Lawyers in Canada
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Linda Tu
Linda's practice focuses on domestic and cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions transactions as well as private equity and capital markets transactions. Linda has acted for public and private companies, boards of directors and special committees, underwriters, and institutional and strategic investors. She also advises on general corporate matters, securities law disclosure and compliance requirements, and corporate governance matters. Linda has represented clients in a wide range of industry sectors, including retail and consumer products, technology, financial services, investment funds, mining, agriculture, cannabis, renewable energy and real estate. Prior to joining Blakes, Linda practised in the Toronto office of another national firm, providing corporate and securities law advice, and completed a secondment with the Ontario Securities Commission. Linda also speaks Mandarin Chinese.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Lindsay Balson
Lindsay's practice covers a broad range of transactional and commercial matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and pension fund investments. She advises clients on all aspects of complex corporate transactions, including strategic mergers, divestitures, minority investments, and cross-border transactions. Lindsay routinely provides advice to pension funds and other institutional investor clients on their private equity, infrastructure, real estate, hedge fund and other investments. In addition to her transactional work, Lindsay's experience includes advising clients on all aspects of their corporate and commercial arrangements, including reorganizations and other corporate restructurings, and complex shareholder, partnership, joint venture, and other commercial agreements. Lindsay has represented domestic and international clients in the life sciences, energy, technology, manufacturing, food, beverage and agribusiness, and retail sectors, among others. She has completed a secondment to the head office of one of the Firm's large retail clients, where she worked on a wide variety of corporate, commercial and compliance matters.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Lindsay Dykstra
Lindsay Dykstra is a partner in the Business Group at Cassels. Her practice focuses on entertainment and corporate matters. She has significant transactional experience, and regularly advises clients in the music, film, and television industries on a variety of commercial and copyright matters. Learn more.
Cassels
Lindsay McLeod
Lindsay McLeod is a senior lawyer with over 15 years of experience and is a Partner at BMKP Law LLP, a pension, benefits, and executive compensation law boutique. She provides strategic and practical advice to employers and plan administrators on matters relating to defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans, as well as supplemental executive retirement plans (SERPs). Her expertise includes pension plan governance, annuity purchases, pension fund investment matters, third‑party service agreements and other plan administration matters. She also has a wealth of experience advising on the design, taxation, and drafting of executive compensation arrangements, including stock option, deferred share unit (DSU) and restricted share unit (RSU) plans. Lindsay also has significant experience advising on risks and complex issues arising in corporate transactions, plan mergers, and wind‑ups. Lindsay has been recognized by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, Lexpert, and the Lexology Index for her expertise.
BMKP Law
Lindsay Rowell
Lindsay's practice involves all aspects of commercial litigation and arbitration with an emphasis on contract, construction, environmental and energy disputes. Lindsay regularly acts for clients in matters at all levels of court in Alberta. She also represents clients in regulatory proceedings, including before the Alberta Energy Regulator and the Alberta Securities Commission, and in matters before the Supreme Court of Canada. Lindsay is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). She regularly advises clients regarding domestic and international arbitration and has particular expertise in arbitrations involving major projects and the construction and oil and gas industries.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Line Abecassis
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Lisa Ford
Partner
Dentons
Lisa Melanson
Lisa Melanson is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s Intellectual Property Group. She has more than two decades of experience managing global IP portfolios and leading complex prosecution and regulatory files. Her full-service practice spans the range of IP protection, from patents and designs to trademarks and trade secrets. Building on her previous practice as a litigator, Lisa consults with the IP litigation team on contentious matters, often auditing the IP prosecution work of competing firms at the request of our litigation clients. She also provides IP and regulatory support on large commercial transactions. She is a pioneer of strategic practice at the complex IP/drug-regulatory interface under the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations and the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations.
McCarthy Tétrault
Lisa Talbot
With sophisticated advisory skills and strategic guidance in disputes, Lisa is an accomplished litigator and trusted advisor to boards and companies on their most sensitive and high-profile employment matters. Lisa leads Torys’ Employment Litigation Practice, advising companies and boards of directors on all manner of human resources issues, as well as representing them in contentious employment matters. As a strategic advisor with sophisticated perspective, Lisa gives comprehensive guidance to clients, often behind the scenes, on their most complex employment matters with enterprise-wide implications, such as high-profile CEO and C-suite departures and hires, policy-setting, whistleblower programs and workplace-related investigations. She also advises companies undertaking investigations and leading investigations, particularly on sensitive employment matters such as allegations of executive and employee misconduct and sexual harassment. To help proactively mitigate crisis risk, Lisa works closely with leading Canadian businesses on crisis management, response and preparedness tactics. Lisa is a skilled litigator, with deep experience in employment class actions defence. She regularly acts for Canada’s largest employers on overtime and other employment class actions, as well as in wrongful dismissal claims, bonus disputes and human rights and harassment claims. She has appeared as counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada, in all levels of court in Ontario, and in the Federal Court, as well as before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. Lisa is a member of Torys’ Executive Committee.
