Lawyers in Canada

Graham Walker

National Group Head, Specialized Disputes

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

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.

McCarthy Tétrault

Greg Allen

Partner

Allen McMillan Litigation Counsel

Greg Hollingsworth

Greg is both a lawyer and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) who practices in the areas of business law, mergers and acquisitions, and taxation. Greg’s combined legal, taxation and accounting background enables him to advise clients on both the commercial and taxation aspects of transactions. Clients and their financial advisers particularly value his unique ability to converse with them at a high level on financial and accounting matters. A significant part of Greg’s practice is focused on the formation of private equity funds and M&A transactions involving private equity funds. Greg is the head of Lawson Lundell’s Private Equity Group and is recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2023) as ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in the area of Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity law. He acts for a number of private equity clients including CAI Capital Partners, Highland West Capital, Lighthouse Equity Partners, Fulcrum Capital Partners Inc. (formerly, HSBC Capital (Canada) Inc.), Parallel49 Equity (formerly Tricor Pacific Capital Inc.), Stern Partners, Beedie Capital Partners, Yellow Point Equity Partners, Breakwater Management LP, Arviat Equity Partners, and Headland Capital Partners, Greg has acted for both CVCA ‘Deal of the Year’ award recipients (2007, 2014 and 2022) and ACG Vancouver ‘Deal of the Year’ award recipients (2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019). Greg qualified as a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) in 1988 while working with Ernst & Young in Toronto. He joined Lawson Lundell in 1992 and worked in both the Business Law and Tax Groups of the firm until 1999. Between 1999 and 2004, Greg worked in Dublin, Ireland with William Fry, Solicitors, one of Ireland’s top corporate-commercial law firms, where he practiced both corporate-commercial and taxation law in the Technology and Taxation Groups of the firm. His practice in Ireland focused primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and inbound and outbound investment. Greg re-joined Lawson Lundell in 2005 upon his return to Canada.

Lawson Lundell LLP

Greg Johnson

Partner

Bennett Jones LLP

Greg Kanargelidis

Kanargelidis Global Trade & Customs Law

Greg McNab

Partner

Dentons

Greg Umbach

Greg is recommended by domestic and international property owners, developers, investors and lenders in all matters relating to real estate in British Columbia, Canada. He has experience in transactions involving buying, selling, leasing, financing and development of commercial real estate relating to shopping centres, hotels, apartment buildings, office buildings, industrial properties and resource development in power and mining projects. Greg also acts for developers of commercial developments and large projects. He also provides day-to-day legal advice for landlords and tenants.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Gregory Fleetwood

Partner

MLT Aikins LLP

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.

McCarthy Tétrault

Gus Karantzoulis

Partner

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Guy Poitras

Partner Head of Litigation, Montréal

Gowling WLG

Guy Pratte

Senior Counsel

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Gwen Watson

With extensive experience and a practical mindset, Gwen gives clients strategic insight and guidance on their challenging and complex tax matters. Gwen provides comprehensive income tax advice to corporations, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations, including butterfly and bump transactions. Highly experienced in complex transactions, Gwen regularly advises on the income tax aspects of cross-border and capital markets transactions, derivatives and financial instruments, and has extensive knowledge of the application of Canadian foreign affiliate rules.

Torys

Haran Viswanathan

Haran Viswanathan is a partner in the Corporate Transactions Practice Group in Baker McKenzie’s Toronto office. Haran is a member of the Student Recruitment Committee for the Toronto office and an active participant in the Firm’s Pro Bono initiative.

Baker McKenzie

Harinder Basra

Partner

Bennett Jones LLP

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.

McCarthy Tétrault

Hazel Saffery

Partner

Dentons

Heather Doi

Partner

Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson

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.

McCarthy Tétrault

Heidi E. Clark

Partner

Dentons

Helen Park

Partner

Dentons

Helen T. Newland

Partner

Dentons

Henry Bian

Henry provides strategic intellectual property advice for a wide variety of clients, including cannabis clients, in the acquisition, enforcement and exploitation of all forms of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs, trade secrets and plant breeders’ rights. He is also a registered patent agent, and assists his clients in obtaining patents in areas such as synthetic biology, extraction and purification processes, chemical synthesis, consumer packaged goods, and software patents. He is also a co-inventor on a patent family related to the use of the rare cannabinoid cannabichromene (CBC). Henry previously worked as an in-house counsel at Cronos Group Inc., a NASDAQ-listed cannabis company, where he provided strategic advice on advertising issues, IP licensing, evaluating IP risks, protecting technologies and brands in a complex and dynamic regulatory environment. He worked extensively with the research and development team there and has gained extensive technical insights into science of cannabis, including biosynthesis, plant breeding and propagation techniques, chemical synthesis and extraction, product development and formulation (such as vapes and edibles), and device design. Henry was a featured speaker at the Global Cannabis Intellectual Property Symposium 2023, where he spoke on intellectual property issues facing in-house counsel.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP