Lawyers in Canada
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Roger Jaipargas
Partner and National Co-Leader, Insolvency & Restructuring Group
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Roger Taplin
Co-leader of the firm’s Global Mining Group. Practice primarily focuses on the areas of M&A and financing. Experience includes advising on significant mining M&A transactions, including takeover bids, business combinations, share or asset sales and joint ventures. Acts for issuers and underwriters on public and private securities offerings as well as providing general securities regulatory and corporate advice to public companies. Acts for mining clients and banks in relation to sizeable mining projects in a wide variety of international jurisdictions, including metal streaming and royalty transactions.
McCarthy Tétrault
Rory ffrench
Rory is the Co-Practice Group Leader of the Corporate & Commercial group in Toronto. He specializes in complex multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions, investments, strategic transactions and reorganizations, with particular expertise in navigating transactions in highly regulated fields. Rory’s experience collaborating with strategic, private equity and other financial sponsor clients spans a range of industries, including agribusiness, financial services, healthcare, professional services, manufacturing, infrastructure and technology. He also advises on all aspects of corporate and commercial law, including joint ventures, partnerships and the establishment of Canadian operations. Rory is a core member of the Firm’s Private Equity Practice Group, where he co-leads the Firm’s bi-annual Canadian Private Equity Deal Study publication. Rory’s expertise has been enhanced through his prior work at a major international law firm, a foreign investment bank, and as a practicing CPA at one of the big four accounting firms. Rory is routinely invited to speak on corporate and M&A matters, including for the Association of Corporate Counsel and the International Association of Young Lawyers. He is also a former Adjunct Faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Rose Bailey
Rose’s practice focuses on commercial law in the areas of finance, commercial real estate, renewable energy assets and projects, and securitizations. She brings a wealth of experience to lending and bond financing transactions, joint ventures and the acquisition and financing of businesses, real estate, energy assets and mortgage portfolios. Clients benefit from Rose’s nuanced perspective of the market, having advised both lenders and borrowers on domestic and international financing transactions, as well as acting on many public transactions involving REITs and public bond offerings. Rose has numerous clients with whom she shares a long history. For example, she has worked with Brookfield Asset Management and each of its energy, property and infrastructure platforms and First Capital Realty on its acquisitions, joint ventures, financings and development projects over the years. Rose also works closely with many of the Canadian lending institutions and their advisory groups.
Torys
Ross Bentley
Ross specializes in merger and acquisition and capital markets transactions with extensive experience advising acquirors and targets in domestic and cross-border take-over bids, plans of arrangement and mergers. He regularly advises issuers and dealers in equity and debt capital markets transactions and has extensive experience in a wide variety of transaction structures and products, including project financing and offerings of investment grade, subordinated, and high-yield debt. He also assists issuers in establishing shelf financing programs both for domestic offerings as well as cross-border offerings under the Canada/US multi-jurisdictional offering system. He advises issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders on capital markets transactions in the pipeline and energy infrastructure, agribusiness, airline, energy services, oil and gas exploration, chartered bank and railroad sectors. He advises on shareholder activism situations and has acted for several issuers on high profile proxy contests. He regularly advises issuers in connection with corporate governance requirements, continuous and timely disclosure obligations, stock exchange matters and general corporate matters. Ross has experience advising clients on ESG matters, including in respect of corporate governance and compliance, disclosure, and sustainable finance.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Roy Millen
Roy has particular experience in Indigenous rights and title, and litigation involving commercial and administrative law matters. Clients appreciate Roy's ability to provide prompt, straightforward and business-savvy advice in areas of the law that are complex and continually evolving. In the area of Aboriginal law, Roy advises clients across Canada on the development of energy, mining and other major projects, and relationships among Indigenous peoples, businesses, and governments. He negotiates commercial agreements, impact benefit agreements, consultation protocols and other arrangements with First Nations, Métis and other Indigenous groups. He also assists clients in navigating the regulatory processes necessary to secure project approval, including the implications of UNDRIP, and represents clients in litigation regarding Indigenous rights and title.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Ryan Berger
Ryan Berger is a leading privacy and employment lawyer, with a primary focus on providing strategic advice to businesses and employers. Ryan leads the firm’s Privacy Group and routinely advises public and private sector organizations on data protection, business confidentiality and privacy compliance, risk management strategies, breach response, access to information, and litigation. Ryan manages breach response teams for clients, including forensic investigation, crisis communications and notification. On the transactional side, Ryan works closely with the firm’s business group on technology development, innovation and deals involving data, as well as cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) agreements. Ryan also has substantial employment law practice, having practiced commercial and employment litigation for over 20 years. He advises employers in a wide range of employment and dismissal cases, as well as harassment and human rights complaints. Ryan is experienced in the development and enforcement of restrictive covenants. Ryan has unique experience in the health care space. He has advised and represented health authorities in privileging, discipline and related employment matters. He also combines his understanding of the health care space with keen interest in privacy law to advise electronic medical records providers, clinics and technology companies in the evolving digital health care world. Ryan has extensive experience in commercial litigation, having appeared before all levels of court in British Columbia and the courts of other provinces, as well as various tribunals and boards.
Lawson Lundell LLP
Ryan Griffith
Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ryan Jacobs
Ryan Jacobs is a partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency Group at Cassels and serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Executive Committee. A former New York practitioner with one of the most active bankruptcy groups in the United States, Ryan has developed a leading cross-border restructuring practice in Canada. He is routinely retained to act on behalf of ad hoc and official creditor groups, debtors, DIP Lenders, boards, institutional and distress investors, bidders and stalking-horse purchasers and other interested parties across a broad spectrum of industries. Ryan has been a trusted advisor in many of the largest and most complex in-court and out-of-court reorganizations, recapitalizations, and restructurings in recent history. Ryan is also an advisor to a number of boards of public and private companies in Canada and the United States. Learn more.
Cassels
Ryan Keays
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ryan Lax
Ryan’s civil litigation practice focuses on public, commercial and international investment law. Ryan regularly acts in domestic and international commercial arbitrations, and international investment arbitrations. He also advises on related investment protection matters. Ryan has a significant practice in Indigenous matters, with extensive experience advising project developers, lenders and governments on issues respecting the duty to consult with Indigenous communities and representing parties and negotiating in disputes regarding Indigenous issues, often on high-stakes or sensitive matters. He also routinely provides guidance to natural resource and energy companies on environmental, social, and governance issues. Ryan has appeared as counsel before all levels of court in Ontario, the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada, in arbitrations under the ADRIC, ICC, ICSID and UNCITRAL rules, and in ad hoc arbitrations.
Torys
Ryan McNamara
Ryan represents and advises clients on a wide range of environmental and electricity regulatory issues. He has experience addressing potential liability for environmental and regulatory offences, resolving property contamination disputes, and obtaining environmental regulatory approvals for energy projects, industrial facilities, and linear infrastructure projects. He also routinely provides environmental law advice on transactions of varying sizes, including some of Canada's largest mergers and acquisitions. Ryan's environmental practice extends to providing pragmatic advice to clients on how to effectively comply with a variety of environmental statutes and regulations. These include the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, provincial environmental protection statutes, and natural resource legislation. Ryan also regularly assists clients with navigating a variety of federal chemicals management regimes, including PFAS and plastics reporting, as well as provincial and territorial extended producer responsibility legislation. As part of his electricity regulatory practice, Ryan advises clients on Ontario Energy Board matters, including licensing and regulatory compliance, as well as generation and storage project permitting.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Ryan Middleton
Partner
Dentons
Ryan Morris
Ryan has developed a strong presence in the securities litigation space, with significant experience defending securities class actions (often with parallel actions in the US), securities transactional disputes and securities regulatory proceedings. He has successfully litigated some of the most significant recent securities transactional disputes in Canada, including contested transactions, takeover bids, proxy contests, and statutory plan of arrangement proceedings. These mandates often involve oppression and derivative claims, dissent and fair value proceedings, directors’ and officers’ liability advice and governance issues. Ryan is regularly sought out as defence counsel on securities class actions, particularly those related to financial products, including exchange traded funds, mutual funds and syndicated mortgage products, and has one of the largest practices in the country in this developing area. He has represented clients in enforcement proceedings before the securities commissions in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec and settled a CIRO proceeding relating to the largest block trade in Canadian history.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Ryan Steeves
Partner
Gowling WLG
Ryan Tomicic
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Ryan W. Antonello, CPA, CA
Partner Areas of Practice Tax Planning Mergers & Acquisitions Corporate Tax Planning Indirect Tax Personal Tax Planning Audits & CRA Proposals Estate Planning
Felesky Flynn LLP
S. Dane ZoBell, TEP
Partner Areas of Practice Tax Planning Trusts Corporate Tax Planning Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney & Personal Directives Personal Tax Planning Estate Administration Estate Planning Farm Taxation
Felesky Flynn LLP
Sabrina Bandali
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Sabrina Gherbaz
With a commercially-minded approach informed by a long history of work across the spectrum of real estate activity, Sabrina’s experience and strategic thinking help clients on their most significant transactions and projects. As co-head of the firm’s Commercial Real Estate Practice, Sabrina represents prominent Canadian real estate owners, developers and financial institutions on their large commercial real estate matters and infrastructure, transit and energy projects. Sabrina’s work includes transit-oriented and mixed-use developments, public-private partnership transactions, project and infrastructure development, asset-based purchase and sale transactions, real estate investment trusts and commercial leasing. Sabrina also regularly advises clients on project, mortgage and construction financing. Her experience in large commercial developments extends beyond Canada to Europe and Mexico.
Torys
Sahil Shoor
Partner
Gowling WLG
Sam Adkins
Sam is recognized as a leading lawyer in Canada with over 20 years of experience advising clients in the resource sector, with a strong focus on Indigenous and project development matters. His practice is national in scope, acting for clients across Canada on a wide range of Indigenous law issues, including consultation, negotiation and the regulatory process. Sam has significant industry expertise in the energy and mining sectors and has represented clients on commercial and transactional matters across all project phases. Previously, Sam held a senior position with an international energy company overseeing all Indigenous-related matters on a proposed liquefied natural gas project in Kitimat, British Columbia. Sam provides effective, timely and practical advice informed by his experience working both for and within industry. Sam is a director of the Association for Mineral Exploration (British Columbia), and the co-chair of the Indigenous Affairs and Reconciliation Committee of the Business Council of British Columbia. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on Indigenous law issues in Canada.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Sam Amelio
Partner
MLT Aikins LLP
Samantha Chang
Senior Associate
Dentons