Alan Paley, Peter Loughran, Nicholas Pellicani, Katie Hermann, Ashwin Phadnis and Ben Strumeier (corporate/securities), Michael Bolotin and Mike Layfield (tax) from Debevoise & Plimpton LLP ; and David Seville, Jonathan Cescon, David Leith and Isabella Ssozi (corporate/securities), Jerald Wortsman and Catrina Card (tax) from Torys LLP provided external support to Manulife Financial. The underwriters were represented by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. The Paul, Weiss team included Christopher Cummings, Christian Kurtz, Rebecca Vasluianu and Aaron Abramson (corporate/securities) and David Mayo and Amir Cooper (tax).