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He was the long-time chair of the Toronto Port Authority and, earlier in his career, advised a committee of Canada’s Senate on issues that included the creation of major public-sector pensionfunds such as the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP acted as legal counsel for OMERS PrivateEquity.
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Gillian Tan, Swetha Gopinath and Layan Odeh of Bloomberg report OMERS to stop making direct privateequity investments in Europe: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will stop making direct privateequity investments in Europe as the pensionfund overhauls its operations there, according to people familiar with the matter.
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