Lawyers in Canada
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Tim Phillips
Tim's practice is focused on capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters. Tim’s transactional practice covers all aspects of public and private debt and equity markets, transactions, structures and products, including offerings of investment grade, convertible, and high-yield debt, equity bought deals, at-the-market offerings, secondary block trades, margin loans and equity derivatives structures such as capped calls, forwards, swaps and collars. He also advises on establishing shelf financing programs both for domestic offerings as well as cross-border offerings under the Canada/US multi-jurisdictional system. In Tim’s regulatory practice, he advises a wide range of market participants, including issuers, underwriters, dealers, fund managers, exchanges, clearinghouses, alternative trading systems and trade associations, on Canadian capital markets and derivatives regulation, compliance, trading, netting and collateral issues.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Timothy McCormick
Regional Group Manager and a Partner in the M&A and Capital Markets Group
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Timothy P. Kirby, TEP
Partner Areas of Practice Tax Planning Estate Planning Corporate Tax Planning Mergers & Acquisitions Personal Tax Planning
Felesky Flynn LLP
Tom Stevenson
Tom advises clients across all areas of pension governance and employment law, including in the context of corporate and commercial transactions. He also regularly advises clients regarding the interpretation and application of pension, employment, labour and human rights legislation in the workplace, as well as assisting clients in the drafting and implementation of pension and employment documentation and practices.
Torys
Tom Zverina
With a broad background in debt financing, Tom’s significant experience in lending and financing matters is backed by a pragmatic approach that helps clients successfully execute high-stakes projects and complex domestic and international transactions. Tom’s diverse practice covers a wide range of debt financing work, including the financing of M&A transactions; wind, solar and hydro project financing; asset-backed loans; public and private debt securities; railcar financing; equipment leasing; reinsurance security arrangements; and derivatives products. Tom is also regularly involved in creating and implementing innovative and unique tax-driven structured debt transactions, bringing deep market understanding and insight to his work.
Torys
Tony Crossman
With more than 30 years of experience, Tony’s practice focuses on environmental and natural resource regulation & management, corporate compliance, due diligence, and litigation matters. His work includes contaminated sites (sale and remediation), environmental permitting (of projects and facilities), hazardous substances and defending environmental charges. Tony works in the energy (including renewable), mining, forestry, manufacturing, real estate, infrastructure, waste management and transportation sectors.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Tony DeMarinis
Tony is a widely recognized leader in his field, with decades of experience playing pivotall roles in prominent and successful Canadian and cross-border restructurings and insolvencies. Clients call upon his leading corporate and insolvency experience to drive many of this field’s most demanding transactions and proceedings. As Chair of Torys’ Canadian Corporate Restructuring and Advisory Practice, Tony advises a wide range of leading clients on all aspects of corporate financial restructurings or insolvencies, including transactions and proceedings involving negotiated workouts, recapitalizations, debt exchanges, re-financings, distressed investments and acquisitions, court proceedings under the federal Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act or Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, plans of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act, sales auctions, bridge and debtor-in-possession loans, and receiverships. Tony’s clients include public companies seeking to re-finance or restructure debt, lenders and lending syndicates, ad hoc bondholder groups, bridge and debtor-in-possession lenders, financial sponsors, distressed business purchasers, exit lenders, receivers, monitors and information officers. He has deep expertise across many industry sectors, including energy, mining, oil and gas, retail, entertainment, manufacturing, financial services, real estate, media, tobacco, forestry, agriculture, telecommunications and technology.
Torys
Trent J. Blanchette
Partner Areas of Practice Tax Planning Audits & CRA Proposals Corporate Tax Planning Objections Personal Tax Planning Tax Litigation Estate Planning Voluntary Disclosures Tax Representation & Litigation
Felesky Flynn LLP
Trevor Lawson
Trevor Lawson is a partner in McCarthy Tetrault’s Labour & Employment Group in Toronto. Trevor's broad practice encompasses all aspects of labour and employment-related litigation, labour relations, corporate transactions, executive compensation and privacy. He has represented employers in proceedings before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Ontario Labour Relations Board, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, boards of arbitration, coroner’s inquests and other administrative tribunals. His clients carry on business in a wide range of sectors, including hospitality, retail, consumer goods, gaming, manufacturing, property management, banking and finance. Trevor is the Hospitality sector lead as part of the firm’s National Retail and Consumer Markets group.
McCarthy Tétrault
Trisha Robertson
Trisha practices securities and corporate law, advising publicly listed companies on mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance transactions, joint ventures, royalty and stream transactions, as well as on general corporate matters and compliance with securities legislation. She has particular experience advising mining companies on complex financing transactions as well as negotiated business combinations and take-over bids, advising special committees on acquisitions and going-private transactions, advising target boards vis a vis activist shareholders, and advising buyers and sellers in private equity and strategic acquisitions. She represents companies in all aspects of their corporate activities, including with respect to commercial agreements, compliance and reporting, corporate governance, continuous disclosure and equity-based compensation arrangements. Trisha is a member of The Law Society of British Columbia, the Law Society of Ontario and the Nova Scotia Bar Association.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Tristan Neill
Associate
Gowling WLG
Troy Ungerman
Partner, Canadian Co-Head of Mergers and Acquisitions
Norton Rose Fulbright
Tyrel Henderson
Tyrel practises in the area of corporate lending and project financing. He represents both financial institutions and corporate clients on a range of financing arrangements, including project financing, syndicated bank transactions, cross-border financing, real estate financing, acquisition financing and asset-based lending. While his experience covers a wide range of industries, he has a particular focus on financings in the oil and gas, oil sands, pipeline, energy services and renewable power sectors.
Torys
Tyson Dyck
An experienced environmental lawyer with involvement across energy and infrastructure, mining and metals, and climate change, Tyson brings strategic acumen, skillful advocacy and technical insight to his work advising clients on the environmental, health and safety aspects of their most complex matters. In the energy and infrastructure sector, Tyson works extensively on the development, permitting and financing of high-profile projects across Canada, having advised on more than 50 wind, solar, gas, hydro and energy storage projects, together representing over 5,000 MW in installed capacity. He advises on major transmission and distribution projects, including electricity transmission lines and natural gas pipelines. Tyson gives strategic advice in navigating the complex and often challenging environmental assessment and permitting processes, as well as on negotiations with regulatory agencies, Indigenous communities, local municipalities and other stakeholders. He has advised clients on dozens of proceedings before the Ontario Energy Board, Environmental Review Tribunal, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, National Energy Board, Niagara Escarpment Commission and other administrative tribunals. In the mining and metals sector, Tyson acts for companies acquiring, financing, developing and operating major uranium, potash, coal and precious metals operations across the country. He regularly advises these clients on stakeholder relations and permitting, compliance and enforcement matters, including investigations and prosecutions under provincial and federal environmental laws. He has also worked with the national industry association on matters relating to the Fisheries Act and Metal and Diamond Mining Effluent Regulations. Tyson is also recognized as a leading lawyer in climate change policy and regulation, particularly on the carbon pricing systems adopted across North America. He has advised clients with responsibility for over 40,000 kilotonnes of greenhouse gas emissions on the formation of and compliance with these systems, as well as on emissions offset projects, emissions trading and climate change-related disclosure. Tyson advises clients in many other sectors, including pulp and paper, water treatment, communications, iron and steel, chemicals and manufacturing. He provides advice on the full range of issues in the environmental and energy-regulatory fields, including environmental assessments, project permitting, contaminated sites remediation, endangered species protection, spills response and reporting and the inspection, investigation and defence of environmental offences.
Torys
Tzen-Yi Goh
Maintains a general real estate practice, with a particular emphasis on real estate financings (including private placements (mortgage bonds), credit tenant financings, syndicated bank facilities, project financing and commercial mortgage lending), acquisitions and sales, property development and commercial leasing (including solar panel rooftop leases). Has extensive experience in the area of public offerings/private placements of commercial mortgage-backed securities.
McCarthy Tétrault
Una Radoja
Una is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Litigation Group, and a leading lawyer in environmental law and commercial litigation. With over a decade of experience representing diverse clients, from small businesses to large, multi-national corporations, Una delivers strategic advice that enables them to resolve challenges and attain their business goals. In her commercial litigation and dispute resolution practice, Una acts for both plaintiffs and defendants on high-profile and multi-faceted matters, involving contractual and shareholder disputes, claims against directors and officers, and real estate related disputes. In her environmental law practice, Una advises clients on all aspects of major project development, including federal impact assessments, permitting and approvals pursuant to applicable provincial legislation, appeals and judicial reviews of regulatory decisions, environmental incident reporting, risk management, and regulatory investigations and compliance. She is a leading expert on contaminated site redevelopment, risk management, regulation and litigation.
McCarthy Tétrault
Usman Sheikh
Usman Sheikh is Chair of the Blockchain, AI & Fintech Practice (Canada). He is a Partner in Baker McKenzie's Toronto office, a member of the Firm's Transactional Practice Group and is also a member of the Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice Group. He leads the Firm's blockchain team (consisting of over 150 lawyers) globally, and co-leads the Firm's artificial intelligence (AI) team in North America. A highly regarded thought leader on emerging technology, Usman is often called upon globally by heads of governments, as well as key regulatory and governmental bodies, to provide insight and strategic input on legal and regulatory developments relating to emerging technologies, including FinTech, blockchain technology / digital assets, artificial intelligence (AI), Web2/Web3, quantum computing and the internet of things (IoT). Usman was named as one of the "Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers" by Canadian Lawyer (2018) and he is the only lawyer in Canada to be ranked Band 1 for FinTech by Chambers for five consecutive years (2020 - 2024). He was also recognized in Toronto Life's The Influentials 2021 list, an annual feature that highlights Toronto's most influential people over the last 12 months. Author of over 25 legal and academic publications, Usman is set to publish The Law of Blockchain Technology (Thomson Carswell) in 2025. As a global thought leader on emerging technology and digital transformation, Usman has addressed the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He has also co-lectured with the heads of blockchain for Nasdaq and the TMX, and has also presented to the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) (then, IIROC and the MFDA), the Law Society of Ontario (LSO), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA), and several other regulatory and industry organizations on a range of topics including AI regulatory / legal developments, AI governance frameworks, decentralized finance (DeFi), crypto custody, digital wallets, NFTs, crypto exchanges (crypto asset trading platforms), the metaverse and more. Since 2019, Usman has also been serving as an Adjunct Professor with the University of Toronto (Faculty of Law), teaching a course entitled "Blockchain, Digital Assets, and the Law."
Baker McKenzie
Valerie Cross
Partner
Dentons
Valerie Helbronner
By applying creative solutions and managing strong relationships among numerous project participants, Valerie supports clients to progress some of the country’s most complex multi-party infrastructure and energy projects. Valerie has been at the forefront of the development and financing of renewable energy projects across Canada. She worked on some of the earliest and most innovative renewable projects, including Erie Shores Wind Farm, Grand Renewables Solar and Henvey Inlet Wind Farm, as well as PPAs in connection with Emera’s proposed Atlantic Link Project. Valerie acts for the spectrum of clients involved in project development and financing, including Indigenous groups, project proponents, lenders, investors, contractors and governmental authorities. Trusted counsel to Indigenous and non-Indigenous project participants, Valerie often advises on complex infrastructure projects impacting Indigenous interests and parties, where she brings a robust perspective on different parties’ interests and priorities. She is the co-head of Torys’ Indigenous practice and her recent project work related to Indigenous involvement notably includes the Wataynikaneyap Transmission Project in northwestern Ontario and working with The Honorable Frank Iacobucci in advising the Government of Canada in its re-initiated consultation process with Indigenous groups on the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project. Valerie has held various industry appointments in the power sector including serving as a board member of the Canadian Wind Energy Association, past Chair of the Ontario Waterpower Association, and past member of the Independent Electricity System Operator Stakeholder Advisory Committee.
Torys
Valerie Mann
Valerie (Val) is the Chair of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Group and of the firm's Technology Law Group; her practice is transactional (mergers and acquisitions / corporate finance) as well as advisory. After obtaining an honours bachelor of commerce degree, Val worked in marketing management with a large US based consumer packaged goods company, prior to obtaining her law degree. Val is the former Managing Partner of Lawson Lundell. She has been involved in transactions for private and public companies including mergers and acquisitions, financing and corporate reorganizations as well as, strategic alliances and joint ventures. Her practice includes acting for public and private companies as well as for private equity firms and large institutional investors. She has significant experience in private equity and venture fund formations. Val has been lead counsel on a number of large mid-market transactions including in the resource/commodities, real property (acquisitions and joint ventures for the development of industrial, and other commercial property) and manufacturing sectors in addition to acquisition activity in the technology sector. In 2017, Val obtained her ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors and the Rotman School of Management.
Lawson Lundell LLP
Valérie Marcas
Senior Legal Counsel
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Vikki-Ann Flansberry
Partner
Dentons
Vincent Frenette
Regional Managing Partner, Montréal
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Vincent Yip
Partner in the firm’s national Intellectual Property and Business Law Groups. Based in Vancouver, leads the firm’s Western Canadian intellectual property practice and has a national practice, working closely with clients of the Calgary, Toronto, and Montréal offices. Practice focuses on the global acquisition, commercialization, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including drafting and prosecuting patent and trademark applications; managing trademark oppositions, rendering patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate, and infringement opinions; and resolving intellectual property rights disputes. Has significant experience in the prosecution and management of global patent and trademark portfolios. As a patent and trademark lawyer with substantial corporate and commercial expertise, provides intellectual property advice on complex corporate and commercial transactions, including licensing, research and collaboration agreements, mergers & acquisitions, reorganizations, and financing transactions.
McCarthy Tétrault