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Nancy Hamzo
Nancy Hamzo is a principal in the North American Transactions Group. Nancy regularly advises clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions and complex corporate transactions including multi-jurisdictional reorganizations across a variety of industries, with a particular focus on the life sciences and technology sectors. She further advises on Canadian antitrust and foreign investment matters. Nancy has been recognized as a Lexpert Rising Star: Leading Lawyer Under 40 and as a key lawyer in Legal 500 Canada 2021 for M&A. She has practiced in the Firm's Amsterdam and Chicago offices working on cross border transactions. She serves on the Firm's North America Transactions Steering Committee and sits on the steering committee for Cross-Border Transactions and Integrations. She also co-chairs the Women's Networking Initiative in the Toronto office.
Baker McKenzie
Natalie Bussière
Natalie dedicates her practice to employment and labour law, as well as pension, benefits and executive compensation. She has represented clients in litigation concerning surplus assets of a pension plan, the validity of contribution holidays taken by employers party to a pension plan and in litigation contesting the legality of clauses found in rules and regulations of pension plans. Natalie also counsels various plan sponsors and pension committees regarding plan design and administration related issues. Natalie has worked extensively in the field of employment law and labour relations, negotiating employment contracts, collective agreements and other agreements, and advising employers on complex issues, including issues related to the application of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. She also advises on the transfer, hiring or termination of upper management and employees. Natalie has pleaded before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court of Appeal, the Superior Court, the Federal Court and the Labour Administrative Tribunal, as well as before many arbitration and other specialized administrative tribunals. Additionally, Natalie is closely following developments on the application of the Charter of the French Language as well as environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, including with respect to employee relations and benefits management, and she advises clients in this regard.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Natalie Rizkalla-Kamel
Partner Trademark Agent
Gowling WLG
Natalie Worsfold
Partner, Tax Litigation
Counter Tax Litigators LLP
Natasha MacParland
Partner, national co-leader and Toronto leader of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy group
Dentons
Natasha Miklaucic
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Natasha Rana
Partner
Gowling WLG
Nathalie Durocher
Partner
Dentons
Navin Joneja
Navin is a Partner and Co-Chairs the Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. He provides strategic advice on domestic and multinational mergers, joint ventures, strategic alliances, cartels, abuse of dominance investigations, class actions and compliance programs. He is considered a leading expert on Canada's competition, antitrust and foreign investment laws and regulations. Over the past nearly twenty years, clients have valued his practical and thoughtful approach to navigating Canada’s competition and foreign investment laws, often in coordination with reviews in other jurisdictions. Notable matters include: Superior Plus/Certarus, Google/Fitbit, Elanco/Bayer, Harris/L3 Technologies, Praxair/Linde and many others.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Neil Katz
Neil is a senior partner and an experienced real estate lawyer with a focus on acquisitions and dispositions and financing. Neil has worked on some of Quebec’s largest real estate transactions. Neil has extensive expertise in advising leading public and private companies, institutional investors, private equity sponsors, chartered banks and other financial institutions on a wide variety of transactions. Prior to his career in law, Neil worked as an analyst and appraiser for a major real estate developer, the real estate investment banking arm of a Canadian chartered bank and a leading real estate appraisal firm.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Neil S. Rabinovitch
Partner
Dentons
Nelson Godfrey
Partner Patent Agent, Trademark Agent; Head of Vancouver IP Litigation Department
Gowling WLG
Nicholas Hughes
Mr. Hughes is a senior litigator in McCarthy Tétrault’s Vancouver Office who specializes in regulatory litigation, administrative law, environmental litigation and constitutional litigation primarily in the mining, transportation and industrial sectors, including defending and prosecuting civil claims, acting on appeals and judicial reviews of regulatory decisions, and the defence of clients in regulatory and quasi-criminal prosecutions. He regularly represents client before the Environmental Appeal Board (EAB) and on judicial review applications of regulatory decisions and appeals therefrom.
McCarthy Tétrault
Nick Pasquino
Partner and Co-Leader, Healthcare Group
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Nicole Mantini
A litigator practising in life sciences, Nicole’s fluency with scientific subject matter makes her particularly skilled at working with expert witnesses and transforming complex scientific concepts into persuasive advocacy. Nicole’s commercial litigation practice focuses on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life sciences sectors. Her experience extends across patent and trademark litigation, product liability and class actions, and regulatory and judicial review proceedings. Nicole frequently represents international and North American pharmaceutical companies in patent infringement, impeachment and related proceedings, including under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulation. She also represents life sciences clients in regulatory matters, including in proceedings for judicial review, and has assisted Canadian and international companies in defending and enforcing trademark rights in Canada. Nicole’s litigation work also includes defending health product, medical device and agricultural product manufacturers in product liability actions across Canada, including in class proceedings. She has appeared as counsel in the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, at the trial and appellate level in the courts of Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and in the Supreme Court of Canada.
Torys
Nicole Skuggedal
Nicole practices in all areas of labour and employment law, advising clients on wrongful dismissal, labour relations, human rights and privacy issues. Nicole has represented clients in matters involving labour arbitrations, labour relations boards, employment standards tribunals, human rights tribunals, privacy commissioners, and has appeared before the British Columbia Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada. Nicole frequently negotiates collective agreements and provides strategic and tactical advice to clients on drafting employment contracts and the labour and employment aspects of commercial transactions. Nicole is a Past President of the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers, which is the leading management side labour and employment lawyers’ organization in Canada.
Lawson Lundell LLP
Nicole Tzannidakis
Associate
Dentons
Nigel Johnston
Practice focuses on providing tax advice to the investment funds and asset management industry (domestic and foreign), private equity, the creation of new financial products, the taxation of renewable energy projects and corporate income tax issues.
McCarthy Tétrault
Nikiforos Iatrou
Focused on contentious antitrust matters, Niki is routinely retained by Canadian and multinational clients facing high-stakes, competition issues, including mergers, cartels, abuses of dominance, false and misleading advertising claims, and class actions. Recent matters involve investigations into social media, food delivery, alleged abuse of dominance in commercial aviation; alleged misleading online price representations in intercity transportation and temporary accommodations; e-Book publishing; airline joint ventures; and class actions regarding salmon, hard drive suspension systems, sub-sovereign bonds, and generic drugs.
McCarthy Tétrault
Noel Chow
Noel Chow is an associate in the firm’s Financial Services Group in Toronto. Her practice focuses on all aspects of banking and secured lending transactions, including acquisition financings, mezzanine financings, asset-based lending, syndicated and bilateral financings and multi-jurisdictional and multi-currency transactions. Noel regularly advises Canadian and foreign banks and financial institutions and borrowers in diverse industries in the structuring, negotiation and execution of their financing transactions.
McCarthy Tétrault
Noriko Shimura
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Olga Kary
Olga is a corporate and securities law practitioner with over 15 years of experience who provides strategic and technical guidance on a wide variety of transactions. She specializes in the areas of M&A, capital markets, corporate restructuring, going private transactions, proxy contests, corporate governance and continuous disclosure. Olga has advised on a number of high-profile complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, as well as both public and private capital markets offerings. She is highly trusted by her clients and plays a valuable role in the success of clients’ transactions. Olga has lead a number of recent high profile transactions, including on: CDN$8.6 billion going public transaction of Strathcona Resources Ltd., Enerplus Corporation on its US$11-billion combination with Chord Energy, Kinder Morgan’s CDN$4.35 billion acquisition of KML and the Cochin pipeline system by Pembina Pipeline Corporation, Strathcona Resources Ltd., a portfolio company of Waterous Energy Fund, on its numerous acquisitions over the last five years, as well as the Riverside Company on its take private acquisition of PFB Corporation and concurrent sale-leaseback transaction, among many others.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Oliver Borgers
Practice focuses on all aspects of antitrust law, foreign investment and national security review. Emphasis on application of these laws to mergers, acquisitions, notifications and market conduct. Regularly provides merger advice to major global companies. Has obtained competition and foreign investment clearances for Canada’s largest transactions, among many others.
McCarthy Tétrault
Olivia Colic
Regional Managing Partner for Alberta. Partner in the firm's Real Property & Planning Group in Calgary. Practice focuses on all areas of commercial real estate including acquisition and sale transactions, domestic and cross-border financing, development and leasing. Trusted real estate advisor for over 20 years to property owners, lenders, borrowers, landlords, managers and tenants on the multi-faceted contractual, operational and financial issues they face throughout Canada. Acted also for major property developers, pension funds, REITs and other private investors on numerous significant commercial real estate transactions.
McCarthy Tétrault