Lawyers in Canada
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Sylvie Bouvette
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Sylvie Rodrigue
Sylvie is one of Canada’s top litigators, recognized for her versatility representing clients across jurisdictions and industries, in all manner of disputes. She is known nationwide for her strong class action, product liability and commercial disputes experience, and she is one of the few counsel in Canada who defends cases in both Québec and common law provinces. With a broad litigation practice and extensive experience defending cases in all provinces across Canada, including class actions both pre-certification and at trial, Sylvie has a formidable track record supporting clients in their highest-profile disputes. Sylvie has been involved in a wide range of litigation matters, including multi-jurisdictional class actions, relating to product liability, drugs and medical devices, banking, privacy, constitutional law, competition law, consumer complaints, civil liability, employment matters, securities, large tort and negligence. She regularly represents clients in the banking, retail, technology, manufacturing, communication, real estate, railway, aviation and pharmaceutical industries in a variety of commercial disputes. Sylvie has appeared before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2021, she successfully represented the Canadian Olympic Committee and Olympian Mandy Bujold against the International Olympic Committee before the Court of Arbitration for Sports in Switzerland on a pro bono basis. The legal challenge, which led to Ms. Bujold’s participation at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, raised human rights and discrimination issues on the basis of pregnancy and resulted in a landmark decision for the benefit of female athletes worldwide. Sylvie was awarded the designation of Advocatus Emeritus by the Québec Bar, a distinction awarded to a limited number of lawyers to honour an outstanding legal career, remarkable contribution to the profession and dedicated efforts to social or community services. She was also recognized by the WXN in 2016 and 2019 as one of Canada’s Top 100 Women and was named 2021 Litigator of the Year by Canadian Law Awards. She is consistently recognized by Benchmark as one of Canada’s top female litigators and by Chambers and other ranking publications for her work in product liability and class action matters. Sylvie leads our Montréal office, as well as Torys’ national Class Action practice.
Torys
Sébastien Gittens
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Sébastien Vilder
Sébastien is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Montréal office, where his practice primarily centers on project finance. Over the course of his career, he has led numerous bank and project financings across Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. His practice also encompasses renewable energy and infrastructure mandates. Sébastien regularly represents financial institutions, investment funds, development banks, sponsors and corporate borrowers. Most recently, he advised the sponsor on the financings of two battery-storage projects in Ontario, representing a combined capacity of 380 MW. He also acted for a syndicate of lenders in the approximately C$608 million financing of the 204 MW Apuiat wind farm in Québec. Respected by peers, clients and leading legal publications alike, Sébastien has amassed an impressive 20-year track record in energy and project finance.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Tara Mackay
Tara provides unique cross-border perspective and deep experience in both the United States and Canada on large-scale infrastructure projects, including public-private partnerships. Tara works closely with different types of clients, including private developers, equity providers, lenders, underwriters, public authorities, construction contractors and service providers on all aspects of the implementation of major infrastructure projects. Called to both the New York and Ontario bars, she has played a key role in multiple award-winning infrastructure projects in the U.S. and Canada. Her versatile practice involves projects across a wide range of infrastructure asset classes, including transportation, transit, telecommunications, education, water and wastewater, justice and healthcare.
Torys
Tarik-Alexandre Chbani
President and partner at Lanctot Avocats, s.a., a Montréal-based Quebec law firm founded in 1993 and recognized as one of the leading Canadian boutiques in professional and disciplinary law. Me Tarik-Alexandre Chbani heads the firm's strategic development and leads complex mandates in professional and disciplinary law, civil and commercial litigation, real estate and construction law, and sports law. Operating in both French and English, Me Chbani is regularly retained by Quebec professional regulatory bodies (ordres professionnels), their syndics, foreign and Canadian corporations, real estate developers, construction industry players and professional athletes. His practice is geared toward businesses seeking experienced Quebec counsel for high-stakes regulatory matters, business disputes and risk management, with particular relevance for foreign companies establishing operations in Quebec navigating regulatory and litigation challenges within the province's civil-law jurisdiction. Me Chbani is recognized for his pragmatic, business-oriented approach, his ability to handle high-pressure mandates before all levels of Quebec courts and quasi-judicial tribunals, and his commitment to delivering strategic, results-driven legal advice.
Lanctot Avocats
Taryn Urquhart
Taryn Urquhart maintains a regulatory litigation and administrative law practice with a focus on transportation matters. Taryn’s transportation practice principally focuses on providing complex regulatory advice to private and public sector clients on the provincial and federal regulatory requirements applicable to railways and adjacent industries. This includes advising on the construction, development and operation of railways, and in the areas of railway safety, security, level of services and related regulatory matters. She also provides strategic advice to shippers, ports, terminals and shortline railways in their interface with the Class I railways including with respect to confidential contracts, railway access issues, the development of crossings, sidings, spurs and other infrastructure, and discontinuance. Taryn regularly acts for shippers and public sector clients in pursuing statutory remedies under the Canada Transportation Act, the Canada Marine Act and other federal legislation including final offer arbitration, level of service arbitration, net salvage value determinations, judicial review and related commercial litigation. Taryn regularly appears before the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the British Columbia Supreme Court, and the British Columbia Court of Appeal. She also frequently appears before regulatory tribunals, arbitrators, and decision-makers including the Canadian Transportation Agency, Canadian International Trade Tribunal, and the federal and provincial privacy commissioners.
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Taylor Davis
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Tayyaba Khan
Tayyaba Khan is a partner in the Business Law Group at Cassels, focused on corporate and securities law matters. Tayyaba advises public and private companies, partnerships, startups and entrepreneurs in matters related to mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance, including private and public securities offerings, corporate governance, private equity, and venture capital transactions. She routinely advises cannabis companies, including licensed producers, retail operators and ancillary businesses, with respect to strategic transactions as well as day-to-day securities compliance, disclosure and corporate governance matters. Her experience in the industry includes M&A transactions for Canadian companies pursuing global expansion in the United States, Denmark, Germany, and Latin America. Tayyaba also has experience working with investors and technology companies at all stages of development with matters relating to incorporation, organization and acting on a variety of transactions, including private equity financings and exit transactions. Learn more.
Cassels
Ted Betts
Partner Head of Infrastructure and Construction Group
Gowling WLG
Ted Koffman
Partner in the firm’s Business Law Group and Technology Group in Vancouver. Practice focuses on providing general counsel to businesses, with a particular emphasis on mergers & acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, outsourcings, as well as the formation and financing of business ventures and corporate reorganizations. Regularly advises various technology companies, venture capitalists and investors in numerous equity and debt financings. Extensive experience in cross-border transactions. Lecturer at various programs and conferences on the legal aspects of buying and selling businesses, outsourcing agreements, and the formation of business ventures.
McCarthy Tétrault
Terence S. Dobbin
Managing Partner, Toronto Office, Senior Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Teresa Reguly
Teresa’s scientific fluency supports her broad intellectual property skills and business-minded approach, helping clients realize and manage their intellectual property and product regulatory strategy. Teresa provides ongoing advice to clients who sell regulated products in the food, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. She advises on intellectual property and regulatory issues in the chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical fields, including the validity patentability and infringement of intellectual property rights. Teresa has extensive experience with drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications and is frequently involved in drafting and negotiating IP licensing, research and development, co-promotion, marketing and confidentiality agreements for her clients. She also provides guidance on Food and Drugs Act compliance, establishment licensing, product licensing, packaging and labeling, drug pricing and formulary listings. She has deep knowledge in the advertising and promotion of consumer products, food and health products, as well as mandatory reporting and corrective actions. Her work regularly includes advising clients across industries on privacy issues, cross-border transfer of personal information and compliance with privacy law obligations, particularly involving personal health information. Teresa is a registered patent agent in Canada. In September 2009, she was awarded for having achieved the highest overall mark in Canada on the 2008 patent agent exams.
Torys
Terra Klinck
Terra Klinck is a leading pension and benefits lawyer with over 25 years of experience. She is the Managing Partner of BMKP Law LLP, a pension, benefits, and executive compensation law boutique. Terra advises provincially and federally regulated employers and plan administrators on matters relating to defined benefit and defined contribution arrangements and supplementary pension plans. Her expertise includes governance, fiduciary responsibilities, regulatory compliance, plan administration, funding requirements, pension fund investment, and surplus utilization strategies. Terra has a wealth of experience advising private sector employers on the restructuring of legacy defined benefit pension arrangements, including investment restructuring, de-risking initiatives (such as annuity transactions), plan mergers, and wind-ups. She also has extensive experience advising on pension and benefit matters in the context of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, insolvencies, and restructurings. Terra has received the Lexpert Zenith Award for mid‑career excellence and was recognized as an Elite Woman by Benefits and Pensions Monitor in 2025. She has also been recognized by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, and the Lexology Index.
BMKP Law
Terri-Lee Oleniuk
Terri-Lee’s practice focuses on project-related issues in natural-resource development, specializing in regulatory, environmental, and Aboriginal law. She assists companies in environmental assessments and regulatory proceedings to secure approvals for major developments in the oil and gas, pipeline, mining (metal, potash, and diamond), natural-gas processing, petrochemical, electricity transmission, hydro, solar, wind, and energy storage sectors. Terri-Lee frequently advises on and negotiates agreements with Indigenous groups. She also represents clients before administrative tribunals in matters such as tolls and tariffs proceedings, regulatory investigations, and inquiries. Additionally, she provides strategic advice on ESG matters. Terri-Lee has appeared before the Canada Energy Regulator, Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Utilities Commission, Alberta Land and Property Rights Tribunal, British Columbia Utilities Commission, Alberta Natural Resources Conservation Board, Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board, Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board, and federal-provincial joint review panels for environmental assessment proceedings.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Theo Ling
Theo Ling heads Baker McKenzie's Canadian technology and data practice and is a member of the Commercial, Data, IPTech, and Trade Practice Group, as well as the Technology, Media & Telecoms and Financial Institutions Industry Groups. Recognized for his expertise in artificial intelligence, data privacy, cybersecurity, information governance, technology media communications, and procurement law, Theo's practice lies at the intersection of technology, data, and law. Theo is ranked by several legal directories, including Chambers, Legal 500, and Best Lawyers, where he is described as "a knowledgeable technology lawyer, with a practical, 'can-do' attitude who is excellent at getting things done." Named by the Financial Times as one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Lawyers in North America, Theo founded the legal industry's first global legal innovation lab focused on multidisciplinary collaboration.
Baker McKenzie
Theresa Cesareo
Senior Associate
Dentons
Thomas Bauer
Partner, Co-Head of Tax
Bennett Jones LLP
Thomas Isaac
Thomas Isaac is Chair of the firm’s Aboriginal Law Group. A nationally recognized authority in Aboriginal law, Tom advises business and government clients across Canada on Aboriginal legal matters and related regulatory, environmental assessment, negotiations and constitutional issues. Tom has extensive national experience advising energy, oil, gas, pipeline, mining, forestry, real estate and transportation companies, and federal, provincial, territorial, municipal and Indigenous governments and agencies on Aboriginal, regulatory and constitutional matters. He regularly negotiates on behalf of industry and governments concerning impact, benefit, economic development, replacement tenure, and access agreements with Aboriginal groups, and advises on Aboriginal consultation and accommodation processes and agreements. In recognition of his important and significant work in this area, Tom was honoured as one of Canada’s “Top 25 Most Influential” lawyers by Canadian Lawyer magazine in 2018.
Cassels
Thomas J. Timmins
Partner Leader - Energy Sector Group (Canada)
Gowling WLG
Thomas Yeo
Thomas Yeo advises leading organizations on some of their most complex legal matters. He brings experienced corporate, securities and M&A counsel combined with significant public-sector experience to help clients execute their most important transactions. Thomas has a broad corporate practice, advising on matters ranging from corporate governance, procurement, securities law and M&A transactions. He has represented both acquirers and targets in a variety of public and private company M&A transactions, including a number of significant cross-border transactions, and issuers and investment banks in a wide range of domestic and international public offerings. He also works closely with federal and provincial Crown corporations and agencies on a variety of governance, corporate/commercial and procurement matters. Co-head of Torys’ Procurement group, Thomas advises both procuring entities and bidders on all aspects of the procurement process. Thomas also supports clients as a member of the firm’s research and opinions group, providing assessments of legal risk and solutions to avoid or mitigate those risks in any area of business—addressing contract and statutory interpretation in situations where the contract or the law is unclear or is difficult to apply.
Torys
Thomas von Hahn
Thomas is Co-Practice Group Leader of the Real Estate group. He is a trusted adviser to pension funds and institutional and private investors in the acquisition and disposition of real property and mortgage portfolios. He has been active in the privatization and disposition of government assets throughout Canada. He has structured real estate joint ventures and partnerships and placed financing secured by real estate on behalf of both individuals and institutions.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Tim Andison
Tim's practice focuses on a wide variety of M&A and debt and equity capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs), high-yield and other debt offerings, restructurings, and liability-management transactions. He has acted for numerous underwriters, issuers, financial sponsors, lenders and borrowers based in Canada, the United States, South America, Europe and Asia.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Tim Lawson
Tim is a partner in Toronto and the Head of McCarthy Tetrault’s National Labour and Employment Group. Practicing Canadian management-side labour and employment law on behalf of national and global employers. Provides advice and advocacy in all areas including union organizing, collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, provincial and federal labour boards, corporate structuring pre-and post-acquisition, human rights, employment standards, workers compensation, privacy, and pay and employment equity. Frequent author, interviewee and speaker on labour and employment issues and government policy.
McCarthy Tétrault