Lawyers in Canada

Geoff Adair

Geoff specializes in corporate and commercial litigation. He has experience advising clients from a wide range of industries, with a special focus on complex construction disputes, negligent design and manufacture litigation, financial services litigation, and oil and gas litigation. Geoff has significant trial, appellate, and arbitration experience. He has served as counsel before the Alberta Court of Justice, the Court of King's Bench of Alberta, the Court of Appeal of Alberta, the Federal Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal. Geoff also has experience in alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration, mediation, and judicial dispute resolution.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

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.

McCarthy Tétrault

Geoffrey Belsher

Geoff is Chair of Blakes and one of Canada’s leading M&A, corporate governance, and corporate finance lawyers. As Chair, he is responsible for the Firm’s overall strategic vision, market strategies and significant client relationships. In his practice, Geoff advises Canadian, U.S. and international public and private companies, investment dealers, private equity, venture capital and alternative investment funds, and family offices with respect to Canadian law matters. Geoff frequently acts as special counsel to boards of directors and special committees in M&A, governance, shareholder activism and internal investigation matters. He advises clients operating in a range of industries, including financial services, mining, energy, media, life sciences, technology and gaming. Geoff has worked in the Firm’s Toronto, Vancouver and New York offices.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Geoffrey Mowatt

Geoff is the Co-Lead of the Blakes Intellectual Property Litigation group, with a practice that focuses on patent litigation in the pharmaceutical, chemical, biotech and oil & gas fields. Geoff is known for his pragmatic approach to sensitive disputes, providing strategic and business-savvy counselling on complex matters across various industries. Geoff is an experienced trial counsel who is adept at handling all aspects of patent litigation, from pre-litigation opinions to appearing before the Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal and provincial courts. He works closely with counsel around the world to coordinate the Canadian side of multi-jurisdictional lawsuits. His experience with proceedings under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations includes patent disputes related to innovative small-molecule drugs, biologics, formulations and dosage forms. Geoff’s practice in trademark litigation and procurement includes providing opinions and advice on freedom to operate, brand strategy and general trademark litigation. He is a certified specialist in patent law and a registered patent and trademark agent. Geoff has spoken and written extensively on IP litigation and legal developments related to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical devices.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Geoffrey Stenger

Partner and Head of Infrastructure Industry Team

Bennett Jones LLP

George Avraam

George practices trial and appellate litigation. He has appeared as lead counsel at the Supreme Court of Canada and at every level of court in Ontario. He has also represented clients throughout the country, as well as before arbitration panels and administrative tribunals. His practice focuses on high stakes matters, including: Complex labour and employment litigation, including class actions; Administrative and public law matters, including Charter cases; Fraud and breach of fiduciary duty litigation; Commercial disputes before the courts and arbitrators; and Shareholder and partnership disputes. As a trusted advisor to Boards and executive teams, George also provides strategic counsel on sensitive matters that range from cross-border disputes and investigations to crisis management.

Baker McKenzie

George Reid

Partner

Bennett Jones LLP

Gerry Stobo

Senior Counsel

Cassidy Levy Kent LLP

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.

McCarthy Tétrault

Gilbert Hourani

Partner

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Gillian Dingle

A sophisticated and business-minded litigator with deep market insight, Gillian guides clients through the legal and regulatory developments on matters ranging from securities litigation to class actions. Gillian is the practice group leader for Torys’ litigation department and co-head of the firm’s securities defence practice. Her practice focuses on securities litigation and corporate disputes. On the securities side of her practice, Gillian frequently acts for capital market participants in securities class actions, professional liability claims and regulatory investigations involving the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, the Mutual Fund Dealers’ Association and the Ontario Securities Commission. As a complement to her securities regulatory work, she advises financial institutions on investigations involving consumer protection matters. Gillian also maintains an active commercial litigation practice, representing corporations in contested transaction matters, shareholder disputes, breach of contract claims and other business torts. She has appeared as counsel in all levels of court in Ontario, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Yukon Court of Appeal.

Torys

Glen Johnson

A leading lawyer in his field, Glen has a wealth of securities regulatory knowledge and capital markets experience guiding major underwriters and issuers in their domestic and cross-border equity and debt finance matters. Glen regularly guides clients in their securities regulation and corporate finance matters, particularly in the area of domestic and cross-border securities offerings. He works with clients on a wide range of public equity and debt offerings, private placements and M&A transactions, with a particular emphasis on structured products. Glen also counsels Canadian issuers and securities industry participants on regulatory compliance matters, including listings, governance and disclosure issues and regulation of market participants in Canada.

Torys

Glenn Solomon

JSS Barristers

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.

McCarthy Tétrault

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.

McCarthy Tétrault

Gordon Chambers

Gordon Chambers is a partner in the Mining Group at Cassels. Gordon advises on all aspects of securities law, including public and private offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions (including takeover bids and going private transactions) and continuous disclosure and other ongoing regulatory requirements applicable to public companies. He also advises special committees of boards of directors. Gordon acts for a wide range of clients in diverse industries. He focuses on corporate finance for mining companies and has extensive experience advising dual-listed issuers. Gordon has acted for mining issuers, forestry companies, financial institutions and industrial issuers. He has served as the independent chair for contested shareholder meetings and has been a director of three public companies. Learn more.

Cassels

Gordon Goodman

Gordon Goodman is a partner in the Insurance & Reinsurance Group at Cassels. Gordon focuses on providing corporate and regulatory advice to insurance clients, including advice with respect to corporate governance, transactions, licensing and other regulatory matters. Gordon’s clients include life and general insurance companies, insurance agents and brokers, reinsurance companies and other financial services clients. Gordon’s practice involves mergers and acquisitions, portfolio transfers, demutualization, corporate reorganizations, formation of insurers, federal and provincial licensing, corporate governance, compliance matters and working with regulators. He regularly provides advice on insurance policies, reinsurance contracts and other types of agreements, and assists clients with product development and distribution issues. Gordon has also advised insurance clients in connection with the establishment and operation of captive insurers, reciprocal insurance exchanges and other risk retention and transfer structures. Learn more.

Cassels

Gordon L. Tarnowsky KC

Partner

Dentons

Gordon McKee

Gord is a leading lawyer in class action and product liability defence, and life sciences product liability litigation. He has defended leading multinational manufacturers and their Canadian affiliates in class actions, mass torts and serious personal injury claims across the country involving a variety of products including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, medical devices, automotive equipment and fire protection systems, consumer protection matters, toxic torts and other matters. Gord has considerable class action trial experience, and manages litigation nationally for some of the world's largest manufacturers of pharmaceutical medicines, medical devices, consumer goods and heavy equipment. Gord leads the Blakes Class Actions and Product Liability teams.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

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.

McCarthy Tétrault

Gordon W. Flynn, FCPA, FCA KC

Counsel Areas of Practice Tax Planning Estate Planning Corporate Tax Planning Management Personal Tax Planning Tax Compliance

Felesky Flynn LLP

Graeme Hamilton

Partner and National Leader, White Collar Criminal Defence & Corporate Investigations Group

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Graham Ragan

Partner

Gowling WLG

Graham Rawlinson

A leading real estate lawyer, Graham brings decades of experience helping clients navigate the real estate industry through business-minded counsel focused on optimal opportunities and outcomes for clients. Co-head of Torys’ Commercial Real Estate Practice, Graham is known for his extensive experience in commercial real estate and infrastructure transactions, including real estate joint ventures, acquisitions, divestitures, project finance, development, leasing, construction and secured lending. Graham regularly acts for public and private businesses in some of their most complex and transformational real estate transactions. He brings market insight and real estate experience through his longstanding work in the seniors housing, retail, office and hospitality sectors.

Torys