Lawyers in Canada
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Eileen McMahon
Eileen’s market-leading experience, practical advice and industry insight in intellectual property and regulatory law make her a go-to advisor for clients in Canada and the United States. Chair of Torys’ Intellectual Property and Food and Drug Regulatory practices, Eileen is one of a handful of Canadian lawyers who advise on regulatory clearance and intellectual property protection of products. Across sectors—including life sciences, agribusiness, regenerative medicine and stem cells, cannabis and more—Eileen helps clients identify IP and regulatory assets, obtain and maintain market exclusivity, exploit IP assets and enforce their IP rights. Eileen is a registered patent and trademark agent in the United States and Canada and is adroit at navigating the issues at play in cross-border matters. She is also a Certified Licensing Professional of the Licensing Executive Society (LES) (2011-2014), United States and Canada. This certification is issued only to persons who have met the requirements for licensing professionals, established by CLP, Inc., under the guidance of the LES. Fewer than 1% of all attorneys have this certification, making Eileen a specialized resource for clients.
Torys
Eleni Kassaris
Partner
Dentons
Eli Monas
Eli’s practice focuses on corporate law and regulatory issues relating to financial institutions, advising both Canadian and international financial institution clients. With industry experience, including a six-month secondment to the Legislation and Approvals Division at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions in 2017-18, Eli brings particular knowledge of bank and insurance regulation, consumer protection and payments to his counsel.
Torys
Elizabeth Brown
Elizabeth Brown is one of Canada’s leading pension, benefits, and executive compensation lawyers, bringing more than 30 years of practice experience to her role as a founding partner of BMKP Law LLP. She advises public‑sector/broader‑public‑sector, and private‑sector employers, plan sponsors, and administrators on defined benefit, defined contribution, and jointly sponsored pension plans, as well as group benefit arrangements. Elizabeth’s expertise includes complex multi-party plan design and funding matters, major plan restructurings; administration, governance, fiduciary duties, regulatory compliance, plan design, major plan restructuring, mergers, wind‑ups, de‑risking strategies, and pension litigation. She is counsel to the Employer Sponsor of the University Pension Plan Ontario. Elizabeth was recently appointed to the OMERS Sponsors Corporation Board of Directors — serving on the Corporate Governance & Risk Committee and the Plan Design Committee — and to the National Ballet School Board of Directors. She is recognized by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, Lexpert, and the Lexology Index, and is the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association’s 2017 Award of Excellence in Pensions and Benefits Law.
BMKP Law
Elizabeth Burton
Partner Financial Services Practice Group Leader (Calgary)
Gowling WLG
Elizabeth Mayer
Elizabeth Mayer is a member of the firm’s Projects, Energy and Infrastructure, Public Affairs, and Construction Groups. Elizabeth has particular experience in procurement matters, acting both on the public and private sector sides. Elizabeth brings a depth of experience to PPP projects, having advised the Province of British Columbia on two of the earliest PPP projects in Canada. Subsequently she has acted for bidders, contractors, lenders and public authorities on a wide range of projects, including advising the Province of British Columbia on the Abbotsford Law Courts Project, leading teams in closing the Surrey Pre Trial Centre and Billy Bishop Airport Pedestrian Tunnel projects and playing a significant role in closing the Champlain Bridge replacement project in Montreal. She understands the complexities of the PPP model and is therefore able to provide clear, commercial advice. Elizabeth also continues to act in relation to many projects during construction and into operation. This work has included dealing with contract changes, advising on subcontracting, dealing with delay claims and other contentious matters. In addition to her experience at the firm, Elizabeth was the lead counsel acting for the Province of British Columbia on the Okanagan Lake Bridge and Phase 2 of the Kicking Horse Canyon projects. She advised the Province on all aspects of the projects, including procurement, negotiating the project agreements with the successful proponents and co-ordinating commercial and financial close. She also acted for the Province in a number of other partnering arrangements, including the contracting out of the line painting services for BC highways. While working for Government, she has gained experience in a range of public law matters, such as freedom of information, privacy and data protection and vires. Elizabeth has considerable experience in tendering and other procurement matters, including advising both public and private sector clients on procurement strategy, drafting conditions of tender and requests for proposals, and the evaluation process. She has also advised on procurement disputes. Elizabeth is used to working as part of multi-disciplinary teams, providing both legal advice and a practical approach to meeting clients’ needs.
