Lawyers in Canada
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Caroline Biron, Ad. E.
Caroline is a leading litigator with over 30 years of practice in commercial law, corporate law, employment law, civil litigation (including defamation issues), privacy and professional liability law. Her experience as a litigator covers a wide range of fields and she has handled complex legal matters involving fraud and cybersecurity issues, shareholder disputes, administrative and estate law. She also has significant experience defending class actions in the fields of contractual and extra-contractual liability, product liability, competition law, consumer law, privacy and personal data protection law and regularly intervenes in seizures and injunctions. She has appeared before all levels of court in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the Federal Court, as well as before several administrative tribunals and arbitration boards. Caroline frequently handles governance cases, including human resources issues and those involving internal investigations. Furthermore, Caroline advises companies and their boards of directors on risk management, ethics and corporate governance. She provides strategic advice in critical situations such as whistleblowing, security breaches, Privacy Commissioner investigations, Public Sector Integrity Commissioner investigations and class actions. In addition to her work as a lawyer, she works closely with her clients’ communications teams and public relations agencies. Before joining Blakes, Caroline was the managing partner of a boutique litigation law firm. Caroline is fluent in English and French.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Caroline Zayid
National Leader of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Practice focuses on product liability and class actions, at the trial and appellate levels. Has litigated many significant product liability cases including on behalf of manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and consumer products. Has also acted on numerous cross-border class actions in relation to health care, financial services, securities, and automotive products. Extensive experience in administrative and public law for public and private sector clients. Represents clients at all levels of courts including the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the courts of appeal of Ontario, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
McCarthy Tétrault
Cary Wong
Cary Wong is an experienced pension and benefits lawyer with Toronto based firm, BMKP Law LLP. Cary has practiced exclusively in the area of pension, benefits and executive compensation law for over 25 years. Cary has a wealth of experience providing advice to employers and plan administrators on legislative and regulatory compliance matters involving pension and benefit plans, including compliance with pension, tax and employment standards legislation. He assists clients with the interpretation of plan documents and day-to-day administration issues, such as pension division on marriage breakdown and benefit entitlements. He has extensive experience drafting clear and effective plan documents and member communications with a view to legislative compliance, and to reflect plan design changes, business reorganizations and corporate transactions. Cary has been recognized by Best Lawyers for his expertise.
BMKP Law
Casey Chisick
Casey Chisick is a partner at Cassels, serving as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, and as Chair of its Intellectual Property and Entertainment, Media & Sports practices. Certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Intellectual Property (Copyright), and having worked as a law professor, a jazz producer, a concert promoter, and a musician, Casey offers his clients a rare combination of recognized expertise in copyright and other IP matters and first-hand experience in the business of entertainment. He provides transactional advice and litigation counsel to clients in a wide array of industries, including music, film, television, broadcasting, theatre, video games, advertising, publishing, software, visual arts, new media, fitness and leisure, health care, fashion, and higher education. He also advises general business clients with IP needs and consults on negotiation strategy for businesses of all kinds. Learn more.
Cassels
Cassandra Brown
Cassandra is a Partner in the Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group at Blakes. She advises on all aspects of competition law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution practices, criminal and civil investigations, compliance, as well as foreign investment transactions under the Investment Canada Act. Her clients span a variety of industries, including energy, mining, technology, pharmaceutical, consumer products, agricultural, telecommunications, transportation, aviation, financial services, manufacturing, automotive and real estate. She has completed secondments to Coca-Cola Limited, a major international law firm based in London and the Blakes New York office. Cassandra is co-author of leading treatises including Competition Act: Commentary and Annotation; Competition and Antitrust Laws in Canada: Mergers, Joint Ventures and Competitor Collaborations, and The Foreign Investment Regulation Review (Canada Chapter), Third Edition. Cassandra is recognized as a leading lawyer in Chambers Canada: Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business 2022; Who’s Who Legal: Competition 2021 (Future Leaders – Partners) and The Legal 500 Canada 2021 (Next Generation Partner).
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Catherine Beagan Flood
Cathy is the co-Practice Group Leader of the Toronto Litigation group and also leads Blakes National Cybersecurity Working Group. Cathy has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in 20 appeals. Her national litigation practice has involved arguing before the trial courts of every province, in addition to appellate courts across Canada and a wide range of administrative and arbitration tribunals. She litigates complex commercial and regulatory cases and defends class actions with a regulatory component. In particular, she is currently defending clients in multiple privacy, antitrust, product liability and consumer protection class actions. Cathy has also represented the House of Commons before Commissions of Inquiry and has been counsel to and given evidence to provincial and federal legislative committees.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Catherine Gleason-Mercier
Alternative Dispute Resolution Arbitration Commercial and Business Litigation Construction and Infrastructure Law eDiscovery Services
Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
Catherine Pawluch
Catherine Pawluch is a partner in the firm's Toronto office. She is co-head of Canada's Transportation group and a member of the Anti-trust and Competition group. Catherine represents clients in relation to supply chain and distribution law matters, including compliance with trade, import, and export controls, including international transport and third party logistics companies and Fortune 500 manufacturers, producers, and retailers. Catherine’s regulatory law practice also focuses on competition law and foreign investment law, including the national security provisions of Canada’s Investment Canada Act. She has extensive experience in pre-merger approvals and has counselled U.S., Japanese, Asian and other foreign corporations across a range of industries, including the mining, energy and LNG industries, and the aviation, transportation, manufacturing, retailing and consumer products sectors. Catherine has obtained Competition Act and Investment Canada Act clearances for numerous merger transactions. She also has experience advising foreign companies that are the subject of multinational conspiracy and bid-rigging investigations in seeking immunity and in their dealings with the Criminal Branch of the Competition Bureau and the Public prosecution Service of Canada. Following the implementation of NAFTA, Catherine was invited as an expert in the field to participate on a tri-national committee to harmonize liability laws and to create a uniform bill of lading for surface transportation in the three NAFTA countries. Catherine has written extensively on foreign ownership restriction in various industry sectors.
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Catherine Samuel
Partner in the firm’s Business Law group and Technology Group in Calgary. Leads the National Procurement Group. Diverse practice focuses on complex M&A and commercial transactions, including private equity, acquisitions and divestitures, reorganizations, joint ventures, strategic projects, procurement, IT and outsourcing transactions. Extensive experience acting on cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions, including numerous Canadian market entry deals on behalf of foreign companies. Acts for Canadian and international clients in the energy, telecommunications, technology, retail, cannabis, financial services and healthcare industries.
McCarthy Tétrault
Catherine Youdan
Catherine is the Practice Group Leader of the Capital Markets group in Toronto. Catherine’s practice focuses on equity and debt capital market transactions, and mergers & acquisitions. She has acted for issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, secondary offerings and private placements, and for purchasers and target companies in public company acquisitions and purchasers and vendors in asset and share purchase transactions. Catherine also has experience representing special committees in connection with M&A transactions. Catherine has experience in industries such as financial services, healthcare, consumer/retail, and real estate. Catherine also provides ongoing advice to public issuers in various industry sectors with respect to corporate governance requirements, continuous disclosure obligations and stock exchange matters.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Chad Schneider
Chad’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity investments, joint ventures, corporate governance, restructurings and continuous disclosure compliance. Chad has assisted buyers, sellers and acquired companies in M&A transactions involving both public and private domestic and foreign parties. He has extensive experience in representing publicly traded issuers listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange, as well as private companies and private equity investors and their portfolio companies. He has acted on behalf of underwriters and dealers in domestic and foreign public and private offerings of equity and debt. Chad also assists clients with general corporate and commercial matters and his practice involves a variety of industry sectors, in particular the energy industry.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Chandimal Nicholas
Chandimal Nicholas is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at Cassels, and is also a Registered Trademark Agent. Chandimal assists clients in all areas of intellectual property law with a focus on patents and trademarks. Chandimal also assists and advises clients with regulatory issues in the cannabis, food, alcohol, pharmaceutical, medical device, cosmetic and natural health products industries. Learn more.
Cassels
Chantal Arsenault
Chantal Arsenault is a partner in the MT>iplus immigration practice in Montreal. She has been practising in immigration law and professional mobility since 1995, providing advice on immigration issues to small and medium-sized companies as well as large international corporations. Known for her proactive approach, she accompanies her clients in their projects to bring foreign workers to Canada. Her clients span a wide range of industries, including technology, entertainment, sports, food service, pharmaceutical and manufacturing. Ms. Arsenault works with clients across Canada and the United States in French and English.
McCarthy Tétrault
Charlene Hiller
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Charles Bardou
Partner
Dentons
Charles Kazaz
Charles specializes in mining law and practices all aspects of environmental law. He is based in both Montréal and Toronto. Charles advises mining companies in day-to-day legal matters related to their operations and commercial transactions, including earn-in, joint venture, royalty, and off-take agreements, mine acquisitions and divestitures, mine reclamation and closure issues and mineral rights concerns, as well as in respect of indigenous matters. He has extensive expertise in environmental aspects of corporate, commercial and property transactions, project development, regulatory compliance, and liability issues. Charles advises on contaminated property, permitting, environmental impact assessments, investigations, enforcement under and defending prosecutions under environmental legislation, waste management issues, environmental audits, officer/director/parent company liability. Charles is also experienced in negotiating agreements with Indigenous groups.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Charles Keizer
A leading energy lawyer, Charles Keizer advises clients on some of the most sophisticated work in the sector, combining skilled advocacy and deep regulatory knowledge to help advance projects and unique and complex matters. Charles is co-head of Torys’ Infrastructure and Energy Practice and leads the Energy Regulatory Practice. He maintains an active practice with an emphasis on administrative law and project development in the energy sector. He frequently advises generators (renewable and conventional), transmitters, and electricity and natural gas distributors in relation to regulatory, project development and contractual matters. Charles regularly appears before the Ontario Energy Board on rates, licensing and leave to construct matters applications, some of which are the most complex and unique matters considered by that tribunal. As lead counsel on a number of generation and transmission projects, Charles has provided strategic advice related to federal and provincial regulatory regimes, and he has a strong understanding of project development—from the initial stages to connection and commercial operation.
Torys
Charles Morgan
National Co-leader of McCarthy Tétrault’s Cyber/Data Group. His practice takes a 360-degree approach to data, helping clients extract the tremendous value inherent in data, while at the same time managing the associated risks. He is a recognized thought-leader on the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence. Focus on cybersecurity, data protection, artificial intelligence, big data, tech sourcing, licensing, e-commerce, fintech and telecommunications. Represents broad range of clients, including financial institutions, communications, aeronautics and digital media companies in data management, outsourcing, systems integration and other complex commercial transactions. Regularly assists clients as breach coach (cyber readiness and response).
McCarthy Tétrault
Charles Newman
Charles Newman is a partner serving as Co-Chair of the Banking & Specialty Finance Group at Cassels. Charles’ practice focuses on all types of secured and unsecured lending transactions, including cross-border transactions, project/infrastructure financings, syndicated loan transactions, debtor-in-possession financings, asset-based and real estate-based lending matters. Charles also does extensive work in the subordinated and convertible debt areas and in treasury management. He is recognized as a leader in his field by such authorities as the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Best Lawyers in Canada, IFLR, and Chambers Canada which notes that clients commend Charles’ “attention to detail, accuracy and problem-solving skills.” Learn more.
Cassels
Charles Rich
Charles (Chuck) Rich is a partner at Cassels, serves as Chair of the firm’s Financial Services Group, and is a member of the firm’s top-ranked Cannabis Group. Chuck’s practice focuses on secured and unsecured loan transactions and debt restructurings. He offers expertise in corporate and commercial lending, including syndicated financings, acquisition financing, leveraged buyouts, asset-based lending, subordinate debt/first lien/second lien financings, cross-border transactions, receivables financing, special project financings (including trusts, partnership and limited partnerships), scientific research, and experimental development financing, as well as debt liability management transactions. Chuck acts for domestic banks, corporations, financial sponsors, and family offices, as well as many foreign financial institutions. In addition, he acts as Canadian Counsel to numerous foreign law firms. Chuck’s practice also includes security enforcement, workouts, and insolvency/debt restructurings for financial institution and corporate clients. Learn more.
Cassels
Charlotte McDonald
Partner, Trademark Agent
Gowling WLG
Cherie Brant
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Cheryl Satin
Cheryl's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private equity investments and commercial arrangements, with a particular focus on the financial services and life sciences industries. She has substantial experience in negotiating and advising in connection with acquisitions and divestitures of businesses and product lines in the banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer health sectors. She also routinely acts for private equity and strategic investors in connection with minority investments and joint ventures in each of these sectors, and assists businesses in connection with material licensing, supply, distribution arrangements.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Cheryl Woodin
Partner and Co-Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department
Bennett Jones LLP