Lawyers in Canada
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Jordan Schultz
Partner and Vancouver co-leader of Dentons' Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy group
Dentons
Joseph Garcia
Joseph focuses on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He advises public and private companies and financial institutions. Joseph has extensive expertise in advising on domestic and cross border transactions, including public offerings, take-over and issuer bids, private equity and venture capital financings, private and public mergers and acquisitions, and as independent counsel to boards of directors. He has recently advised AbCellera, Zymeworks, Xenon, enGene, NervGen, Orpyx, Eupraxia, Alpha-9, Notch, adMare BioInnovations and Essa Pharma. Joseph is a director emeritus of LifeSciences BC. Joseph is a former director of the Canadian Glycomics Network (National Centre of Excellence) and Genome BC., and a member of the BIOTECanada Legal Affairs Advisory Board. He is a director of Science World and a member of the Canadian Bar Association.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Joseph Grignano
Joseph practises real estate law with a specialization in commercial leasing matters. He acts for several prominent owners, developers and tenants, and has worked on transactions that have been awarded "Deal of the Year" honours by the National Association of Office and Industrial Properties (NAIOP). He has also worked on transactions that have been reported as the largest commercial lease transactions in the city of Toronto for the year in which they were completed.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Joseph McArthur KC
Joe practices as counsel in domestic and international arbitration proceeding and Canadian court proceedings. As an experienced trial and arbitration counsel he has represented both public and private companies in various industries, including mining, infrastructure, utilities, financial services and technology. In addition to his arbitration counsel work Joe sits regularly as arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Joseph Palin
Joe is a partner in the McCarthy Tétrault Financial Services Group. His practice is focused on structuring and completing domestic and international financing transactions, frequently advising both lenders and borrowers as they navigate matters involving complex financing structures. Acting as a trusted advisor, Joe leverages his business acumen and legal expertise to achieve the best possible outcomes for clients. With over 30 years of experience in the practice of law, Joe has detailed industry knowledge and established relationships in the oil & gas, energy services, and power sectors. Through first-rate technical knowledge, strategic advice and understanding of clients’ business, he guides clients through even the most challenging situations.
McCarthy Tétrault
Josh Jantzi
Josh Jantzi is a partner in DLA Piper's Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto offices and co-chairs the firm's Canadian Regulatory and Environmental Law group. He maintains a leading litigation and administrative law practice focused on environmental, energy regulatory, natural resource, Indigenous, transportation, municipal, and constitutional matters.
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Josh Jones
Josh is the lead Canadian tax advisor to many domestic and international clients, particularly focusing on investment funds, strategic mergers and acquisitions, financial services and the sports industry. Josh has significant expertise advising on the structure of Canadian investment funds, with an emphasis on exchange-traded funds (ETFs). In the sports industry, Josh advises a number of clients on league and special event structuring and related tax matters.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Josh Van Deurzen
With a dual call in Ontario and New York, Josh advises clients on commercial agreements for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of major infrastructure and public-private partnership (PPP) projects on both sides of the Canada / U.S. border. Josh works with project participants spanning the infrastructure ecosystem—representing government authorities, developers, construction contractors, service providers, lenders and underwriters—on all aspects of development and financing transactions across the spectrum of social and economic infrastructure, including healthcare, broadband, transit and transportation, water and wastewater, education and power.
Torys
Joshua Favel
Senior Associate
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Josée Gervais
Partner
Gowling WLG
Joven Narwal, KC
Joven Narwal, KC is recognized as one of Canada’s most accomplished trial and appellate lawyers, celebrated for his ability to navigate the most complex and high‑stakes cases where liberty, reputation, and precedent are at risk. As the founding partner of Narwal Litigation LLP, he has built a practice that commands respect across criminal law, securities enforcement, professional regulation, and civil disputes with criminal dimensions. Appointed King’s Counsel by the Attorney General of British Columbia, Narwal’s career reflects exceptional merit and contributions to the legal profession. His reputation extends beyond the courtroom: he has been named White Collar Crime and Enforcement Lawyer of the Year by Benchmark Litigation Canada, consistently recognized as a Litigation Star, and selected as one of Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. A former Crown Prosecutor, he brings unique insight into both sides of the justice system, and his leadership has been evident in roles such as President of the Vancouver Bar Association, Chair of the Canadian Bar Association Criminal Subsection, and Chair of the Judicial Council of Tsawwassen First Nation. Narwal’s influence also extends to academia, where he serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law, teaching advanced seminars on White Collar Crime and Criminal Organizations. His work has attracted national and international attention.
Narwal Litigation LLP
Joyce Lee KC
Partner
Deloitte Legal Canada LLP
Julia Lockhart
Partner
Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson
Julia Qian Wang
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Julia Webster
Julia Webster is a disputes and international trade lawyer. She advises companies on trade remedies, free trade agreements, blocking measures, customs compliance, anti-corruption laws, economic sanctions, AML compliance, supply chain ethics, and cross-border M&A.
Baker McKenzie
Julie Himo
Julie is a highly regarded advisor to Canadian and multinational clients across industries in their cybersecurity governance, conducting strategic risk and privacy assessments and providing counsel on a wide variety of privacy issues. Julie frequently acts as breach coach for clients and has considerable experience with all types of cyber incidents, including cyber extortion in the context of information theft, DDoS attacks, large-scale ransomware attacks, sophisticated hacking, malware and phishing attacks, lost and stolen laptops, drives and paper information, and data breaches impacting payment cards and PCI rules. With many of these incidents having international implications, Julie is experienced in coordinating notification and regulatory filing efforts across multiple countries. Julie has served as a breach coach for Canadian and international insurance companies and represented numerous policyholders in responding to data security incidents, covering Canada, the U.S. and various other countries in various fields, including dealing with PCI DSS and other related reporting obligations. She also has experience in the education sector, advising universities and other institutions subject to cyberattacks, working with forensic experts during the investigation and guiding them through their regulatory and PR responses. In addition to her breach coach work, Julie conducts strategic risk and privacy assessments; counsels clients on “privacy by design” for new products and marketing initiatives, including supporting consumer engagement activities, such as marketing and contests; advises on CASL compliance; and intervenes on a wide variety of privacy issues. She also assists clients with strategic requests to obtain material information for business or legal purposes and with resisting the disclosure of important confidential information before institutions, regulators and the courts. Julie also has extensive experience in commercial litigation and has acted on major disputes in a diverse range of areas, including commercial fraud, contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, bankruptcy and insolvency, take-overs by means of plans of arrangement, as well as corporate and securities matters. She has also represented client in numerous disputes involving extraordinary remedies such as seizures and injunctions. Julie is fluent in French, English and Arabic.
Torys
Julie Soloway
Julie is Co-Chair of Blakes’ award winning Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Ranked as one of Canada’s Most Influential lawyers, she is on the cutting edge of guiding businesses and investors under the Competition Act and Investment Canada Act, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions. Julie is ranked in all leading directories as one of the top competition lawyers in Canada, and as one of the world’s top 100 Women in her field. Canadian Lawyer Magazine previously named Julie as one of Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers, and in 2023, she was shortlisted for Dealmaker of the Year at the Global Competition Review Awards. Clients value her concise and pragmatic approach, noting she is “very bright, experienced and makes the trickiest regulatory filings easy to understand with her practical and commercially-minded advice.”
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Julie-Martine Loranger
Litigation partner based in Montréal. Practice focuses on class actions, product liability, tort, consumer protection, securities, and white collar crime. Highly experienced litigator with over 30 years of experience, and has appeared before all levels of Courts of Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada, Quebec Court of Appeal, and the superior court. Has appeared before various regulatory bodies, arbitrators, and mediators. Recognized as a skilled negotiator with proven affinity for strategy and innovation.
McCarthy Tétrault
Julien Bourgeois
Partner
Dentons
Juliet Smith
Partner
Dentons
Jung-Kay Chiu
Partner, Canadian National Chair, Intellectual Property
Norton Rose Fulbright
Junior Sirivar
Junior’s practice focuses on high-stakes litigation and arbitration. He works with domestic and international clients to resolve their most complex disputes, with deep expertise across the financial services, mining, telecommunications and healthcare sectors. Widely recognized as a leading trial counsel, Junior is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has appeared in some of the most significant recent commercial cases in Canada. He is also regularly retained as lead arbitration counsel in investor-state and international commercial arbitrations seated in a number of jurisdictions including Canada, South America and the European Union. Junior has been recognized in numerous legal directories and rankings, including Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers Canada, The Legal 500 Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, and Benchmark Canada: The Definitive Guide to Canada’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Justin Lapedus
Partner in the Financial Services Group in the Toronto office, with a practice focused on banking and secured-lending transactions. Acts for Canadian banks, US banks, as well as other Canadian, US and international financial institutions and non-bank lenders in connection with structuring and negotiating all types of debt financings, including acquisition financings, asset-based loans, and other corporate and commercial loans.
McCarthy Tétrault
Justine Wiebe
Partner, Trademark Agent
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP