McCarthy Tétrault

Abraham Costin

Practice covers a full range of transactions, including leasing, acquisitions, development and financing. Acts for both large and small developers, pension funds and financial institutions. Practice also includes insolvency and realisation work related to real property. · Real Estate

Adam Goldenberg

Adam is a litigation partner at McCarthy Tétrault. His trial and arbitration practice focuses on commercial and regulatory disputes. He has particular expertise in appeals and judicial reviews. Clients value Adam’s advice on complex business problems, his agility in handling urgent issues, and his prowess in the courtroom. He has litigated matters in the courts of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and New Brunswick, as well as the federal courts. He has been counsel in more than 20 appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada. Adam regularly acts pro bono for individuals and public interest organizations, including in high-profile matters affecting the LGBTQ2S+ community. Adam serves on the Leadership Council of the World Justice Project, an independent, multidisciplinary organization working to advance the rule of law worldwide. Early in his career, he was a law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has taught appellate practice and procedure at the University of Toronto and lectured at law schools across Canada on constitutional and administrative law. · Litigation

Alain Tardif

Alain N. Tardif is a partner in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group in Montréal. His practice focuses on domestic, cross-border and transnational corporate restructuring transactions, including All kind of cross-border restructurings, out-of-court restructurings and workouts, strategic insolvency-based acquisitions, and near-insolvency investing scenarios He has acted in a significant number of restructurings and reorganizations, leading representation of debtor companies, lenders, creditors, key shareholders, private equity firms and strategic investors. He frequently assists the World Bank as an insolvency law expert, and as such, participated in missions in various countries in the Caribbean and Africa. His expertise and experience have led to regular invitations to speak to various organizations about insolvency issues and to present restructuring strategies tailored to the firm’s clients , to be chosen as co-editor of the Canadian Bankruptcy Report and to becoming a member of the intervention committee of CAIRP. · Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Alexandra Cocks

Alex is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Litigation Group and the National Class Actions Group. Alex is an experienced commercial litigator and has appeared in courts in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario. Alex has significant arbitration experience, in domestic and international arbitrations. Her practice focuses on complex commercial disputes and class action defence. She is experienced in litigating contractual claims, partnership and shareholder disputes, fraud and breach of trust claims, real estate disputes, product liability and privacy claims. She represents clients from a broad array of industries, such as financial services, consumer and retail, technology and manufacturing. · Litigation

Alyson Goldman

Alyson is a corporate lawyer who acts as counsel to various public and private companies, independent committees, underwriters and financial advisors on various securities and corporate law matters. Her extensive experience includes advising on public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, financial advisory matters, corporate governance matters, take-over bids, mergers, reorganizations and other business combinations, shareholder activism, proxy contests, stock exchange listing matters, regulatory compliance, and general corporate matters for public and private companies. · Corporate / M&A

Amy Dupuis-Sène

Her practice is focused on immigration law, more specifically on the international mobility of workers and business people nationally and abroad. Amy offers comprehensive immigration services to individuals and Canadian and multinational companies, including regarding Canadian and foreign work permit matters. Amy holds a Bachelor’s of Civil Law (LLB) from Université de Montréal and a certificate in labour law from Université du Québec à Montréal. Her expertise was recently recognized in the 2021 and 2022 editions of Best Lawyers - Ones to watch. She is part of the executive committee of the Canadian Bar Association (Quebec division) Immigration and Citizenship section. · Immigration

Andrew Matheson

Andrew is the Head of McCarthy Tétrault’s National White Collar and Investigations Group. He specializes in complex and cross-border investigations, regulatory and criminal defence, and professional discipline matters. His diverse experience includes practicing with Allen & Overy in New York City. In his investigations practice, Andrew addresses a wide range of exposures, including fraud, corruption, insider trading, money laundering, tax evasion and sanctions violations. He often appears before administrative tribunals, as well as appearing before the court of Ontario, including in the successful defence of the former CEO of Nortel on criminal fraud charges. He teaches at University of Toronto Law School, and publishes widely on matters relating to financial crime and investigations. He has been active in pro bono work throughout in his career, including acting for Guantanamo Bay detainees. · White Collar Crime

Andrew Parker

Andrew is co-head of the firm’s National Capital Markets Practice and is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Group in Toronto. Recognized as a leader in his field, Andrew’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law in general, including corporate finance (both domestic and cross-border), mergers and acquisitions, collective investment vehicles and registration and licensing matters. Andrew’s expertise in equity and debt capital markets combined with his practical, thorough, and responsive approach consistently make him the top choice for clients with sophisticated corporate and securities matters. Highly regarded by a variety of key sources, Andrew is involved in both public and private offerings for issuers, investors and underwriters with extensive experience in debt capital markets transactions (including high yield offerings). Clients count on Andrew’s deep understanding of the technical aspects of securities law to help guide them through complex legal matters efficiently and effectively. · Capital Markets

André Baril

Labour and Employment partner based in Montréal. Acts for employers in a number of sectors, including manufacturing, transportation, mining, financial institutions, universities and government. His expertise focuses on all aspects of both provincial and federal labour and employment law, including: Collective bargaining and agreement administration, wrongful dismissals, employment agreements, employment standards and policies, workplace harassment and discrimination, labour arbitration and pay equity. Has acted as counsel before the Québec Tribunal administratif du travail, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, boards of arbitration, Human Rights Tribunal, and other boards and tribunals, as well as civil and Federal courts. · Employment & Labour

Annie Gagnon-Larocque

Partner in the Real Property and Planning Group in Montréal. Practice focuses on real estate acquisitions, real estate financings, property development, commercial leasing, and joint venture transactions. Regularly represents financial institutions and public and private companies in the multi-residential, retail and hotel industries, and for development work. Acting on major transactions for purchasers, lenders and developers of residential and mixed-use projects, including on projects involving vertical subdivisions and co-ownership. · Real Estate

Barry Sookman

Senior counsel in the Technology Law Group. Former leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property group. One of Canada’s foremost authorities in information technology, Internet, copyright and privacy law. Acts in connection with complex IT/AI//IP transactions and defense procurements and in IT/IP litigation. Has argued numerous precedent-setting cases at all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Adjunct professor of IP law at Osgoode. Author’s blog at www.barrysookman.com · Intellectual Property

Brian Bidyk

Head of the firms oil and gas practice group. Practice encompasses a variety of corporate/commercial matters, with a specialization in M&A and divestitures in the oil and gas, electricity and renewable power industries. Advises major oil and gas corporations in the upstream, midstream and service sectors, as well as electricity developers, generators and transmission companies in respect of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and partnerships, as well as the operation, development and construction of energy projects. He currently acts as corporate secretary for several of his clients and has developed corporate finance experience through his work with both public and private companies in equity and loan financing. · Oil & Gas

Brian Lipson

Brian is a Partner and co-leader of the firm’s Transportation and Logistics group. His practice focuses on M&A, commercial agreements, regulatory compliance, and licensing in the areas of road and rail transportation, warehousing and supply chain. Brian has provided advice in respect of numerous purchase and sale agreements, reorganizations, and investments, and provides licensing advice in respect of cross-border transportation in the rail and road modes. He offers contractual solutions and advice on liability and risk exposure to a variety of transportation clients. Brian also has extensive experience with licensing and permitting requirements for commercial motor vehicles and for motor vehicle dealers throughout Canada, including obtaining licences from regulators in the context of cross-border acquisitions and expansions. · Transportation

Bryn Gray KC

Partner with extensive experience advising industry proponents and governments on Aboriginal law matters across Canada, including Aboriginal rights and title, the duty to consult, the negotiation and implementation of agreements with Indigenous groups, and litigation and dispute resolution. Previously served as a Ministerial Special Representative for the federal government on consultation and accommodation and has acted as counsel in matters relating to Aboriginal rights and title, the duty to consult, and revenue sharing arrangement disputes. · Aboriginal / Indigenous Law

Cameron Belsher KC

Recent experience acting as lead counsel includes: friendly and hostile mergers and acquisitions involving public and private companies (both domestic and cross-border); debt restructurings; going-private transactions; proxy contests for control; initial public offerings; other public and private equity financings; all aspects of private equity M&A; royalty trust acquisitions and restructurings; and acting as general counsel and strategic advisor to management teams and their Boards. · Corporate / M&A

Caroline Zayid

National Leader of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Practice focuses on product liability and class actions, at the trial and appellate levels. Has litigated many significant product liability cases including on behalf of manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and consumer products. Has also acted on numerous cross-border class actions in relation to health care, financial services, securities, and automotive products. Extensive experience in administrative and public law for public and private sector clients. Represents clients at all levels of courts including the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the courts of appeal of Ontario, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. · Litigation

Catherine Samuel

Partner in the firm’s Business Law group and Technology Group in Calgary. Leads the National Procurement Group. Diverse practice focuses on complex M&A and commercial transactions, including private equity, acquisitions and divestitures, reorganizations, joint ventures, strategic projects, procurement, IT and outsourcing transactions. Extensive experience acting on cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions, including numerous Canadian market entry deals on behalf of foreign companies. Acts for Canadian and international clients in the energy, telecommunications, technology, retail, cannabis, financial services and healthcare industries. · Corporate / M&A

Chantal Arsenault

Chantal Arsenault is a partner in the MT>iplus immigration practice in Montreal. She has been practising in immigration law and professional mobility since 1995, providing advice on immigration issues to small and medium-sized companies as well as large international corporations. Known for her proactive approach, she accompanies her clients in their projects to bring foreign workers to Canada. Her clients span a wide range of industries, including technology, entertainment, sports, food service, pharmaceutical and manufacturing. Ms. Arsenault works with clients across Canada and the United States in French and English. · Immigration

Charles Morgan

National Co-leader of McCarthy Tétrault’s Cyber/Data Group. His practice takes a 360-degree approach to data, helping clients extract the tremendous value inherent in data, while at the same time managing the associated risks. He is a recognized thought-leader on the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence. Focus on cybersecurity, data protection, artificial intelligence, big data, tech sourcing, licensing, e-commerce, fintech and telecommunications. Represents broad range of clients, including financial institutions, communications, aeronautics and digital media companies in data management, outsourcing, systems integration and other complex commercial transactions. Regularly assists clients as breach coach (cyber readiness and response). · Cybersecurity

Christine Ing

Christine heads the firm’s National Technology Group and co-heads its Fintech Group. Christine’s practice focuses on commercial transactions involving technology, data and intellectual property. She is frequently sought in relation to digital transformation and collaborative innovation deals, involving novel technologies (including AI and blockchain). In the past several years, Christine has increasingly focused on data driven commercial arrangements that involve bilateral data sharing, data licensing, big data analytics and AI. She has had over two decades of experience in a wide variety of complex commercial arrangements having technology at their core, including outsourcing, systems and software acquisitions, systems and software development, licensing, various ASP and SAAS arrangements, complex services agreements and distribution/reseller agreements. Christine regularly acts for major Canadian financial institutions and other Fortune 500 companies. · Technology

Christine Lonsdale

Christine is a partner in the Litigation Group in Toronto. A premier commercial litigator known for her practical approach, Christine’s practice focuses primarily on class actions, privacy defamation and administrative. Representing a broad range of clients, including financial institutions, media companies, and regulatory bodies, clients appreciate Christine’s responsiveness, ability to find creative legal solutions to real world problems, and commitment to providing optimal results to their complex issues in a timely and effective way. Working with client needs, she tailors her approach to suit the context in which their business operates, mitigating risk and advocating to protect their reputation and integrity. Christine has a strong track record of success in ensuring tight alignment between the litigation and media strategies. Christine can litigate a case to a successful conclusion or craft an early exit strategy. Christine is fully bilingual and litigates regularly in French and English. She has appeared as counsel at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in major cases in Ontario, British Columbia and Newfoundland. · Litigation

Christopher Hubbard

Chris is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Litigation Group in Toronto. His general litigation practice focuses on complex commercial disputes and professional negligence. Chris is sought out by clients from diverse industries to assist with a variety of litigation and regulatory issues, including product liability claims, class proceedings, product recalls, and commercial contract disputes. His clients include leading food and consumer products companies, national and international retailers, automakers, mining companies, construction companies, and consulting firms. He has appeared as lead counsel for successful clients before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, and multiple provincial Superior Courts and Courts of Appeal. · Litigation

Christopher Langdon

Christopher Langdon is a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto and London UK and is co-lead of our Projects Group. Christopher advises clients on a range of project development and finance transactions, representing sponsors, project companies, commercial banks and international financial institutions. He has extensive experience in banking, project finance, financial restructuring, joint ventures, metal streaming, off-takes and concessions. Most recently, he has been advising on major project financings and complex commercial arrangements for mining, energy and infrastructure projects in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Canada and the United States. · Project Finance

Christopher McHardy

Partner in our Labour & Employment Group in Vancouver. Advises employers on a broad range of provincial and federal workplace issues relating to labour, employment, human rights, privacy and immigration law. Regularly advises US, UK, Australian, Chinese and other offshore clients in connection with establishing business operations in British Columbia. Also advises on and negotiates labour and employment issues in corporate mergers, acquisitions and outsourcing, including executive employment agreements. Regularly represents management in collective bargaining, negotiations, investigations, mediations, arbitrations, administrative hearings and in court. Appeared as counsel in matters before all levels of court in British Columbia, the BC Labour Relations Board, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the BC Human Rights Tribunal, the BC Employment Standards Tribunal, the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal and provincial and federal grievance arbitration panels. Publishes and presents extensively on labour, employment, human rights, privacy and immigration issues in the workplace. · Labour & Employment

Chrystelle Chevalier-Gagnon

Chrystelle is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s business law group and the Industry Group Leader of our National Retail and Consumer Markets Group. She brings a creative and innovative approach to getting deals done. Her practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and complex ownership and governance structures. Chrystelle regularly represents U.S., European and other international clients investing in Canada, as well as Canadian clients investing abroad. She is a trusted advisor for private and public companies and organizations of multiple sizes across our Retail and Consumer Markets sectors, agrifood and food, forestry, energy and sustainable mobility. · Corporate / M&A

Cindy Vaillancourt

Practice focuses on environmental, energy, mining, regulatory matters and pre-penal litigation advisory work. She advises clients from diversified sectors in the context of project development, permitting process, sales/purchases of business or properties, regulatory changes and advocacy initiatives. She also provides, trainings on liability and due diligence measures, advises on contaminated land management, supports clients with governmental investigation and inspections and coordinate risk monitoring and audit processes. She has developed a deep understanding of climate change policies and regularly helps clients navigate the greenhouse gas emission cap-and-trade systems. Prior to joining the firm, she was a legal and political advisor on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. · Environment

Clemens Mayr

Practice focuses on securities and corporate law, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate governance and public financings, both domestic and cross-border. · Corporate / M&A

Conrad Rego

Partner, Real Property & Planning Group in Vancouver. Practice focused on all aspects of commercial real estate, with a particular emphasis on real estate financing. Regularly advises significant institutional and private landlords, developers, investors and lenders on a variety of residential, commercial, mixed-use and comprehensive projects. · Real Estate

Craig Shirreff

Partner and leader of our Real Property and Planning Group in Vancouver. He advises clients in a number of different industries on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, structuring, leasing and financing. · Real Estate

Dana Peebles

Past Chair of the firm’s National Class Actions Team and partner in the litigation group in Toronto. Civil litigation practice focused on class actions (particularly securities, data breach, pensions) and corporate-commercial litigation. Acted for leading Canadian and international companies in complex and challenging matters in the trial and appellate Courts in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Quebec, and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Was co-counsel for Defendants in the first two statutory secondary market securities class action leave motions in Canada. · Class Actions

Daniel Bornstein

Daniel’s legal practice is focused on project development and negotiating agreements between project proponents and Indigenous communities in the mining and energy industries, Aboriginal law and environmental law. Daniel has extensive experience advising domestic and international companies on permitting and environmental law, sustainability strategies and agreements with project stakeholders. Prior to joining McCarthy Tétrault, Daniel held various senior roles in the environmental and sustainability departments of an international mining company, where he gained extensive experience negotiating with Indigenous groups in Canada and throughout the Americas. Daniel is valued by clients for his on-the-ground experience with Indigenous communities and permitting major projects and his sound commercial judgment. · Indigenous Law

Daniel Glover

Partner in Intellectual Property group and national co-lead of Cyber/Data group. Advises on copyright, trademark and confidential information protection, primarily through litigation, including in technology, sports and entertainment, fashion, consumer products, retail, financial and health services fields. Numerous cases involving trade dress. Information law practice extends to privacy and cybersecurity litigation (including class actions), data breach response, and Internet law. Counsel in intellectual property matters before Supreme Court of Canada (7 appearances), US Supreme Court of the United States (led drafting of amicus brief on international copyright law), Federal Court of Appeal, Federal Court, numerous provincial appellate and superior courts, Copyright Board, CRTC, and the Trademarks Opposition Board. Testified as expert on Copyright Board before Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce; significant experience on copyright, trademark and privacy reform. · Intellectual Property

Danny Grandilli

Partner in the firm’s Toronto office. Practice focuses on private equity structuring, pension fund structuring, limited partnerships, joint ventures, and commercial real estate, including acquisitions, sale and leaseback transactions, financings, and property development. A significant portion of his practice is devoted to serving the pension fund industry and private equity real estate sector. Has been engaged by a range of private equity funds, pension funds, and pension fund managers in private equity fund structures, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and asset management advice. In the last 15 years, has acted for real estate fund promoters in structuring, marketing, and closing multiple open and closed-ended funds across varying asset classes, which have attracted investment from investors of all sizes and types, and then in deploying funds raised in real estate projects. · Private Equity

Darryl Cruz

Darryl’s litigation practice is focused on professional liability and commercial litigation. He has appeared at all levels of court in Ontario and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Darryl has conducted many trials, both jury and non-jury, over his litigation career. His trials have been in relation to all areas of law, including contracts, advertising, competition, insurance, tax, environmental, intellectual property, technology, defamation, employment and professional negligence. In the professional negligence context, Darryl is known for his work as lead counsel for physicians in a wide variety of negligence and discipline cases. Darryl teaches Trial Advocacy and Medical Negligence at Queen’s Law School. · Litigation

David Blair

Partner leading the firm’s Transportation and Logistics Group and a member of the Business Law Group. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience acquired over the past 30 years, he helps clients with complex regulatory transportation issues and finding adapted business solutions. He is known for his expertise in interprovincial and international transportation, safety standards regulation and carriers’ liability. Various leading Canadian, US and European companies in the rail, trucking and bus industries as well as the mining sector consult him for his in-depth experience and expertise. He is regularly involved in complex National and International transactions involving rail and road transportation businesses. He also appears before administrative tribunals, agencies and the courts in regulatory, safety compliance and liability matters. · Transportation

David Lever

David A.N. Lever is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Toronto. In addition, he is the Industry Group Leader of the firm’s Infrastructure Group and Co-Head of the firm’s Projects practice. Known for his expertise in M&A and project finance and development, David has been actively involved in the power industry for over three decades. He has acted for developers, investors and lenders in connection with wind, hydro, nuclear and co-generation power projects in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the United States. David has provided counsel in the areas of development, financing, contract negotiation, permitting and regulatory matters and ownership structures. He has extensive experience in financings for public and private corporations and income funds in both public and private markets. David also has significant experience in the purchase and sale of businesses in the energy industry. · Corporate / M&A

David Woollcombe

David’s practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions and public company advice. David has advised many Canadian and international businesses on acquisition, divestiture and reorganisation transactions. David regularly advises public companies and their boards of directors on major transactions and governance matters. He has significant experience in capital markets matters, having acted for issuers and investment dealers in a wide variety of cross-border and domestic public offerings and private placements. David has experience across a broad range of industries, including financial services, natural resources, technology, manufacturing, consumer products and telecommunications. · Corporate / M&A

Dean C. Masse

Dean focuses on securitization, structured finance, securities and fintech transactions, including single-seller, multi-seller and cross border securitization transactions. Dean has significant experience acting as lead counsel for issuers, sellers, purchasers, lenders, borrowers, underwriters and trustees in various public and private securitization, structured finance, securities and fintech transactions, with his securitization and structured finance transactions involving a variety of asset classes, including credit card receivables, residential and commercial mortgages, home equity lines of credit, auto loans and leases, and consumer finance receivables. Dean also has extensive experience acting as lead counsel for issuers and underwriters in connection with prospectus offerings, private placements, medium term notes programs, commercial paper programs, covered bonds programs and continuous disclosure matters. He has spoken at a number of conferences on various securitization, structured finance and fintech topics. · Securitization

Debbie Salzberger

Debbie acts for clients in domestic and multinational mergers and acquisitions with respect to competition/antitrust law and foreign investment review matters. She also regularly provides competition law compliance advice in respect of criminal cartel matters and reviewable practices, including joint ventures, resale pricing, advertising and distribution issues. Widely recognized in Canada and abroad for her experience working on complex domestic and multijurisdictional transactions, Debbie’s practice is marked by her pragmatic and solutions oriented approach, working with clients to achieve their objectives. Her deep knowledge of the Canadian competition/antitrust and foreign investment regimes is complemented by her understanding of a variety of industries, making her a valued business advisor. · Competition / Antitrust

Dominic Thérien

Dominic advises clients on all aspects of competition law, including merger control, cartel defence, abuse of dominance, and advertising and marketing practices. He has solid experience with domestic and international criminal cartel and bid-rigging investigations. He also advises on foreign investment merger review and national security issues arising under the Investment Canada Act. From 2011 to 2013, Dominic acted as Assistant Deputy Commissioner for the Quebec and Atlantic regions with the Canadian Competition Bureau. In his role, he was responsible for criminal cartel and bid-rigging investigations, as well as investigations with respect to advertising and marketing practices. · Competition / Antitrust

Donovan Plomp

Partner in firm’s Labour & Employment group in Vancouver. Appeared as counsel in matters before all levels of court in British Columbia, the British Columbia Labour Relations Board, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and grievance arbitration panels. Publishes and presents extensively on labour, employment and human rights legal issues. · Labour & Employment

Douglas Yoshida KC

Doug Yoshida is a partner and the Practice Lead of the firm’s Litigation Group in Calgary. Doug’s practice focuses on corporate-commercial disputes in the energy industry, including disputes regarding joint ventures, securities, facility and equipment failures, accounting, valuations, insurance and asset and corporate transactions. He represents private and public companies such as exploration and production companies and global companies that service and invest in the energy sector. Doug has appeared as lead counsel at all levels of court in Alberta, including in chambers, trials and appeals and represents parties before administrative, mediation and arbitration hearings. He has been retained to litigate disputes elsewhere in, and outside of, Canada. · Litigation

Emmanuelle Poupart

Partner based in Montreal with a general litigation practice in professional liability, class actions related to pharmaceutical products and other consumer products and insurance for policyholders. She is the lead for the firm’s Medical Liability Group, supporting both the Quebec City and Montreal offices. She frequently acts as lead counsel for doctors in a wide variety of negligence and discipline cases. She has experience at trial and appellate level and before administrative tribunals. · Litigation

Erin Keogh

Erin Keogh is an associate in the firm’s Competition/Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group. She maintains a general practice encompassing all aspects of competition law, including mergers and acquisitions, marketing and distribution practices, abuse of dominance, criminal and civil investigations, and compliance matters. · Competition / Antitrust

Eva Bellissimo

Co-Leader of McCarthy Tétrault’s Global Metals & Mining Group and National Practice Group Leader of McCarthy’s Business Law Group. Named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada, Eva is deeply connected to the mining industry and is a strategic and entrepreneurial transactional lawyer. With more than 20 years in the industry and having lead hundreds of transactions, Eva has extensive expertise in complex international M&A transactions, in particular in hostile or contested situations, as well as cross-border capital markets transactions. Eva regularly develops deal strategy for a variety of transactions including arrangements, RTOs, going-private transactions, take-over bids, public equity offerings, convertible debt transactions and IPOs. Eva is also a lead advisor to a number of international clients seeking to undertake strategic investments in TSX-listed issuers. She has also navigated issuers through proxy contests and advised with respect to activist shareholder actions. Eva’s experience extends to the boardroom where she is also a director and chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of i-80 Gold Corp, a TSX and NYSE listed gold issuer and a director of Lift Power Corporation, a TSX-V listed lithium issuer. Eva is repeatedly recognized in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, Legal 500 and Lexpert Special Edition as a leading lawyer in the areas of mining, finance, M&A, and corporate law. · Mining

Frank McLaughlin

Frank’s practice focuses on the defence of pharmaceutical product liability class actions, medical malpractice claims and a range of commercial litigation cases. Frank is a leading trial lawyer in medical malpractice litigation, having successfully defended over 30 cases through trial, both jury and non-jury. Frank has many high-profile representative works, including acting as National lead counsel for a number of pharmaceutical innovator companies. Frank and his team have taken creative approaches to the defence of class actions and have defeated class certification motions on behalf of AstraZeneca, in Martin v. AstraZeneca (involving the atypical anti-psychotic medication Seroquel), and on behalf of Lundbeck in Price v. Lundbeck (involving the anti-depressant Celexa)(currently under appeal). Frank has been involved in many leading medical malpractice decisions and specializes in birth injury litigation. Frank is a frequent presenter at conferences on medical legal issues. · Product Liability

François Giroux

Partner in the firm's Litigation Group based in Montréal. François' practice focuses on complex corporate commercial litigation, including contractual disputes, class actions, internal investigations, commercial arbitration and banking litigation. François is a highly versatile litigator, with significant trial and appellate experience in major commercial cases, mediatized disputes and multi-jurisdictional litigation. He regularly appears before federal and provincial courts of all levels and many administrative tribunals. Member of the firm's Recruitment Committee. · Litigation

Geneviève St-Cyr Larkin

Geneviève St-Cyr Larkin is an associate part of the Litigation Group in Montréal. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation more particularly related to banking law, fraud and securities, white collar defence, regulatory compliance, and internal investigations. · Litigation

Geoff Hall

Geoff is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Group in the firm’s Toronto office. As a leading litigator on corporate and commercial matters, Geoff represents a broad spectrum of organizations in contract disputes; shareholder disputes; banking disputes; tax disputes; administrative law litigation; Aboriginal litigation; and insolvency and bankruptcy cases. Highly effective and equally at ease as trial and appellate counsel, he consistently provides high-quality, strategic advice to clients and successfully resolves precedent-setting cases before all levels of Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and in domestic and international arbitrations. · Litigation

Gideon Kwinter

Gideon Kwinter is an associate in the firm’s Competition/Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group in Toronto. Gideon advises clients on all aspects of competition law, including mergers and acquisitions, marketing and advertising practices, abuse of dominance, criminal and civil investigations, and compliance matters. Gideon also provides counsel to foreign investors and Canadian businesses with respect to economic, cultural and national security matters under the Investment Canada Act. Gideon has advised on numerous complex, global and domestic strategic transactions, with extensive experience in the transportation, telecommunications, retail, financial services and aerospace industries. · Competition / Antitrust

Godyne Sibay

McCarthy Tétrault's Regional Managing Partner (Ontario), a Senior Partner in the firm's Real Property, Projects and Infrastructure Group and a former member of the firm’s Board of Partners, a trusted legal and strategic advisor with extensive experience in project development, public-private partnerships (PPP), public procurement and real estate including acquisition, disposition, leasing and construction matters. Significant landmark infrastructure and development projects across Canada include numerous PPP and other projects involving hospitals, power, transportation, universities, hotels, forensic facilities, police facilities, condominium, commercial, mixed use and professional sport facilities that strengthen our cities and communities. Godyne is consistently recognized for her experience in leading legal directories in Canada and beyond. Awarded the Women’s Infrastructure Network’s National 2021 WIN Award as Outstanding Leader for significant and meaningful contributions to infrastructure in Canada and beyond. Godyne is recognized as a Leadership Champion by WLI and one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by WXN. · Real Estate

Gordon Baird

Focuses on lending and secured transactions, with particular emphasis on the power, financial services, financial market infrastructure, private equity, and communications industries. Regularly acts for banks, non-bank lenders and borrowers on domestic, cross-border and international debt transactions. Recent transactions include acting for lenders to hydro-electric, wind and solar generation facilities, both at the operating level, the holding company level, and the super holding company level, acting for central clearing parties on liquidity facilities of various types, including by way of a syndicated repurchase and reverse repurchase transactions, acting for pension fund related commercial paper issuers and a financial institution on their backstop liquidity facilities, acting for lenders providing capital call facilities, subscription facilities, net asset value facilities and hybrid facilities to domestic and international private equity funds, acting for lenders on single lender and syndicated margin loans secured by significant blocks of public company securities, including in the context of a take-over bid, financing acquisitions of hydro-electric generation projects, financing a government payment stream relating to the cessation of coal powered generation, and, acting for lenders and borrowers on the financing of infrastructure projects in Canada and the United States. · Banking & Finance

Gordon Nettleton

Gordon Nettleton is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Oil & Gas Group and co-head of the National Environmental, Regulatory & Aboriginal Group. He specializes in energy regulatory, Aboriginal, environmental, and business law matters, and has significant experience in the regulation of oil & gas, including liquefied natural gas, pipelines and projects, and electricity industries. Gordon’s clients have included shippers on major pipelines and applicant pipeline companies seeking facilities and tolling approvals. He also has acted for Canada’s largest transmission and distribution utilities in respect of major rates revenue applications and facility expansion approvals. Gordon regularly appears before the Commission of the Canadian Energy Regulator (formerly the National Energy Board) and provincial regulatory tribunals including the Alberta Energy Regulator, the Alberta Utilities Commission, the Ontario Energy Board, the British Columbia Utilities Commission, and the New Brunswick Energy Utilities Board. · Oil & Gas

Grant Buchanan

Practice focuses on broadcast and telecom regulation and Copyright Board work. Broad understanding of the communications industry, related corporate documentation and the framework for broadcast and telecom regulation and financing. · Telecommunications

Gregory Winfield

Provides strategic legal advice with respect to retirement, health & welfare and other compensation plans. Recent focuses are on investments, DB plan freezes and innovative plan designs, governance and changes to retiree benefits. Advises on the treatment of benefit plans in M&A transactions, lending transactions and insolvencies; advises on private and public sector pension plans. Experience in litigating matters before pension regulatory authorities and provides pension expertise to McCarthy litigation team in pension class proceedings. Represented employer in connection with nation’s first Employee Life and Health Trust. Frequent speaker and writer on benefits topics, including Canadian contributor to first UNEP FI paper on ESG for Institutional Investors. · Pensions & Benefits

Hartley Lefton

Hartley Lefton is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Financial Services Group, including serving in Toronto as national co-chair of the Insurance and Reinsurance Group. He is recognized as a leading transactional, commercial, governance and regulatory/compliance advisor to financial sector participants operating in Canada, most notably insurers, reinsurers, insurance brokers, insurance adjusters, banks, credit unions, and FinTech/InsurTech companies. He leverages his insurance regulatory and transactional expertise, and his experience interacting with regulators, to ensure clients are not only aware of regulatory changes, but truly understand how regulation will impact each aspect of their business and manage risk, including acquisitions/divestitures, formation/licensing, product launches, financings, outsourcing, investment strategy, related party transactions, issues relating to capitalization and accounting standards, and joint ventures. Hartley has particular expertise assisting clients with regulatory inquiries and investigations. Hartley’s deep understanding of the financial services landscape in Canada, coupled with his diligence and resourcefulness, allows him to deliver practical insights that help global companies operating in Canada achieve their business objectives. · Insurance & Reinsurance

Heather Meredith

Practice focuses on commercial insolvency, restructuring, bankruptcy and related litigation. Experience in numerous complex Canadian corporate restructurings representing a wide variety of stakeholder groups, including debtors, secured creditors, court officers and landlords. Experience includes, the restructuring of 33 Yorkville, Halo, Clover, Rothmans, Benson and Hedges, U. S. Steel Canada, Bondfield Construction – related P3 projects, Arctic Glacier, Cash Store, Skyservice and Asset Backed Commercial Paper as well as the cross-border restructurings of Takata, SquareTwo and Elephant and Castle. · Insolvency & Restructuring

Ian Mak

Ian Mak is a partner in the Financial Services Group in Toronto. He has a corporate practice specializing in all aspects of leveraged finance, banking, and secured lending. Ian regularly advises Canadian banks and other major international institutional lenders and alternative capital providers in the negotiation and structuring of corporate and commercial credit facilities. In addition, he regularly acts for industry leading alternative asset managers, private equity funds, and other financial sponsors in the negotiation and structuring of complex debt arrangements in connection with leveraged buyouts, recapitalization transactions, mergers & acquisitions, and other strategic investments across diversified sectors including technology and infrastructure. Ian also has a deep understanding of the Canadian and US credit markets and regularly advises on complex cross-border transactions. · Banking & Finance

Isabelle Vendette

Isabelle Vendette is a partner in the firms’ Litigation Group in Montréal. Her practice focuses on corporate commercial litigation and civil litigation, as well as on internal investigations and cybersecurity. She regularly pleads before the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal. Her principal areas of expertise are injunctions, financial services litigation, securities, franchise litigation, privacy, ESG and contract disputes. Isabelle advises and represents some of the firm’s most important clients including financial institutions, telecommunication companies and other public and privately held corporations in complex and high-profile cases. She has led litigation files in various fields, including unfair competition, banking law, product liability, securities, consumer law, false or misleading advertising and in special remedies such as injunctions. Isabelle is a regular speaker at conferences, where she presents on trends in ESG-related securities litigation, commercial law, class actions, consumer law and cybersecurity. She is also a contributing author to the fifth edition of Defending Class Actions in Canada and to articles on injunction and data protection. · Litigation

Jacques Rousse

Partner based in Montréal, Mr. Rousse advises management in all matters with respect to human resources and executive compensation. In the event of litigation, he acts before arbitration boards, administrative tribunals and the civil courts in matters related to grievance arbitration, employment contracts, wrongful dismissals and human rights complaints. Mr. Rousse also appears before tribunals in matters concerning occupational health and safety, restrictive covenants and privacy law. Furthermore, he has acquired considerable experience in collective bargaining, as well as in labour and employment matters related to restructurings and mergers and acquisitions. He represents a wide number of private and public sector employers both unionized and non-unionized, including companies and organizations in the manufacturing, transportation, mining, financial, hospitality and service sectors. Mr. Rousse also assists physicians in matters of disciplinary and administrative law. · Employment & Labour