Lawyers in Canada
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David M.A. Amato
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
David Macaulay
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
David P. Konkin
Senior Associate
Dentons
David Palumbo
David Palumbo is a partner and Chair of the Corporate Transactions Practice Group in Baker McKenzie's Toronto office. David is a member of the Firm's North American Capital Markets Steering Committee and Global Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Committee. He serves as Chair of the Board of the You Can Play Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the inclusion of all in sports. In 2023, David was named as one of Canada's Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers by Canadian Lawyer Magazine.
Baker McKenzie
David Redford
David Redford is a partner in the Securities Group at Cassels. David’s practice focuses primarily on corporate and securities law, including capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and finance transactions. David has represented clients in numerous public and private debt and equity securities offerings, corporate acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and other corporate and commercial transactions. He also advises on securities regulatory reporting and compliance. David works extensively with mineral resource issuers and has developed a broad depth of experience in respect of the requirements of National Instrument 43-101 and the securities law requirements for mineral resource issuers. Learn more.
Cassels
David Redmond
David Redmond is a partner in the Real Estate & Development Group at Cassels. David’s practice encompasses all types of commercial real estate transactions. He has a sophisticated commercial mortgage lending practice acting for institutional lenders dealing with all types of financing for commercial properties, including multi-residential, office, shopping centre and industrial developments. David also has extensive experience in purchase and sale transactions, financing and structuring of real estate transactions, commercial leasing, joint ventures and co-ownerships, dealing with REITs and work involving all asset classes in the commercial real estate field. He is recognized as a leader in his field by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Legal500 Canada, and Chambers Canada which notes that clients consider him a “go-to guy for larger, more complex deals.” Learn more.
Cassels
David Rotchtin
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
David Seville
With broad experience leading capital markets transactions on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border and internationally, David brings legal acumen and market insights to help move clients’ goals and business strategy forward. David is co-head of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice and has extensive experience advising issuers and underwriters on domestic and cross-border equity and debt public offerings and private placements. He regularly advises clients on continuous disclosure, corporate governance and financial institution regulatory matters. David has deep experience with financial institution regulatory capital instruments, including limited recourse capital notes, the bank recapitalization (bail-in) regime by the Government of Canada, and non-viability contingent capital (NVCC) instruments. David also has substantial experience advising public companies, family offices, private equity and pension funds on acquisitions, dispositions, shareholder arrangements and reorganizations.
Torys
David Steinberg
Partner
Dentons
David Tupper
David's practice involves all aspects of corporate/commercial litigation with an emphasis on securities law, construction law, arbitration, insurance law, environmental law, and energy law. He regularly appears before all levels of courts in Alberta as well as in the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal. He also has a considerable advisory practice in the insurance and reinsurance area. He acts as counsel in an array of high-value and high-profile matters.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
David Wood
David has been involved in Alberta’s electricity sector since 1997 and has experience in all aspects of both the regulated and the unregulated electricity sectors, including utility rates, cost of capital, market rules, reliability standards and energy price-setting plans, transmission, distribution, generation and cogeneration facilities, industrial systems, merchant transmission, and generation and market surveillance investigations. He also regularly advises on disputes under Alberta’s legislated Power Purchase Arrangements. David also has extensive experience in the regulated oil and gas industries, including occupational health and safety, facility licensing, off-target penalties, pooling, common processor, common carrier, public consultation, emergency response plans, surface rights, rate regulation and facility regulation, new pipeline facilities, conversion of existing facilities, regulation of storage facilities, as well as sweet and sour gas wells, plants and pipelines. In environmental matters, David’s experience includes advising clients on environmental assessments, regulatory approvals and appeals, reclamation and remediation, brownfield development, emissions and environmental litigation. He has experience litigating, mediating and arbitrating a wide range of commercial and energy matters, including disputes related to shareholder disputes, directors’ and officers’ liability, securities, "poison pills," product liability, and royalty, leasing, joint venture, co-ownership and other contractual disputes. David has appeared before numerous regulatory tribunals, including the National Energy Board, Alberta Utilities Commission, Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board, Alberta Securities Commission, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board. He has also appeared in all levels of courts in Alberta, trial courts in British Columbia and Ontario, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Torys
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.
McCarthy Tétrault
Davit Akman
Davit Akman is a partner in the Business Law Group at Cassels and Chair of the firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Group. A leader in his field, he advises market-leading domestic and international firms on all aspects of Canadian competition and foreign investment review law, including mergers & acquisitions, cartels and other criminal matters, private actions (including class actions), advertising and marketing practices, abuse of dominance and other reviewable trade practices. Learn more.
Cassels
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.
McCarthy Tétrault
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.
McCarthy Tétrault
Deborah Cushing
Deborah practises labour and employment law, advising clients on a range of matters including wrongful dismissal, employment standards, business immigration, labour relations, and human rights issues. Deborah attended law school following a career in human resources. She worked in labour relations in the public sector followed by experience as an employee relations manager in the financial industry. Deborah works with clients in a wide range of sectors including mining, retail, hospitality, health care, government and non-profit.
Lawson Lundell LLP
Deepshikha Dutt
Partner and co-lead of the National Professional Liability subgroup
Dentons
Denes Rothschild
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Denise Alba
Senior Associate
Dentons
Dennis L. Picco KC
Partner
Dentons
Dennis Mahony
A leading lawyer in his field, Dennis has specialized knowledge in environmental law. From regulatory compliance to courtroom advocacy, Dennis works closely with clients on bespoke tactics to mitigate risk and maximize opportunity in environmental matters impacting clients’ operations, projects and transactions. Dennis is the head of Torys’ Environmental, Health and Safety Practice, the Co-Chair of the firm’s interdisciplinary Climate Change and Emissions Trading Practice, and certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Environmental Law. Dennis provides comprehensive environmental, health and safety advice to a broad range of public- and private-sector clients, including public and private companies, federal government agencies, Crown corporations, provincial bodies and municipalities. The scope of his counsel covers virtually every industrial sector: transportation, utilities, non-renewable and renewable energy, pulp and paper, mining, chemicals and plastics, water and waste water treatment and disposal, manufacturing, financial institutions and real estate development. On projects, Dennis works alongside developers, lenders, technical consultants, regulators and other project stakeholders to plan, develop, permit and defend complex projects, often through sensitive environmental habitats. He regularly advises from the project planning stage through the approval and construction stages and into operation. His broad advice to clients spans regulatory compliance, major and minor environmental assessment and other approvals, strategic stakeholder management, and litigation before environmental tribunals and courts. Over the past several years, Dennis and various Torys teams have successfully advised and defended more major projects than any other environmental team in the country. Dennis also assists buyers, sellers, lenders and investors through all environmental aspects of a transaction: from acquisition diligence and agreement negotiation, to the design and coordination of deal-specific environmental liability assessments, negotiation of agreements and in handling closing and post-closing details. Dennis has a broad regulatory practice that involves technical and strategic advice spanning the full range of issues in the environmental, health and safety field. In particular, he advises on federal and provincial environmental assessments and other approvals, contaminated sites, quasi-criminal, civil and administrative liability assessments, transportation of dangerous goods and waste, climate change, general legal compliance, legislative initiatives and Canada-U.S. cross-border issues. His work regularly involves litigation, covering environmental assessment and approval hearings, appeals of administrative orders, quasi criminal defence work and civil litigation. With respect to climate change and emissions trading, Dennis helps clients navigate through this evolving area, including keeping them informed on the numerous domestic and international developments in the area and working on project-specific teams for everything from assessing securities disclosure requirements to emissions trading.
Torys
Dennis R. Wiebe
Partner
Dentons
Derek W. Levinsky
Partner
Dentons
Derrick R. Hosanna
Partner Areas of Practice Tax Planning Mergers & Acquisitions Corporate Tax Planning Audits & CRA Proposals Personal Tax Planning Objections Estate Planning Tax Litigation
Felesky Flynn LLP