Lawyers in Canada
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Kiran Patel
Kiran has a broad commercial litigation practice with a particular focus in the areas of restructuring, construction and complex corporate/commercial disputes. He has been involved in a variety of cases including litigation relating to major construction projects, technology, shareholder disputes, public procurement processes, performance management, supply contracts, transportation, leasing, competition and securities class actions. Kiran has represented clients at all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as before administrative tribunals and international commercial arbitration panels. Prior to joining Blakes, Kiran spent three years as a management consultant at a global consulting firm, where he provided strategic advice to clients in a variety of industries. Kiran uses his commercial experience to deliver practical and timely advice that is aligned with clients' overall legal and business objectives.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Kirsten Thompson
Partner and the national lead of Dentons’ Privacy and Cybersecurity group
Dentons
Krista Hill
Krista Hill is widely recognized as an industry leader in infrastructure and energy M&A, privatizations and joint ventures/partnerships, both in Canada and internationally. Krista is the co-head of the Infrastructure and Energy practice, as well as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. Krista has deep experience in complex, innovative, first-of-kind transactions and projects. With robust insight into all types of energy projects and infrastructure asset classes, she regularly leads large teams working to advance significant projects and transactions. Krista is also an accomplished lead negotiator and has extensive experience advising multiple stakeholders with respect to their complex projects and transactions.
Torys
Krista Schofer
Partner
Gowling WLG
Kristin Taylor
Kristin Taylor serves as the Managing Partner at Cassels and is a partner in the Employment & Labour Group. Kristin provides practical and strategic advice to employers on a wide range of employment matters including employee hiring, discipline and termination; severance packages; corporate restructuring; employment agreements and personnel policies; certification applications; privacy and AODA compliance; mergers & acquisitions and employment standards and human rights issues. Kristin regularly represents employers in court in wrongful dismissal actions, severance pay class actions, restrictive covenant disputes and injunctions; in grievance arbitrations, in collective bargaining and before various administrative tribunals, including the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and labour relations boards. She also conducts supervisory development and harassment prevention training to proactively prevent workplace disputes. Learn more.
Cassels
Kristopher Hanc
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Kristopher Simard
Kris specializes in capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity transactions. Kris has extensive experience representing publicly-listed and private issuers and dealers in domestic and cross-border equity and debt capital markets transactions, utilizing a wide variety of products and transaction structures, including project financing and sustainable finance structures. Kris also regularly represents public and private acquirors and target companies and special committees in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including plans of arrangement, mergers and take-over bids. Kris also represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies with buyout, investment, add-on and exit transactions. Kris also regularly advises issuers on general corporate and securities law and ESG-related matters, including corporate governance and compliance with continuous disclosure obligations and stock exchange policies.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Kurt Sarno
Kurt is the Co-Leader of the Firm’s Private Equity Group and the co-author of the Firm’s Canadian Private Equity Deal Study. Kurt specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and joint ventures. He advises buyers, sellers and targets on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; private equity investors and sponsors on buy-outs, investments and exits; and businesses across various industries on complex joint ventures and strategic corporate and commercial matters. Kurt is the relationship partner for a number of the Firm’s most significant private equity clients. He regularly leads large, multi-jurisdictional and interdisciplinary teams in executing complex, and often cross-border transactions.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Ky Kvisle
Ky's practice focuses on commercial transactions and project development, primarily focusing on energy and natural resources. He works extensively on power related matters, including the full life cycle of numerous types of development and operational generation projects, including natural gas, wind, solar, hydro and biomass. In addition to his work in the power sector, Ky frequently works on other matters in the energy transition, oil and gas, midstream, agriculture, petrochemical, technology and mining sectors. His experience includes working on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, power purchase agreements, commodities trading and derivatives agreements, carbon emissions and offset trading, EPC and supply chain agreements, ESG matters, corporate reorganizations, project and acquisition financings, insolvency and distressed asset transactions, and infrastructure development and operational agreements. As an associate, Ky spent time seconded to the Firm's offices in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. During that time, he acted for Canadian companies with investments in the Middle East as well as some of the largest enterprises based in the region. Prior to joining Blakes, Ky obtained industry experience working in the legal department of a large Canadian-based international oil and gas company.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Kyle A. Ross
Partner Areas of Practice Tax Planning Merger & Acquisitions Corporate Tax Planning Resource Tax Personal Tax Planning Tax Representation & Litigation
Felesky Flynn LLP
Lampros Stougiannos
Partner
Dentons
Lana Finney
Lana is an accomplished environmental lawyer, litigator and a certified specialist in environmental law. She advises clients on environmental considerations in acquisition and sale transactions, provides strategic solutions relating to contaminated sites and remediation, and helps to navigate the assessment, permit and environmental approval processes. Her experience also includes advising Canadian and international companies on transactional representation and warranty insurance. She also provides guidance to clients on Canada’s various chemical regulatory regimes, including the recently introduced reporting regimes for plastics and PFAS, as well as provincial and territorial extended producer responsibility legislation. Lana regularly defends clients charged with environmental and regulatory offences under federal and provincial legislation, appeals remediation orders to the Ontario Land Tribunal, and defends and prosecutes environmental litigation claims by landlords, tenants and property owners before the Ontario courts. Lana’s practice also focuses on renewable-energy projects, infrastructure projects and public-private partnerships, where she has extensive experience providing specialized environmental and regulatory advice related to project agreements and permitting.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Lana Shipley
Lana practices corporate and commercial law with a particular emphasis on energy, Indigenous and environmental law. She works with public and private companies in a wide range of industries, including mining, energy, natural resources, technology and manufacturing. Within her corporate and commercial energy law practice, Lana negotiates and structures complex commercial arrangements for hydroelectric utilities and energy companies, including tariff arrangements, power purchase and sale agreements, and renewable energy credits. She also conducts a variety of transactions, including asset and share acquisitions and dispositions, reorganizations and various other corporate proceedings, and advises public companies on regulatory matters, continuous disclosure and corporate governance practices. Lana’s Indigenous and environmental law practice involves assisting clients with the negotiation of impact benefit and other agreements with Indigenous groups in relation to proposed developments in the energy and mining industries and other sectors, as well as permitting and regulatory matters that arise throughout the development of both large and small projects. She also provides assistance in obtaining, amending and transferring environmental and other authorizations issued by federal and provincial regulatory authorities. Clients describe Lana as extremely well informed about negotiations for Indigenous benefits agreements.
Lawson Lundell LLP
Lara Mason
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Lara Nathans
Lara is McCarthy Tetrault’s Industry Strategy Leader, responsible for leading the firm and its people to truly understand and align with our clients and their industries. As Leader of our Retail and Consumer Markets Group, Lara is a trusted advisor to consumer-facing businesses looking to establish or grow in the Canadian market. She advises global companies entering Canada (through M&A, e-commerce, bricks and mortar or a combination) on their market entry strategies and related legal issues. She regularly advises retail industry clients on operational issues, new projects and their response to COVID-19, including navigating reopening and recovery across jurisdictions. Lara excels at negotiating M&A transactions, reorganizations and commercial matters for retailers (including e-commerce and digital) and consumer facing businesses. She provides well-informed guidance on multifaceted strategic and operational issues, including domestic and global expansion, COVID-19 response, reopening and recovery.
McCarthy Tétrault
Larry Elliot
Regional Managing Partner, Ottawa
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Larry Nevsky
Partner
Dentons
Larry Sandrin
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Lars Olthafer
Lars advises and represents upstream oil and gas producers, pipeline and midstream companies, and electrical generation (including nuclear) and transmission companies on regulatory and environmental compliance and facility approval processes, tolls and tariffs, public and aboriginal consultation, and land rights acquisition and compensation, in the context of both provincially and federally regulated projects. Lars regularly appears before energy and utilities boards and commissions in Alberta and B.C. (including the Canada Energy Regulator) as well as all levels of the Alberta and Federal Courts.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Laura Bevan
Laura is a leading litigator in British Columbia practicing in civil and commercial litigation and public law, and currently serves as the leader of the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group in Vancouver and Kelowna. Laura has extensive experience as trial and appellate counsel at all levels of court in British Columbia. She has also appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, and various arbitration and administrative tribunals. Laura focuses on strategic and practical litigation advice to clients operating in a diverse range of industries. She acts for clients in the gaming industry, the banking and securities industries and is litigation counsel to health and welfare benefit trusts. Laura has been recognised by Benchmark Litigation Canada on the 40 & Under for the past four consecutive years, and has also been recognised by Benchmark Litigation Canada as a Litigation Star for the past three years.
Lawson Lundell LLP
Laura Cundari
Laura is lead counsel on a variety of high-profile matters at all levels of court in Canada, including the SCC. She is known for advising on high-profile disputes in the energy, mining, construction, hospitality, fashion and infrastructure sectors. Laura also regularly advises or acts as dispute resolution counsel regarding disputes in the private equity and investment fund sector. Laura is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers and the Construction Lawyers Society of America. She has extensive expertise in the arbitration of complex domestic and international disputes and holds leadership roles in several key industry institutions; she is co-chair of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR)'s Canada Advisory Board, co-lead of the North American Group of the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center, a member of ICDR's Canada Advisory Committee and an ICC Canada Arbitration Committee member. She also sits on the board of CanArbWeek. She recently served on the Advocates’ Society’s BC Regional Advisory Committee and has served on the Executive of the CBA’s Civil Litigation Section.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Laura Estep
Partner, Presiding Member of the Dentons Canada Region Board
Dentons
Laura Gill
Partner
McCarthy Tétrault
Laura Inglis
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP