Lawyers in Canada
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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.
McCarthy Tétrault
Danny Kaufer
Senior Counsel
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Danny Wakeling
Partner
Dentons
Dany Assaf
Involved in many of Canada’s highest-profile competition and foreign investment transactions, investigations and reviews, Dany brings seasoned advice and a long history of experience advising on all aspects of competition law and its practical administration to clients in Canada and internationally, including in the developing area of competition policy in big tech and digital innovation. Overview Dany is co-chair of the firm’s Competition and Foreign Investment Review Practice and advises international and domestic clients on all aspects of competition law and foreign investment matters, including in the area of national security reviews. Canadian and multinational clients rely on Dany’s advice on all aspects of competition law and foreign investment matters under the Investment Canada Act, including notably acting on the DuPont/Dow merger, the Supreme Court of Canada Tervita efficiencies case, the Interac case (Canadian bank payments system), GE/Honeywell and Rio Tinto/Alcan. Dany also advises clients in both the private and the public sectors on Middle East investment and capital market matters. He speaks both English and Arabic fluently.
Torys
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.
McCarthy Tétrault
Darryl Hiscocks
From day-to-day employment matters to critical scenarios, Darryl’s comprehensive employment experience cuts quickly to the heart of a matter and keeps the longer-term business impact for clients in view. Darryl practises in all areas of human resources and labour law, advising clients on the interpretation and application of all labour, employment, human rights, pay equity, privacy, employment standards, workers’ compensation, workplace safety and insurance, accessibility and occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation in both the private and public sectors. Darryl assists clients with all manner of human resources matters, including employee recruiting and hiring, executive compensation, discipline, drug and alcohol issues, individual and mass terminations, discharge, wrongful dismissal, unjust dismissal, departing employees (including with respect to employee common law and restrictive covenant obligations), workplace investigations, grievances, arbitrations, human rights applications, unfair labour practice complaints, workers’ compensation, OHS issues, and statutory complaints and applications. He also drafts and revises a wide variety of labour and employment documents, including employment contracts, employment policies and procedures, collective agreements and human rights documents (including discrimination, harassment and accommodation policies). Darryl has extensive experience advising employers in the labour and employment implications of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, and restructurings. He has worked with clients in a wide variety of industries and contexts, including service, retail, wholesale, pharmaceuticals, medical, technology, publishing, banking, finance, securities, insurance, automotive and others.
Torys
Darryl R. Antel, CFP®, TEP
Associate Areas of Practice Tax Planning Mergers & Acquisitions Corporate Tax Planning Farm Taxation Personal Tax Planning Non-profit & Charitable Organizations Estate Planning Corporate & Partnership Formation
Felesky Flynn LLP
David Allard
David practices primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial and corporate finance and securities law. David has extensive experience focused on advising private and public company clients on transactional and corporate commercial matters, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, as well as corporate governance issues. He works with clients at all stages of development, from senior public companies to startups and entrepreneurs, and represents clients across a variety of industries, particularly forestry, services and technology.
Lawson Lundell LLP
David Bish
David is one of Canada’s leading insolvency lawyers. He brings highly experienced counsel in insolvency and restructuring mandates, with a focus on creative solutions and practical perspective for clients navigating distressed circumstances. As the head of Torys’ Corporate Restructuring and Advisory Practice, David regularly advises across all aspects of bankruptcy, proposals, wind-ups, liquidations, reorganizations, restructurings, receiverships and security enforcement, and advising boards of directors on corporate governance issues in distressed circumstances. He has extensive expertise in plenary and ancillary cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters, and brings a wealth of experience to commercial financing, private equity and M&A transactions. David’s long track record as corporate and litigation counsel to a wide range of parties—leading corporations, financial institutions, distressed investors and accounting firms—gives him a nuanced perspective of stakeholder interests on large, complex insolvency and restructuring transactions, helping clients navigate challenges and advance their business objectives.