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Elizabeth Williams
Managing Partner, Calgary Office
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ellie Kang
With a wide-ranging employment and compensation practice, Ellie has substantial experience helping private equity investors and their portfolio companies, venture capital investors and emerging companies, as well as public companies, investment managers, boards of directors and management teams, on the design and implementation of complex executive compensation and employee benefits programs, including advising on ERISA matters. Ellie focuses her practice on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefit matters arising in mergers and acquisitions. She has considerable experience with executive compensation and employee benefit due diligence; negotiation of benefit and compensation-related representations, warranties, covenants and other related provisions in transaction agreements; treatment of outstanding equity compensation awards; 280G “golden parachute” analysis and related shareholder approval documentation; and post-closing integration and design of employee benefit and compensation programs. In addition to her transactional work, Ellie regularly advises clients on the design and implementation of various executive compensation arrangements, including employment, severance, change of control and retention agreements, as well as equity-based incentive awards, such as stock options, restricted shares, phantom stock, appreciation rights and profits interests. She also has experience with ERISA and employee benefit matters arising in financing arrangements representing both lenders and borrowers; public company executive compensation disclosure matters; 409A and 457A non-qualified deferred compensation design and compliance; and retirement and welfare benefit plan design and compliance. Ellie regularly advises investment managers, fund sponsors, retirement plan investors and other financial market participants on ERISA matters, including with regard to advice regarding fiduciary duties, prohibited transaction rules, and ESG and proxy voting considerations. Ellie is fluent in Korean and conversant in French.
Torys
Emily Chan
Of Counsel
Norton Rose Fulbright
Emily Hansen
Partner
Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson
Emily Kirkpatrick
Partner Emily Kirkpatrick maintains a general civil litigation and administrative practice, with a particular focus on corporate, commercial and class action matters.
McEwan Partners
Emily O’Donohue
Counsel
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Emma Costante
Emma is a corporate lawyer advising domestic and international clients on a range of business matters, including financings, mergers and acquisitions, go-public events, complex shareholder negotiations, corporate governance, commercial transactions, joint ventures and partnerships. Emma's practice covers a broad range of sectors and industries, including life sciences, health care, SaaS, AI and quantum computing, clean tech, and natural resources. A large part of Emma’s practice focuses on supporting innovative growth companies and particularly in the life science industry. She helps create negotiated solutions among stakeholders, including founder exits, government contracts and complex shareholder agreements.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Emma Irving
Partner
Dentons
Emmanuel Sala
Emmanuel Sala is a partner in North America's Tax Practice Group in Toronto. He has broad experience advising Canadian and foreign companies on complex domestic and international tax matters with respect to mergers, tax reorganizations, financing transactions and acquisitions. He also represents taxpayers at all stages of tax disputes with the Canadian tax authorities. Since 2012, Emmanuel has been teaching at the Master of Laws (taxation) program jointly sponsored by HEC Montréal and the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal. He has also written and presented papers on a number of income tax subjects at various conferences and seminars across Canada. As Emmanuel is a lawyer as well as a chartered professional accountant (CPA), his clients have the benefit of leveraging his ability to provide thorough legal tax analyses and to discuss financial, accounting and economic principles on any tax-related matter.
Baker McKenzie
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.
McCarthy Tétrault
Emrys Davis
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Eric Buist
Eric Buist is an associate in the Business Law Group at Cassels and a member of the firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Group. Eric advises on all aspects of Canadian Competition and foreign investment review law, including mergers and 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
Eric Bédard
Partner
Woods LLP
Eric Goneau
Eric's aviation practice focuses on a broad range of matters related to aviation finance, leasing and regulatory compliance. Eric also acts as Secretary for the Canadian Bar Association’s Air & Space Law Section. Eric is a member of the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario, and co-teaches an intensive business law class in the Law Practice Program (French) at the University of Ottawa.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Eric Lung
Partner
Dentons
Eric Mayzel
Eric Mayzel is a partner in the Litigation Group at Cassels. Eric’s practice focuses on intellectual property, including copyright, trademark, trade secrets, and entertainment matters, as well as the resolution of franchise law disputes, including rescission claims. Eric prioritizes a strategic and practical approach to litigation based on an understanding of each client’s goals. Learn more.
Cassels
Eric Moncik
Eric's practice focuses primarily on public and private financings, and mergers and acquisitions. He also provides ongoing advice on general securities and corporate law matters to a variety of issuer clients. Eric has acted as counsel to issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in a significant number of public financings and private placements of equity and debt securities. He has also acted for purchasers and vendors in a wide range of asset and share purchase transactions, and for many issuers in connection with statutory arrangements, take-over bids and reorganizations. These transactions have primarily involved REITs as well as issuers in the financial services, communications and media and technology sectors.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Erica Shadeed
Partner
Dentons