Torys
Loni Da Costa
Partner, Commercial Litigation Group
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Lou Cusano
A skilled litigator with significant experience in the energy industry, Luigi (Lou) Cusano helps clients navigate complex energy regulatory frameworks across high-stakes matters and disputes, bringing decades of knowledge of Canada’s evolving electricity and oil and gas sectors. Lou is the managing partner of the firm’s Calgary office. His practice focuses on administrative, regulatory and environmental law and commercial litigation in the energy sector. Lou has been involved in the restructuring of Alberta’s power industry and has experience in all aspects of both the regulated and the unregulated electricity sectors, including utility rates, cost of capital, market rules, reliability standards, energy price-setting plans, transmission, distribution and generation facilities (both renewable and non-renewable), cogeneration facilities, industrial systems, merchant transmission and generation, market surveillance investigations, and disputes regarding Alberta’s legislated Power Purchase Arrangements. In the oil and gas sector, Lou provides comprehensive regulatory advice across the spectrum of clients’ operations, including related to pipelines (greenfield, conversion and tolls and tariffs-related issues), heavy oil/oilsands development, well licensing, off-target penalties, pooling, common processors and carriers, processing facilities, public consultation, facility proliferation, environmental matters, land reclamation, emergency response and surface rights. Lou’s significant litigation experience includes many types of contractual disputes and power and oil and gas facility-related issues. He has appeared before numerous regulatory tribunals, including the Alberta Utilities Commission, Alberta Energy Regulator, the Natural Resources Conservation Board, Alberta Environmental Appeal Board, British Columbia Utilities Commission, Canadian Energy Regulator and the Alberta Securities Commission, as well as before all levels of Alberta courts and in mediations and arbitrations.
Torys
Louis Seveno
Partner
Woods LLP
Luc Lissoir
Partner
Gowling WLG
Luke Morrison
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Madeleine Hawkins
Madeleine is an associate in McCarthy Tétrault’s Real Property & Planning group. Her practice covers a broad range of commercial real estate matters including transactions, commercial leasing, financing and property development matters.
McCarthy Tétrault
Madison MacColl
Associate
Gowling WLG
Magdalena Hanebach
Associate
Gowling WLG
Maggie Carmichael
Maggie Carmichael is an associate at BMKP Law LLP practicing in the areas of pension, benefits and executive compensation law. She provides advice to sponsors and administrators of provincially and federally regulated defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans on plan design, administration, compliance, funding, investment and governance matters, as well as plan mergers, plan wind-ups, and the distribution of surplus. Maggie also provides advice on the pension, benefits and equity-based compensation aspects of corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions and reorganizations. She has experience working with employers in the design, drafting and implementation of incentive compensation plans, and with tax and other compliance issues relating to incentive compensation plans. In addition to the practice of law, Maggie is a member of the Board of Directors of Trafalgar Castle School, where she currently serves as Chair of the Risk Committee and previously served on the Governance Committee. Maggie has been recognized by Chambers and Partners and Best Lawyers for her expertise.
BMKP Law
Mahdi Shams
Partner & Co-Lead of Mining
MLT Aikins LLP
Manny Mukkar
Manny Mukkar is a partner in the Real Estate & Development Group at Cassels. Manny’s practice focuses on all aspects of commercial real estate law and general corporate matters in which he routinely acts on behalf of developers, vendors, purchasers, lenders and borrowers on a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, with a particular concentration on acquisitions and dispositions of commercial properties, commercial mortgage lending transactions involving all real estate asset classes, and tenant and landlord side leasing. Learn more.
Cassels
Marc Dorion
Co-leader of the firm’s national Energy and Infrastructure law groups, supervises the natural resources group in Québec and is responsible for the activities of the firm in relation to development of Northern Québec. Practice focuses on development and financing of major projects and other financing operations and privatizations. Advises companies, lending institutions and others. He acts as strategic counsel for numerous companies in connection with the development of Northern Québec and has considerable experience in commercial negotiation and public affairs.
McCarthy Tétrault
Marc MacMullin
Leader of the firm’s National Financial Services Group. Partner in the firm’s Toronto office with practice focusing on financial institutions, and capital market and structured finance transactions, including new issuer transactions, global covered bond programs (lead issuer counsel on a majority of the Canadian market covered bond programmes), cross-border transactions, asset-backed programs and novel capital market transactions. Acted as lead counsel on numerous public securitization transactions and global covered bond programs, both for issuers and underwriters. Extensive experience in innovative transactions and single-seller and multi-seller securitisation transactions for various asset classes, including credit card receivables, trade receivables, consumer loans, commercial mortgage and residential mortgage loan securitizations (CMBS and RMBS).
McCarthy Tétrault
Marc Mercier
Marc Mercier is a partner in the Banking & Specialty Finance Group at Cassels, serving as a current member and Past Chair of the firm’s Audit & Risk Management Committee. Marc’s practice places a particular emphasis on secured, unsecured and merger and acquisition financing, treasury management and financial derivatives-related matters, along with reorganizational workouts and restructurings. Marc also has an extensive practice serving the needs of various financial institutions in their family office, high net worth and ultra-high net worth areas, as well as various family enterprises and family offices. Learn more.
Cassels
Margaret Weltrowska
Partner
Dentons