Torys
David Bishop
Partner
Gowling WLG
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.
McCarthy Tétrault
David Budd
David Budd* (he/him/his) is a partner in the firm’s Mining, Banking & Specialty Finance, and Sports & Entertainment Groups and serves clients from both the Toronto and Vancouver offices. He has worked extensively with both lenders and resource companies in the mining sector on a variety of unsecured and senior secured debt facilities. He regularly acts for both lenders and borrowers on domestic and multi-jurisdictional transactions with an emphasis on corporate credit facilities, acquisitions, and project finance matters, including the financing of mines, hotels, and other real property developments. David offers extensive experience in sports law having provided advice with respect to the acquisition and financing of professional sports franchises. In addition, he has experience with respect to financing (acting for lenders and borrowers) across a broad range of industries including retail, retirement lifestyle, transportation, recycling and waste management, financial services and hospitality. Learn more.
Cassels
David Bursey
Partner and Co-Head of Aboriginal Law Practice
Bennett Jones LLP
David Christian
Partner
Thorsteinssons LLP
David Cuschieri
David is the co-head of the Calgary Energy group. David has a long track record working with clients in their corporate and commercial work, including domestic and international energy, oil and gas, power and related infrastructure transactions. His extensive experience includes advising on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, partnerships, and project development. David’s robust experience spans the ecosystem of energy and infrastructure transactions, including all aspects of private M&A in various other industries, working closely with both energy and infrastructure companies as well as a wide range of private and publicly traded issuers, pension funds, private equity and other institutional investors.
Torys
David Di Paolo
National Managing Partner and CEO of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
David F.W. Cohen
Partner Leader, Financial Institutions & Services Group (Canada)
Gowling WLG
David Feldman
David is a Partner at Blakes, based in Toronto. David specializes in negotiating complex commercial arrangements relating to payments / credit cards, loyalty programs, other financial products and services, software, cloud services, technology, digital transformation, outsourcing, and strategic partnerships. David has experience working with clients in a variety of different industries, including banking and financial services, insurance, power, oil and gas, mining, and retail.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
David Gadsden
David Gadsden represents global clients in complex commercial disputes. He is the Chair of Baker McKenzie's Canadian Class Actions Group and is known for his sound advice on commercial class actions, competition and antitrust matters, arbitration, fraud cases and product liability matters. Clients value David's pragmatic and determined approach to disputes and have described him as "absolutely terrific at bringing across the finish line the most complex and multidimensional issues". David has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation, Legal 500, Best Lawyers Canada, and Lexpert’s annual Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers. He has previously been recognized by Lexpert as a Rising Star.
Baker McKenzie
David Kolesar
David Kolesar is a partner in the Banking & Specialty Finance Group at Cassels. With a practical approach informed by a long history of experience representing clients in banking and finance matters, David is skilled in both domestic and cross-border, internationally focused transactions. Learn more.
Cassels
David Kruse
David's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate law, providing strategic advice on many of Canada's largest and most complex transactions. He also regularly advises private equity sponsors on cross-border mid-market acquisitions and dispositions. In addition, David advises foreign companies on establishing and structuring their Canadian investments and operations. His experience includes structuring and negotiating various domestic and cross-border commercial arrangements, including joint venture, shareholder, partnership and commercial agreements. David formerly served as the Practice Group Leader of the Blakes Corporate & Commercial group in Toronto. David’s recent representative M&A transactions include advising GMS on its US$5.5-billion sale to The Home Depot, Smucker subsidiary Hostess on its US$305-million divestiture of the Voortman brand to Second Nature Brands, a CapVest Partners portfolio company, Atlantic Street Capital’s portfolio company CyberGuard on its acquisition of Control Gap, Gauge Capital on its strategic investment in AGT Robotics, and The Walter Group on its acquisition of assets and formation of the Professional Women’s Hockey League.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
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.
McCarthy Tétrault
David Little
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
David Longcroft
Partner, Commercial Real Estate
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP