Lawyers in Canada
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Michael Currie
Michael acts for both public and privately held companies, with an emphasis on contractual disputes, franchise agreements, oppression claims, injunctions, and class actions. Michael has deep knowledge of the property development and automotive sectors in particular, including disputes under the National Automobile Dealer Arbitration Program (NADAP). Clients choose Michael for his acute attention to detail and strategic counsel. After a recent successful trial outcome, the judge observed that Michael and his co-counsel were “extremely well prepared”, “conducted highly focused and effective examinations”, and produced “focused and effective written closing submissions in very short order.”
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
Michael Dixon
Michael is the co-practice group leader for the Calgary litigation group. His disputes practice focuses on the energy sector, including oil and gas, oilsands, renewables, nuclear and mining. His practice involves all aspects of corporate/commercial litigation and arbitration, with a focus on oil and gas law, contract disputes, royalty disputes, fraud claims and insurance matters. Michael is also a co-founding member of Blakes’ Business Crimes, Investigations and Compliance Group. He has practiced white collar defence and compliance for over 15 years. He regularly advises Canadian and multinational corporate clients on compliance with domestic and international anti-bribery, modern slavery, and sanctions legislation. He has conducted numerous internal investigations and successfully defended corruption charges. Michael also advises on compliance with a variety of other criminal and regulatory legislation and has defended clients charged under a variety of criminal and regulatory statutes.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Michael Eizenga
Partner, Head of Class Actions
Bennett Jones LLP
Michael Elder
Michael practices in the areas of corporate and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with a focus on financial services. Michael has advised on M&A deals, minority investments and commercial agreements in the following industry sectors: banking, insurance distribution and manufacturing, wealth management and fintech, and has worked on some of the largest Canadian transactions in these sectors. He also regularly advises clients on fund investments and acts for clients in the technology, health care and manufacturing sectors.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Michael F. Ledgett
Partner
Dentons
Michael Ford KC
Michael Ford, K.C. is a partner in the firm's Calgary office. His practice is focused on employment and labour law, and has extensive experience in all aspects of collective bargaining, advising both unionized and non-unionized employers. Michael has acted for employers in collective bargaining, arbitrations, strikes and contract administration matters. He has advised employers on dealing with union organizational activity and provided counselling on various workplace matters, including employee discipline and termination, privacy issues, employment agreements, harassment/discrimination, drug testing policies, and sick leaves. He has also provided guidance to boards of directors and compensation committees on executive employment matters. Michael is a certified human resources professional. Michael develops sensible and workable solutions to complex workplace issues in a range of industries, including: energy, manufacturing, warehouse, communications, retail, financial, transportation and high-tech industries, as well as major public sector institutions in the health and education fields. He has defended many employers in significant labour and employment cases involving provincially and federally-regulated workplaces, and routinely advises on Canada/US business transactions involving employment matters.
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Michael Fortier
With extensive experience in the energy, infrastructure, mining, metals and real estate industries, Michael gives clients broad counsel across a range of environmental law and Indigenous matters—from projects and transactions to regulatory matters and disputes. Michael provides practical advice to clients on key environmental, Indigenous and strategic aspects of developing, permitting and constructing energy, infrastructure, mining and real estate projects. He guides clients in their negotiations with Indigenous peoples and regulatory agencies, especially to resolve impasses, to advance complex, multi-party negotiations and to develop strong, mutually beneficial relationships with Indigenous peoples. He also provides counsel on consultation and accommodation and the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous peoples. For existing operations in a wide range of sectors, Michael provides regulatory advice on a broad range of environmental, health and safety issues, including with respect to environmental assessments and other vital permits, including for electricity generation and transmission, water, wastewater, transportation, waste, mine and remediation/closure projects inspections; investigations; liability assessments; climate change; contaminated sites; air, renewable energy, sewage and other approvals. He also advises on the transportation, import and export of dangerous goods, nuclear substances, hazardous products and wastes. As part of Michael’s transactional work, he regularly assists buyers, sellers, lenders, borrowers, underwriters and investors through all the environmental and Indigenous aspects of transactions, from the design and coordination of deal-specific liability assessments, through the negotiation of agreements and in handling closing and post-closing details. Michael often crafts a practical, successful resolution to disputes, acting in a mediation or intermediary role. His dispute resolution practice includes approval hearings, civil litigation (especially with respect to contamination), mediation, negotiation and regulatory prosecutions and other proceedings, including with respect to the Environmental Protection Act, Ontario Water Resources Act, Pesticides Act, Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, Fisheries Act and Nuclear Safety and Control Act.
Torys
Michael Gans
Michael is recognized as one of Canada’s leading M&A lawyers, having advised on many of Canada’s highest-profile merger and acquisition transactions as well as numerous middle market transactions. He acts for strategic and financial buyers, targets and significant shareholders on domestic and cross-border acquisition transactions. He has led transactions across many industries, including consumer, industrials, technology and healthcare, among others. Michael also has experience representing special committees in connection with M&A transactions, related party transactions and internal investigations. Michael is a member of Blakes’ Executive Committee, the former head of Blakes Toronto Capital Markets practice and one of the co-founders of Blakes New York office.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Michael Garellek
Michael serves as the head of the Financial Services Regulatory Practice for Canada and is a Transactional Partner in Baker McKenzie's Toronto office. His practice focuses on Canadian financial regulation and compliance for fintechs, financial institutions and financial market participants, online marketplaces, blockchain and web3 devs. Michael has assisted many global companies establish and grow their businesses in Canada. He is a co-author of Baker McKenzie's Doing Business in Canada, the Annotated Bank Act (2025-2023 editions) and the Jurisclasseur en valeurs mobilieres, a long leading treatise on securities laws in Canada.
Baker McKenzie
Michael Henriques
Partner
Dentons
Michael Hickey
Michael advises clients in a wide variety of cross-border and domestic capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings, private equity and other business transactions, with an emphasis on the representation of public and private issuers and the investment banks advising such companies. He acts on transactions involving a wide range of industry sectors, including technology, financial institutions and financial services, health care, industrial and manufacturing, mining, cryptocurrency, and consumer products. He provides ongoing advice to a variety of public issuers regarding corporate governance (including board advisory and special committee mandates) and continuous disclosure obligations and also provides strategic advice to clients on environmental, social and governance considerations in connection with financings, sustainable investment transactions and ongoing reporting obligations. Michael previously worked in the Firm's New York office, where he advised clients on Canada/U.S. cross-border M&A as well as corporate finance and private equity transactions, while providing Canadian corporate advice to both Canadian and foreign clients conducting business or offerings in Canada.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Michael Howcroft
Michael advises clients on a wide range of employment and labour matters, including wrongful dismissal, labour relations, human rights, employment standards, post-employment competition by former employees, and occupational health and safety. His practices encompasses dispute resolution, commercial transactions and general advice on all employment and labour related matters. Michael has appeared before all levels of courts in British Columbia, as well as the Labour Relations Board, the Human Rights Tribunal and the Employment Standards Tribunal.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Michael Manhas
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Michael Matheson
Michael has more than 25 years of experience in banking and financial services law, with a particular specialization in corporate and commercial finance. His practice is focused on the areas of banking, syndicated lending, leveraged finance, project finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Michael regularly advises Canadian and foreign financial institutions and borrowers with respect to the structuring and negotiation of syndicated loan transactions, acquisition financings, take-over bid financings, leveraged buyouts, corporate reorganizations, workouts, and mergers and acquisitions.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Michael McIntosh
Michael is a senior partner in the Financial Services Group in Calgary. His practice focuses on banking, corporate lending, acquisition finance, structured finance and project finance. He also has extensive experience in corporate and commercial acquisitions and regularly advises on cross-border financings. His recent transactions include major project financings, major acquisition financings and cross-border structured financings, as well as financings of pipelines, refineries, oil sands projects, conventional oil and gas reserves, petrochemical plants, mining assets and power generating assets. Specifically, Michael is lead counsel to the borrower for the project financing of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline and is lead counsel to the lenders for the financing of North West Redwater’s Sturgeon Refinery.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Michael McLaren
Partner
Thorsteinssons LLP
Michael Milne
Partner
Cassidy Levy Kent LLP
Michael Murphy
Michael’s practice focuses on securities law, with an emphasis on domestic and cross-border securities offerings and Canadian securities regulation. He has represented issuers and investment banks in a wide range of public equity and debt offerings and private placements. Michael also regularly provides guidance to public company clients on regulatory compliance, disclosure issues, and securities law matters.
Torys
Michael Mysak
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Michael Pedlow
With a rigorous approach backed by significant experience across corporate and capital markets transactions, Mike Pedlow brings broad perspective to his work alongside clients in their most important transactional and securities matters. Mike counsels public and private companies across a broad range of industries in the structuring and implementation of financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate sales and recapitalization and reorganization transactions. He regularly advises syndicates of underwriters and agents in the structuring and the implementation of financings and related due diligence efforts. Mike also works closely with clients to provide them with comprehensive guidance on compliance and best practices with respect to stock exchange requirements, corporate governance matters and reporting obligations.
Torys
Michael Pickersgill
With broad legal acumen and deep experience in the mining sector, Michael provides insightful, commercially minded advice that progresses clients’ business objectives. Michael has a comprehensive corporate and securities practice, regularly advising leading companies and global businesses on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, as well as continuous disclosure, stock exchange matters and shareholder arrangements. As the head of Torys’ Mining and Metals Practice, Michael has extensive experience in the areas of public and private equity, streaming and royalty finance and M&A in the mining sector. He works regularly with domestic companies and offshore clients investing in Canadian resource companies.
Torys
Michael S. Sestito
Partner
Dentons
Michael Scherman
Michael is a partner in the Technology Law Group and Cyber/Data Groups with deep experience in providing practical legal solutions across a broad range of technology-related transactions, including in relation to privacy, technology outsourcing, cloud services, licensing, joint development arrangements, e-commerce, data sharing, distribution agreements and competitive/public technology procurements. Michael brings specific knowledge and experience in addressing the unique concerns posed by emerging technologies and trends, including artificial intelligence and big data. He regularly advises companies in relation to complex arrangements involving novel and innovative uses of data and technology and speaks on topics of strategic importance in the industry, including at the 2022 Canadian Open Banking Forum regarding data ownership and at the 2022 IEEE GET Blockchain Forum regarding privacy considerations.
McCarthy Tétrault
Michael Skene
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP