Lawyers in Canada
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Sean Del Giallo
Partner
Dentons
Sean Jackson
Sean’s practice is primarily focused on intellectual property litigation where he represents clients from a range of industries, such as pharmaceuticals, medical products, oil and gas, and telecommunications. Sean regularly advises and represents clients from the pharmaceutical industry in proceedings under the Patented Medicines Notice of Compliance Regulations (PM(NOC) Regulations). He has appeared before the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal and was part of a trial team that secured a damages award exceeding C$120-million. Whether asserting IP rights or defending against allegations of infringement, Sean takes pride in using his Ph.D. in biochemistry to merge science and the law into creative solutions for his clients.
Cassels
Sean M. Zubryckji
Partner Areas of Practice Tax Planning Audit &CRA Proposals Corporate Tax Planning Objections Personal Tax Planning Tax Litigations Estate Planning Voluntary Disclosures Tax Representation & Litigation
Felesky Flynn LLP
Sean Maxwell
Sean Maxwell is a seasoned pension, benefits, and executive compensation lawyer with 20+ years of experience. He is Partner at BMKP Law LLP, a pension, benefits, and executive compensation law boutique. Sean advises employers, plan administrators, and financial institutions on pension governance matters, pension fund investments, plan terminations, plan administration and compliance issues, surplus utilization and withdrawal, and the implementation of new pension and employee benefit plans. His expertise includes issues arising from corporate transactions and commercial insolvencies, and the establishment and implementation of incentive compensation arrangements, including phantom stock, stock option, deferred share unit (DSU) and share appreciation rights plans, employee profit‑sharing plans, and supplementary retirement plans. Sean has twice been seconded to major Canadian financial institutions to assist with pension and benefit‑related matters and actively participates in organizations advocating for the Canadian retirement industry. Sean has been recognized by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, Lexpert, and the Lexology Index, was featured on Benefits and Pensions Monitor’s 2025 Hot List and was named one of Thomson Reuters’ Stand‑out Lawyers in 2021.
BMKP Law
Sean Muggah
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Sean Sadler
Practice focused on securities trading and adviser regulation, particularly advising Canadian and non-resident dealers and advisers on offering services in Canada. Regularly advises registrants on private placements, commodity futures and OTC derivatives trading, acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations of registrants and merger of investment fund complexes and establishment of investment fund businesses. Has, together with local counsel, assisted clients in establishing or restructuring investment funds in non-Canadian jurisdictions including, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands and Mauritius. Regularly advises on securities law/IIROC/MFDA compliance and enforcement matters, and white collar defense and internal investigations on matters involving securities. Has taught various securities law subjects at Canadian law schools.
McCarthy Tétrault
Sean Smyth
Sean has appeared before all levels of court in Alberta, the superior courts of Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan, the Federal Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada, and many regulatory, disciplinary and arbitral tribunals. Represents clients in various industries (oil and natural gas, pharmaceuticals, agrosciences, telecommunications, manufacturing, real estate) in contentious matters involving commercial contracts, shareholders’ rights, directors’ liabilities, securities, real estate transactions, product liability, intellectual property rights, class actions, and other matters related to corporate law and commercial transactions.
McCarthy Tétrault
Sean Smyth KC
Sean has appeared before all levels of court in Alberta, the superior courts of Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan, the Federal Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada, and many regulatory, disciplinary and arbitral tribunals. Represents clients in various industries (oil and natural gas, pharmaceuticals, agrosciences, telecommunications, manufacturing, real estate) in contentious matters involving commercial contracts, shareholders’ rights, directors’ liabilities, securities, real estate transactions, product liability, intellectual property rights, class actions, and other matters related to corporate law and commercial transactions.
McCarthy Tétrault
Sean Stephenson
Counsel
Dentons
Sean Wallace
Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright
Sean Zweig
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Sebastian L. Pyzik
Partner
Woods LLP
Seema Lal
Commercial and Business Litigation Construction and Infrastructure Law Construction Projects (Front-End Services)
Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
Selina Lee-Andersen
Partner in the firm’s Vancouver Business Law Group. Specializes in environmental law, corporate/commercial law, regulatory law, compliance, and Aboriginal law issues across sectors. Areas of specialization include environmental assessment and permitting, contaminated sites, environmental management systems, fuel standards, product stewardship, product and food safety, and partnering with Indigenous groups. Expertise in climate change law and advising clients on matters relating to carbon pricing, emissions trading, offset systems, compliance, and carbon disclosure. Regularly advises non-profit organizations on regulatory and commercial aspects of managing plastic waste in the ocean.
McCarthy Tétrault
Sepideh Nassabi
Sepideh Nassabi is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Intellectual Property Practice Group in Toronto. She has been a Trademark Agent for over a decade and has significant experience in trademark prosecution. Sepideh graduated from the University of Windsor Law School and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University.
Baker McKenzie
Seumas Woods
Seumas is a senior partner in the Blakes Litigation Group. He has a varied corporate-commercial law practice. His practice encompasses acting and advising in respect of many different types of disputes in a wide mix of industries. Among the matters on which he has acted are securities and shareholder disputes, transactional securities litigation, construction disputes, mining disputes, general commercial disputes, landlord-tenant matters, gaming-related claims, franchise and distributorship disputes, personal injury claims and estate and trust matters. Seumas has appeared as counsel before all levels of courts and tribunals in Ontario, as well as in numerous arbitrations and mediations. He brings with him a strong knowledge of the law, as well as a practical, common sense approach to legal problems.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Seán O\'Neill
Co-Lead of the firm’s National Energy Group and Partner in the firm’s Toronto office. Significant experience representing domestic and foreign investors and sponsors in a variety of conventional and energy transition assets, including electricity transmission and distribution, district energy, energy storage, hydrogen, and all electricity generation technologies including nuclear. Has assisted financial institutions and borrowers on project financings and re-financings of power projects across Canada and in the US. Regularly acts for project developers and sponsors negotiating commercial arrangements in the sector, including power purchase and energy service agreements, and joint-venturing and Indigenous participation arrangements.
McCarthy Tétrault
Seán O’Neill
Co-Lead of the firm’s National Energy Group and Partner in the firm’s Toronto office. Significant experience representing domestic and foreign investors and sponsors in a variety of conventional and energy transition assets, including electricity transmission and distribution, district energy, energy storage, hydrogen, and all electricity generation technologies including nuclear. Has assisted financial institutions and borrowers on project financings and re-financings of power projects across Canada and in the US. Regularly acts for project developers and sponsors negotiating commercial arrangements in the sector, including power purchase and energy service agreements, and joint-venturing and Indigenous participation arrangements.
McCarthy Tétrault
Shailaz Dhalla
Shailaz practices regulatory and administrative law with a focus on energy, environmental, public utility and Indigenous law matters. She has knowledge and experience navigating complex regulatory processes for various industries and energy development activities including, oil sands mines, pipelines, oil and gas waste disposal, wind-power and solar projects, carbon sequestration projects, transmission lines, power plants and other facilities. Shailaz represents industry clients at public hearings before various regulatory tribunals including the Alberta Energy Regulator, the Alberta Utilities Commission, the Land and Property Rights Tribunal and the Canadian Energy Regulator. She also represents clients before various government agencies across Canada and has appeared before the Alberta Court of Appeal, the Alberta Provincial Court and the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. Her clients include the largest independent natural gas and heavy crude oil producer in Canada and several companies in the natural resource and utility sectors in Canada. Shailaz’s practice also includes providing general and project specific legal advice on issues pertaining to regulatory licensing requirements and environmental assessments, contaminated sites due diligence and remediation, surface rights acquisition and compensation, carbon tax implications and emissions management, Indigenous consultation, and the negotiation and drafting of impact benefit agreement with Indigenous groups. Shailaz has specific expertise defending industry clients against regulatory objections and has assisted on numerous matters enabling clients to obtain regulatory approvals without a hearing. She also represents clients in relation to spills and regulatory compliance matters and works closely with environmental consultants, engineers and industry experts to prepare applications, regulatory submissions and expert reports. Shailaz also has experience in consumer protection legislation and privacy matters, including the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by the government and the private sector. Shailaz is the Chair of the firm’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee which is responsible for identifying and guiding the implementation of measures to further advance equity, diversity and inclusion at Lawson Lundell. Prior to joining Lawson Lundell, Shailaz practiced with a leading national law firm and as legal counsel with the Alberta Utilities Commission.
Lawson Lundell LLP
Shane Freitag
National Leader, Electricity Markets
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Shannon Hayes
Shannon Hayes practices commercial litigation and arbitration and is the Leader of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group in the firm’s Calgary office. She has been practicing for more than 20 years in dispute resolution and has a broad range of experience on commercial and business dispute matters, working with companies in a wide range of industries, including energy, power, real estate, and technology. Shannon has appeared as counsel before all levels of court in Alberta and acted in many private arbitrations. Clients regularly request Shannon to act on complex contractual and business tort disputes as she is known for creative and think outside-the-box solutions to achieve her client’s goals in the most practical way. Shannon is also keen to take on neutral arbitration work and is on the roster of panelists for the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre for domestic expedited arbitrations. Shannon is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a member of the Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society, the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee and the International Bar Association, and is recognised by Chambers, Best Lawyers in Canada, Benchmark Litigation, Legal 500, Lexology, and as a Thomson Reuters “Stand-out Lawyer.”
Lawson Lundell LLP
Sharon Au
Partner
MLT Aikins LLP
Sharon Vogel
Alternative Dispute Resolution Construction and Infrastructure Law Construction Projects (Front-End Services) Domestic and International Arbitration Insurance Professional Liability Public Policy
Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
Shaun Laubman
Shaun is a highly-regarded commercial litigator. With two decades of experience practicing first in New York and then as a partner at one of Canada’s top commercial litigation boutiques, Shaun has broad expertise dealing with complex corporate-commercial disputes, shareholder disputes, securities and financial services litigation, real estate disputes and family and estate matters. He also specializes in franchise litigation, particularly in the automotive sector. Throughout his career, Shaun has earned a reputation as an erudite and effective litigator. Clients praise him for his responsiveness, strategic thinking, and his excellent written and oral advocacy skills. He has been lauded for finding creative approaches to complex litigation issues. He appears at arbitrations, trials, and appeals as well as administrative hearings and judicial reviews. Shaun has been recognized for his commercial litigation talents by Chambers, Benchmark Litigation, Lexpert, The Legal 500, The Best Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. He also received Lexpert Rising Star: Leading Lawyer Under 40 recognition. Shaun is a former Chair of the University of Toronto Academic Discipline Tribunal, is a past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Civil Litigation Executive and has sat as a member of the Users Committee for the Commercial List of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Shaun graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he was class valedictorian. He then clerked at the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP