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Amy Maginley

Amy’s practice encompasses a broad range of energy and related infrastructure transactions, with specific experience in the oil and gas sector, where she has advised on a wide variety of upstream, midstream and downstream transactions and commercial arrangements in respect of project development, including construction, operation, processing and transportation arrangements. She works with clients across the spectrum of the sector, including some of the largest oil and gas companies, governments, and institutional and private equity investors. Amy also regularly advises clients on a wide range of corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Torys

Energy & Natural ResourcesOil & Gas+3
Canada
AJ

Andrea Johnson

Partner

Dentons

Corporate / M&ACapital Markets+2
Canada
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Andrea York

Andrea is the Practice Group Leader of the Blakes National Employment & Labour group and Co-Chair of the Firm's Privacy group. Andrea is an experienced advocate with over 25 years of practice devoted to advising corporations and other employers on employment and privacy law matters. With a practice that predominantly focuses on providing practical day-to-day advice and defending employers when employee disputes arise, she works with clients in a variety of sectors, including banking and financial services, retail, manufacturing, health sciences, technology, and marketing and advertising. Andrea also advises on the employment aspects of commercial transactions, reorganizations, insolvencies and outsourcing transactions.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Employment & LabourPrivacy+1
Canada
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Andreas Kloppenborg

Partner

Dentons

Corporate / M&ASecurities+2
CanadaEnglish
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Andrew Bernstein

Andrew provides clients with leading experience, deep knowledge and skilled advocacy to advance their interests in patent and commercial disputes, as well as appellate matters, in all levels of court. Andrew helps clients involved in numerous types of disputes, including intellectual property, commercial and public law matters. A significant portion of his practice involves patents, copyright, trademarks arising in the life sciences, information technology, media and other industries. Andrew’s commercial litigation practice includes considerable experience in class actions, licensing, contract and tort actions, frequently advising and defending traditional and new media clients on defamation and free expression issues. He also has a strong track record in public law matters, having acted for both public- and private-sector clients in administrative hearings, judicial reviews and constitutional law cases. Andrew is an experienced appellate lawyer. He has helped numerous clients navigate difficult appeals before the Ontario and Federal Courts of Appeal, as well as other appellate courts across the country in a wide variety of areas of substantive law, including contracts, patents, copyright, class actions, administrative and constitutional law. He has also argued several appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Torys

Intellectual PropertyCommercial Litigation+4
Canada
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Andrew Bratt

Partner National Practice Group Leader – Employment, Labour & Equalities

Gowling WLG

EmploymentLabour+3
Canada
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Andrew Burton

Andrew Burton’s P3/Projects experience includes advising the successful proponent on a number of projects which have reached financial close, including the LAX Automated People Mover, Niagara Entertainment Centre, Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail, Ottawa (Confederation Line) Light Rail, Billy Bishop Toronto Airport Pedestrian Tunnel, Quinte Consolidated Courthouse, Ontario Provincial Police Modernization projects in Ontario, the Golden Ears Bridge, Kicking Horse Canyon and William R. Bennett Bridge projects in British Columbia and the Calgary Ring Road, Edmonton Ring Road and Alberta Schools II projects in Alberta. Andrew has advised short-listed proponents on several projects across Canada including several RER Design-Build Finance projects in Toronto, Ontario, the Edmonton Light Rail, Regina Bypass, Waterloo Light Rail, East Rail Maintenance Facility, Toronto Air Rail Link, Sheppard Maintenance Facility, Windsor-Essex Parkway, Ontario Highway Services Centre, Durham Courthouse, Bridgepoint Hospital, Port Mann Bridge/Highway 1, Surrey Outpatient Facility, Niagara Health System, North Bay Regional Health Center, Disraeli Bridges projects, and has acted for senior lenders on the North Commuter Parkway and Traffic Bridge Project in Saskatoon, the Penticton Regional Hospital Patient Care Tower Project, the Regina Wastewater Project, Toronto South Detention Centre and Waterloo Region Consolidated Courthouse.

DLA Piper (Canada) LLP

InfrastructureConstruction+2
Canada
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Andrew Disipio

Partner and Head of Mining Industry Team

Bennett Jones LLP

Corporate / M&ASecurities / Capital Markets+3
Canada
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Andrew Harrison

National Leader of the Pension and Benefits Group; Regional Managing Partner, Toronto

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Pensions & BenefitsFinancial Services+1
CanadaEnglish
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Andrew Kolody

Andrew’s practice focuses on banking, financial services, asset-based finance, debt finance and lending and project finance. He regularly acts on secured and unsecured debt syndications, acquisitions financings, subscription-based credit facilities, note and bond deals, subordinated debt arrangements, and intercreditor arrangements. He also has experience in corporate and commercial acquisitions and regularly advises on cross-border financings. Andrew has experience in financing transactions across a wide range of industries and sectors, including energy, financial services, oil & gas, construction and agriculture. Andrew also regularly acts as agent counsel to international law firms in providing Canadian advice on various financing transactions. Andrew has been named a Rising Star in IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms and recognized in The Legal 500 Canada.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Banking & FinanceAsset-Based Finance+5
Canada
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Andrew Lamb

Partner Head of Oil & Gas

Gowling WLG

Oil & GasEnergy & Natural Resources+5
Canada
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Andrew Lanouette

Partner

Cassidy Levy Kent LLP

International TradeAnti-dumping+6
Canada
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Andrew Matheson

Andrew is the Head of McCarthy Tétrault’s National White Collar and Investigations Group. He specializes in complex and cross-border investigations, regulatory and criminal defence, and professional discipline matters. His diverse experience includes practicing with Allen & Overy in New York City. In his investigations practice, Andrew addresses a wide range of exposures, including fraud, corruption, insider trading, money laundering, tax evasion and sanctions violations. He often appears before administrative tribunals, as well as appearing before the court of Ontario, including in the successful defence of the former CEO of Nortel on criminal fraud charges. He teaches at University of Toronto Law School, and publishes widely on matters relating to financial crime and investigations. He has been active in pro bono work throughout in his career, including acting for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

McCarthy Tétrault

White Collar CrimeInvestigations+3
Canada
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Andrew Parker

Andrew is co-head of the firm’s National Capital Markets Practice and is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Group in Toronto. Recognized as a leader in his field, Andrew’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law in general, including corporate finance (both domestic and cross-border), mergers and acquisitions, collective investment vehicles and registration and licensing matters. Andrew’s expertise in equity and debt capital markets combined with his practical, thorough, and responsive approach consistently make him the top choice for clients with sophisticated corporate and securities matters. Highly regarded by a variety of key sources, Andrew is involved in both public and private offerings for issuers, investors and underwriters with extensive experience in debt capital markets transactions (including high yield offerings). Clients count on Andrew’s deep understanding of the technical aspects of securities law to help guide them through complex legal matters efficiently and effectively.

McCarthy Tétrault

Capital MarketsCorporate / M&A+4
Canada
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Andrew Salem

Andrew Salem is a partner in the Real Estate & Development Group at Cassels. Andrew practices in the areas of commercial real estate, property development and commercial leasing. He represents clients on all aspects of real property purchases and sales and financing transactions, with a specialization in transactions relating to development projects. He also has a very active commercial leasing practice, acting for both landlords and tenants on all types of leasing transactions. Andrew has acted for a wide range of clients, including property developers and investors, federal and provincial government agencies, municipalities, universities, financial institutions, restaurant and retail chains, energy companies, large manufacturers, railways and many others. Learn more.

Cassels

Real EstateProperty Development+2
Canada
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Andrew Shaughnessy

Andy is known for a creative, business-savvy approach, bringing deep scientific fluency and sophisticated litigation strategy to clients in their complex intellectual property disputes. Andy’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution, representing a wide variety of clients in complex patent and trademark infringement and related litigation. With a focus on life sciences, Andy has decades of experience protecting the IP rights of clients in the industry and has deep knowledge and perspective on pharmaceutical patents. He has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, Ontario Superior Court of Justice and Court of Appeal for Ontario, as well as specialized tribunals such as the Trademarks Opposition Board and the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board. Andy is very active in the legal community and is a well-known speaker, teacher and author in Canada.

Torys

Intellectual PropertyLitigation+5
Canada
AS

Andrew Shaw

Andrew Shaw is a partner in the Firm's Employment & Compensation Law Group. Prior to attending law school, Andrew held labour relations/human resources positions at both private and public sector companies. In these roles, he managed workplace disputes and grievances to an appropriate resolution, assisted internal clients with the interpretation of employment-related legislation, and provided counsel to senior management as required. Andrew assists clients with all aspects of the employment relationship, both unionized and non-unionized, in the province of Ontario and throughout Canada. He advises and represents employers in matters regarding employment standards, wrongful dismissals, human rights, labour relations/arbitration, union organizing, collective bargaining, occupational health and safety, pay equity, and workplace investigations.

Baker McKenzie

Employment LawLabour Law+17
CanadaEnglish
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Andrew Skodyn

Andrew Skodyn is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at Cassels. Andrew is a very experienced intellectual property and commercial litigator, with particular emphasis on patent litigation, trademark litigation, complex commercial disputes, product liability defence, and class actions. His intellectual property litigation experience covers a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals and life sciences, information technology and social media, professional services, manufacturing, agribusiness, and oil and gas. Learn more.

Cassels

Intellectual PropertyLitigation+5
Canada
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Andrew Spiro

Andrew regularly advises on complex transformational transactions for public and private companies, and is a trusted Canadian tax advisor to domestic and foreign clients alike. Andrew is particularly well known for his expertise in matters involving REITs and other real estate investment vehicles, linked notes and other structured products, mandatory disclosure and tax insurance. Andrew is a member of the legal personnel committee at Blakes and the Regional Vice-Chair, North America for the Lex Mundi Tax Practice Group.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

TaxReal Estate+2
Canada
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Andrew Winton

Andrew has been involved in a wide range of commercial matters, with a focus on insolvency and restructuring, shareholder disputes, real estate disputes, and employment matters. He regularly goes to trial and engages in private arbitrations to advance and defend claims on behalf of large corporations, small businesses, and private individuals. Andrew acts for parties in insolvency and restructuring matters, including as counsel to the court-appointed Monitor or Receiver, for directors and officers of insolvent corporations, and for other stakeholders. Notable insolvency mandates he has been involved with include Target Canada, Urbancorp, Sears Canada, Tobacco, and the Cresford/Clover on Yonge CCAA proceedings. Andrew’s real estate litigation practice includes acting in court and in private arbitrations for developers, commercial landlords, and tenants. In addition, Andrew acts for both employers and employees in executive terminations, with a focus on the financial industry, and has significant experience in “departing employee” cases involving unfair competition and misuse of confidential information disputes.

Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP

Insolvency & RestructuringLitigation+4
Canada
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André Baril

Labour and Employment partner based in Montréal. Acts for employers in a number of sectors, including manufacturing, transportation, mining, financial institutions, universities and government. His expertise focuses on all aspects of both provincial and federal labour and employment law, including: Collective bargaining and agreement administration, wrongful dismissals, employment agreements, employment standards and policies, workplace harassment and discrimination, labour arbitration and pay equity. Has acted as counsel before the Québec Tribunal administratif du travail, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, boards of arbitration, Human Rights Tribunal, and other boards and tribunals, as well as civil and Federal courts.

McCarthy Tétrault

Employment & Labour
Canada
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André Royer

Partner

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Labour & EmploymentOccupational Health & Safety+4
Canada
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Andy Gibbons

Andy’s deep real estate knowledge and insight into the energy and infrastructure industries help inform and guide clients in their most important and complex real estate projects and transactions. Andy’s practice focuses on commercial real estate law, with an emphasis on energy projects, infrastructure and public-private partnerships. Andy acts regularly on behalf of developers, consortiums, lending syndicates and government authorities on project construction, development and financing, as well as acquisitions and dispositions. He also has experience advising on the real estate components of M&A transactions, REITs and other securities law matters.

Torys

Real EstateEnergy+5
Canada
AP

Andy Pushalik

Partner

Dentons

Employment & LaborLitigation+1
CanadaEnglish