Lawyers in Canada
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Samantha Cunliffe
Partner in the firm’s Infrastructure and Project Finance Groups in Vancouver. Practice is primarily focused on the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects. Regularly acts for borrowers and lenders on both the commercial and financing aspects of public-private-partnership projects in a wide range of industry sectors, including water treatment, social infrastructure, road, rail and other transportation. Recent transactions include advising the successful bidder on the Edmonton Valley Line West Project and the lenders to the successful bidder on the Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre Project.
McCarthy Tétrault
Sander Grieve KC
Partner, Head of Mining
Bennett Jones LLP
Sandra Barton
Partner
Gowling WLG
Sandra Gogal
Sandra Gogal is a partner in the Aboriginal Law Group at Cassels. A strategic thinker and trusted advisor to resource developers, investors, governments and agencies on matters relating to Aboriginal and environmental law, Sandra has a nationally recognized practice with extensive regulatory experience in mining, hydro-electric, nuclear, forestry, and oil and gas.
Cassels
Sandra Nissan
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Sandy Walker
Partner
Dentons
Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy
Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy is an intellectual property strategist and litigator. She has two decades of experience litigating complex patent, trademark and copyright matters using a creative approach to achieve business objectives. She also provides strategic advice in the procurement and enforcement of IP rights in various industries, with a focus on life sciences. Described as a “sharp tactician lauded for her detailed analysis, strategic mindset and unrivalled expertise”, Sangeetha has appeared as counsel in two appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as in matters before the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Ontario Court, as well as the Trademarks Opposition Board and the Competition Tribunal. Sangeetha has experience in all aspects of intellectual property litigation, ranging from pre-litigation opinions to appeals. In addition, she regularly works with counsel in various jurisdictions to co-ordinate the Canadian part of multi-jurisdictional lawsuits. She also has an active prosecution and opposition practice focused on global brand portfolios.
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Sarah Bird
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Sarah Gilbert
Counsel
Bennett Jones LLP
Sarah S. Chiu
Parnter Areas of Practice Tax Planning Resource Tax Corporate Tax Planning Tax Representation & Litigation Personal Tax Planning Audits & CRA Proposals Mergers & Acquisitions Objections International Tax
Felesky Flynn LLP
Sarah Whitmore
Sarah is the practice group leader for Torys' litigation department. Sarah maintains an active disputes practice with an emphasis on commercial litigation, class actions, employment law, and defamation. Sarah advises corporations in all stages of disputes, including complex governance disputes, shareholder arrangements, breach of contract claims, and transaction disputes. Sarah advises clients in numerous class actions, including employment claims, product liability, competition law, mass tort and negligence disputes. She regularly represents clients in the banking, retail, and technology sectors, including acting as counsel in several leading and precedent-setting national class actions, acting for the Canadian Hockey League, Canada Cartage and Deloitte, as well as a Canadian Schedule I bank in its defence to the first common issues trial to proceed on the merits in an employment class action in Canada. Sarah also has a robust defamation practice regularly representing media companies, authors, and individuals in various defamation matters. She has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec, as well as in various administrative tribunals in Ontario (including the Human Rights Tribunal), the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Torys
Sarit Batner
Successful trial and appellate practice, focused on complex commercial litigation and arbitrations. Extensive trial and appellate experience including in cases considering breach of contract, patents, shareholder disputes, taxation, oppression, professional negligence, and breaches of fiduciary duties. Appears before juries, arbitration panels, administrative and regulatory tribunals, and appellate courts of all levels, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
McCarthy Tétrault
Sarit Pandya
Sarit Pandya is a Partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Real Property and Planning Group in Toronto. He acts for and advises clients on all aspects of transactions in the commercial real estate industry, including secured financings (including syndicated bank facilities, project and construction financing and traditional mortgage lending), acquisitions and dispositions across all real estate asset classes, construction and project development, and the structuring of real estate transactions (including private equity investments, partnerships, and fund formations). He has significant experience in and has advised on transactions across all asset classes, including multifamily, industrial, long-term care, office, and hospitality properties.
McCarthy Tétrault
Scott Chalmers
Scott is a partner in the Business Law Group in Toronto and leads McCarthy Tétrault’s National Construction Group. His career focus has been entirely on construction law, largely for owners, sponsors, developers and lenders. He is qualified and practiced in Ontario, Texas, England and Wales, and Australia and has done projects in over 40 countries. His extensive global experience includes advising on some of the largest and most complex infrastructure and construction projects in the world. Prior to his legal career, Scott practised for a decade as an architect in Australia and Canada. He has on the ground experience on a wide array of projects globally in several industry sectors, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, LNG, road and rail infrastructure, power (nuclear, gas, coal, renewables), mining and metals, shipbuilding and architecture.
McCarthy Tétrault
Scott Clarke
Scott focuses on mergers and acquisitions, power projects, corporate finance, private equity, and governance. He has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border acquisitions and financings, as well as distressed M&A and corporate arrangements. Scott acts as counsel to issuers and underwriters across many sectors, including renewable energy, power, oilfield services, resource exploration and development, manufacturing, technology, real estate, aviation and healthcare and mental wellness. Through his extensive power practice, Scott has significant experience in project development, joint ventures and project financings. He acts for both bidders and targets on take-over bids and plans of arrangement (negotiated and hostile), as well as public and private restructurings and financings (including distressed), and regularly advises issuers in connection with corporate governance requirements, continuous disclosure obligations and stock exchange compliance (Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange). A significant portion of Scott's practice involves advising boards of directors on governance matters, including special committee representation for acquisition transactions and strategic processes.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Scott Cochlan
Scott Cochlan is a leading capital markets lawyer with experience across industries, including oil and gas, industrials and manufacturing, and life sciences. Scott is co-head of Torys’ Capital Markets Practice. His practice includes securities and corporate law, with an emphasis on corporate finance and M&A. Scott’s pragmatic approach and extensive experience help issuers and underwriters in various complex matters, including domestic and cross-border public/private equity and debt financings, M&A, and other business reorganizations and restructurings. Scott also represents senior and junior public issuers in numerous aspects of general corporate law and securities regulatory matters, including corporate governance, continuous disclosure, regulatory compliance and transaction implementation.
Torys
Scott H. Wilson
Partner
Dentons
Scott Kraag
One of Canada's leading project finance lawyers, Scott gives clients rigorous, solution-focused counsel to help them advance their objectives in lending matters of all levels of complexity. Head of Torys’ Project Finance practice and co-head of the Banking and Debt Finance practice, Scott has broad experience representing all of the principal parties on projects, including lenders, sponsors, equity investors, arrangers and underwriters, contractors, service providers and public authorities, on a variety of complex project finance transactions. His work regularly focuses on the energy, infrastructure and mining industries. Scott’s finance experience extends to corporate banking transactions and he frequently advises lenders and borrowers in transactions which include bank credit facilities, bond financings, structured finance transactions, mezzanine financings and derivatives.
Torys
Scott Kugler
Partner National Lead - Class Action Defence Group (Canada) National Lead - Commercial Litigation Practice Group (Canada)
Gowling WLG
Scott Smythe
Partner in the Real Property and Planning Group in the firm’s Vancouver office. Practice is focused on commercial real estate and related corporate matters, with particular expertise in land acquisitions, land development, structuring, strata property, commercial leasing and real-estate related corporate reorganizations. Acts for several leading real estate investors and developers, as well as owners of major office towers, industrial parks and shopping centres. Extensive experience with the structuring, acquisition, financing, development, leasing and sale of significant residential, industrial, retail, office and mixed-use projects.
McCarthy Tétrault
Scott Sweatman
Partner
Dentons
Sean Assié
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Sean Boyle
Sean’s litigation practice focuses on all aspects of complex commercial disputes with an emphasis on securities litigation, mining disputes, and defending class actions. He frequently advises on compliance with domestic and international anticorruption legislation, including investigations and due diligence. Sean has extensive experience in take-over bid litigation, contested merger transactions, plans of arrangements and shareholder dissent proceedings. He regularly advises directors and officers of corporation on their duties and obligations relating to corporate governance and business disputes such as derivative actions, oppression remedies and shareholder disputes. Sean also defends clients in complex multi-jurisdictional matters before provincial securities commissions and other securities regulatory organizations throughout Canada. His experience also includes a lengthy secondment to the British Columbia Securities Commission (enforcement division).
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Sean Collins
Sean has widespread experience in all forms of complex corporate, financial and operational restructurings and insolvency proceedings, including representing debtors, distressed investors, private equity funds, hedge funds, boards of directors, court officers, creditors and contractual counterparties in both court-supervised and out-of-court restructurings. Sean has extensive experience in international cross-border insolvency proceedings.
McCarthy Tétrault