Lawyers in Canada
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Henry J. Chang
Partner
Dentons
Holly Reid
Holly has over 20 years of experience as a specialist in employment law, providing timely and practical advice to clients in respect of all laws relating to workplace issues. Holly regularly advises large private and publicly listed companies on matters of significant legal and reputational importance, including the negotiation of executive contracts, transitions within executive leadership teams, class action and other risks relating to changes to compensation and benefit plans, and incidents of sexual harassment, workplace violence and bullying. Holly provides advice on complex accommodation requests and disputes and has a particular expertise in accessibility law. Holly regularly coordinates employment law advice among employment lawyers in various Canadian jurisdictions for clients with employment law needs across Canada. She speaks and provides client training sessions on executive compensation, human rights, accessibility and employment law topics. As an advocate, Holly regularly represents employers in wrongful dismissal actions and human rights applications. A significant portion of Holly’s practice is devoted to advising on the employment and labour aspects of complex corporate transactions, including the drafting and negotiation of purchase agreements, retention and transaction bonus agreements, and commercial and employment restrictive covenant agreements. Holly also advises on post-closing human resources integration matters.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Hovsep Afarian
Hovsep Afarian is a recognized legal expert in the insurance industry. His expertise in insurance disputes is wide ranging, having acted in disputes involving D&O policies, cyber claims, fidelity bonds, E&O policies, CGL policies, property policies, life insurance policies, marine policies and environmental liability policies. Hovsep is a versatile, detail-oriented advocate with a proven record of success. He has appeared before all levels of Court across Canada as policyholder counsel and has been at the forefront of the developing cyber insurance industry. Hovsep has been involved in some of the largest and most significant insurance claims in Canadian history.
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
Howard Levine
Howard advises clients on a broad range of M&A, corporate and securities transactions, both nationally and internationally. His experience covers all aspects of securities and business law, including public offerings, private placements, counsel to special committees of boards of directors, take-over bids, reverse take-over bids, plans of arrangement, proxy battles, venture capital investments, private equity transactions and private acquisitions. He also represents clients in their dealings with the Canadian securities commissions and stock exchanges, as well as advising on continuous disclosure and corporate governance compliance. Howard's clientele ranges from start-up companies obtaining their first round of financing to larger, more established companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) or the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and includes investment dealers and private equity and pension funds. His clients operate in a wide range of industries, including mining, manufacturing, software, information technology, financial services, transaction processing, energy, telecommunications, biotechnology, health products, consumer products and entertainment. Howard is fluent in English and French and has a working knowledge of Hebrew.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Howard S. Silverman
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Hugh Lee
Partner
Cassidy Levy Kent LLP
Hugh Meighen
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Huw Evans
Huw Evans brings skilled deal acumen, strategic thinking, and a rigorous approach to advising institutional and other leading investors on their projects and complex transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Huw practises corporate law, with an emphasis on transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He regularly acts for infrastructure funds, pension funds and other infrastructure investors in connection with M&A transactions, joint ventures, project financings and developments. Huw has led numerous significant acquisitions and divestures of energy and infrastructure assets, including renewable power projects and PPP assets. In addition, he regularly advises clients in these industries on a broad range of corporate, securities and governance matters.
Torys
Ian A. Mondrow
Partner Energy Regulation and Policy
Gowling WLG
Ian Bendell
Ian Bendell is Chair of DLA Piper (Canada) LLP's Infrastructure and Projects Group and works of out of the firm's Toronto office. With almost 30 years in the international infrastructure market, Ian has extensive experience advising on international project financing and P3 transactions, particularly in public infrastructure. He specializes in advising project companies, equity sponsors, public authorities, banks and other financial institutions around the world on the procurement, financing and implementation of major infrastructure projects. While a partner at a City of London law firm, in addition to advising on other rail and rail related projects, Ian was one of three members of a core legal, technical and financial advisory team that advised the Dutch Government on the first High Speed Rail project to be procured as a public private partnership, the Dutch HSL Zuid project connecting Schiphol airport with the Dutch Belgian Border. In the early 2000s, Ian successfully closed the first Canadian acute healthcare PPP - the William Osler Health Centre - as the lead advisor to the hospital authority. Since closing the William Osler project, Ian has acted for the successful proponents on a wide range of projects that have achieved financial close in Canada and internationally, including some of the most high profile infrastructure projects in the North American market. In the social infrastructure sector, Ian has led teams that have closed multiple projects, including Alberta Schools 1 and 2 in September 2008 and April 2010, the Ontario Provincial Police Modernization Project in September 2010, the Forensic Services and Coroner's Complex Project in June 2010 and the North Island Hospitals Project in June 2014, the first infrastructure project to close utilizing a rated Green Bond structure. In the transportation sector, examples of projects Ian has led include the William R. Bennett Bridge Project in June 2005, the Kicking Horse Canyon Project in November 2005, the Golden Ears Bridge Project in March 2006, the Northeast Stoney Trail, Northwest Anthony Henday Drive and Northeast Anthony Henday Drive Projects in February 2007, July 2008 and May 2012, respectively, the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Project in February 2013, the Champlain Bridge and Eglinton LRT projects in June and July of 2015 and the Highway 427 Extension Project in March 2017. Ian spent significant time in 2017 and 2018 leading the team that advised Rideau Transit Group, the project entity carrying out the Confederation Line LRT project in Ottawa on issues related to the expansion of the Confederation Line, including closing the financing of the enhanced Belfast Maintenance and Storage Facility for additional vehicles required to provide service on the extended LRT line. In 2018/19, Ian travelled to Sydney for four months to act for Transport for New South Wales, the Government transit authority in New South Wales Australia, where he led the DLA team that in February 2018 closed the Regional Rail Project, a AUD $1.26 billion project to replace an aging train fleet and build a new maintenance facility. Ian is also currently advising Bermuda Airport Authority in relation to the redevelopment of its international airport facilities. Back in Canada, Ian acted for the winning joint venture that will operate and maintain the new Hurontario LRT system in Toronto, Ontario in a project that reached financial close in October 2019. In November of 2022, Ian led the team that closed the Ontario Line Rolling Stock, Systems, Operation and Maintenance Project in Toronto, Ontario, acting for the successful joint venture that will operate and maintain the new subway system. Ian is currently active on numerous rail projects in Canada, including acting for one of the shortlisted bidders for the new Ontario Line - Pape Tunnels and Underground Stations Project and working for the VIA HFR - Technical Office on the proposed High Frequency Rail project in the Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto rail corridor.
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Ian Mak
Ian Mak is a partner in the Financial Services Group in Toronto. He has a corporate practice specializing in all aspects of leveraged finance, banking, and secured lending. Ian regularly advises Canadian banks and other major international institutional lenders and alternative capital providers in the negotiation and structuring of corporate and commercial credit facilities. In addition, he regularly acts for industry leading alternative asset managers, private equity funds, and other financial sponsors in the negotiation and structuring of complex debt arrangements in connection with leveraged buyouts, recapitalization transactions, mergers & acquisitions, and other strategic investments across diversified sectors including technology and infrastructure. Ian also has a deep understanding of the Canadian and US credit markets and regularly advises on complex cross-border transactions.
McCarthy Tétrault
Ian Matthews
Partner, Commercial Litigation Group
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Ilan Dunsky
Partner
Dentons
Ilan Levy
Associate
Dentons
Iris Fischer
Iris’ practice includes complex commercial litigation, internal and government investigations and white-collar matters, constitutional and other public and administrative law cases, and competition and regulatory matters. Iris is the co-Practice Group Leader of the Toronto Litigation & Dispute Resolution group, leads the Blakes Media & Defamation practice and is also the co-leader of the Firm’s Public Sector Crisis & Compliance group Iris is a leading media & defamation lawyer, with related experience litigating privacy and access to information matters. Canadian and international media organizations frequently rely on Iris’s expertise in free expression and court openness matters, including defending libel claims, opposing publication bans and getting access to court documents. More generally, she specializes in cases in which online speech intersects with commercial, privacy or other interests. She also regularly deals with evolving laws around social media, technology, and online information. Iris represents multinational clients on government and internal investigations and enforcement matters, including in fraud, anti-corruption and Competition Act matters. She also investigates and litigates AML-related matters, including appeals of administrative decisions. Iris regularly advises clients on high stakes investigations and other matters where business meets government, including investigations involving government procurement issues or public-sector laws such as conflict of interest, lobbying and elections finance. She helps clients navigate a diverse range of matters ranging from Canada’s debarment regime, to commissions of inquiry, to Parliamentary committee studies.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Irwin Nathanson
Partner
Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson
Isabelle Desharnais
Partner and National Co-Leader, Insolvency & Restructuring Group
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Isabelle Vendette
Isabelle Vendette is a partner in the firms’ Litigation Group in Montréal. Her practice focuses on corporate commercial litigation and civil litigation, as well as on internal investigations and cybersecurity. She regularly pleads before the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal. Her principal areas of expertise are injunctions, financial services litigation, securities, franchise litigation, privacy, ESG and contract disputes. Isabelle advises and represents some of the firm’s most important clients including financial institutions, telecommunication companies and other public and privately held corporations in complex and high-profile cases. She has led litigation files in various fields, including unfair competition, banking law, product liability, securities, consumer law, false or misleading advertising and in special remedies such as injunctions. Isabelle is a regular speaker at conferences, where she presents on trends in ESG-related securities litigation, commercial law, class actions, consumer law and cybersecurity. She is also a contributing author to the fifth edition of Defending Class Actions in Canada and to articles on injunction and data protection.
McCarthy Tétrault
J. Kenneth McEwan KC
Ken McEwan is the managing partner of McEwan Partners, founded in 2017, twice recognized by Benchmark as Canadian Boutique of the Year, and three times as British Columbia Litigation Firm of the Year.
McEwan Partners
Jacqueline Chan
Jacqueline Chan is an intellectual property lawyer focused on advisory, transactional and litigation matters. Jacqueline co-chairs the Inclusion, Diversity & Equity Committee in the Toronto office, and regularly advises on pro-bono matters. She also sits on the Executive Committee of the Group of Racialized Ontario Women Litigators (GROWL). Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Master of Applied Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto. Prior to law school, she worked as a process improvement analyst at a major teaching hospital and a business analyst at a global technology consulting firm, where she advised clients on information privacy and security compliance.
Baker McKenzie
Jacqueline Rotondi
Jacqueline Rotondi practices commercial, regulatory, competition and international trade law as a member of Baker McKenzie's Global International Commercial and Trade Group.
Baker McKenzie
Jacqueline Shinfield
Jacqueline is co-lead of Blakes Financial Services Regulatory group. Jacqueline's practice focuses on all aspects of regulatory compliance in the retail financial services and payments industry at both the federal and provincial levels. She provides advice to regulated financial institutions, non-bank institutions, pay day loan companies, money services businesses, foreign exchange dealers, mobile payments service providers, and digital currency exchanges. She has extensive experience providing advice in respect of Canada's anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing legislation and Canadian sanctions legislation.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Jacques Bernier
While leading Baker McKenzie's Canadian tax practice, Jacques Bernier assists clients in resolving their Canadian tax controversies and litigating them before the courts. With his vast experience, Jacques handles large, complex and sensitive cases — sometimes "bet the company" cases — often bringing exceptional results to clients. He also provides strategic advice to a number of multinationals in their dealings with the Canadian tax authorities and is the relationship partner to many Firm clients meeting their tax needs in Canada and abroad. He is singled out for his transfer-pricing expertise and recognized as a leading practitioner in Chambers Global and Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Transfer Pricing Advisors, as well as being consistently recommended for corporate tax litigation by Canadian Lexpert Legal Directory. According to Chambers Global, Jacques is "very determined, pragmatic and knowledgeable" and the "go-to-guy" in Canada. Sources also say, "He's thoughtful, he's calm, he thinks of the entire journey and the objective. He's responsive, very professional and easy to talk to."
Baker McKenzie
Jacques Rousse
Partner based in Montréal, Mr. Rousse advises management in all matters with respect to human resources and executive compensation. In the event of litigation, he acts before arbitration boards, administrative tribunals and the civil courts in matters related to grievance arbitration, employment contracts, wrongful dismissals and human rights complaints. Mr. Rousse also appears before tribunals in matters concerning occupational health and safety, restrictive covenants and privacy law. Furthermore, he has acquired considerable experience in collective bargaining, as well as in labour and employment matters related to restructurings and mergers and acquisitions. He represents a wide number of private and public sector employers both unionized and non-unionized, including companies and organizations in the manufacturing, transportation, mining, financial, hospitality and service sectors. Mr. Rousse also assists physicians in matters of disciplinary and administrative law.
McCarthy Tétrault