is also a member of the National Panel of Arbitrators for Canada, ICC, Paris, a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes(ICSID) (a member of the World Bank Group) and formerly an alternate member of the Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).   Further panel memberships include those of the American Arbitration Association, New York; the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; the German Institute of Arbitration, Cologne; the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, Malaysia; The International Arbitral Centre, Vienna; The Indian Council of Arbitration, New Delhi; the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Melbourne; the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; and the Singapore International Arbitration Centres, Singapore.

Mr. Rowley accepts arbitral appointments through 20 Essex Street Barristers, London, which is one of England's longest established sets of commercial and international chambers.

Mr. Rowley is not remunerated for service he occasionally provides to McMillan LLP or its clients, has no access to McMillan's information systems and his arbitration practice is entirely independent of and fire walled from any service he may provide to the firm.

Mr. Rowley is not a member or an employee of McMillan LLP.

September 2009 The Role of the Judiciary in International Arbitration - The Benefits of Support: Recent English Experience Business Law International, Vol 10 No 3

March 2009 Canada Chapter in Getting the Deal Through - Cartel Regulation 2009 Global Competition Review

August 2008 Letter to the Italian Competition Authority regarding merger notification thresholds

August 2008 Follow-up Letter to the Japan Fair Trade Commission regarding proposed amendments to the Anti-Monopoly Act