Lawyers in Canada
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Chloe Snider
Partner
Dentons
Chris Burr
Chris is a seasoned corporate restructuring and insolvency lawyer, trusted by clients for his ability to navigate complex multi-party insolvency matters and high-stakes debt restructurings. He regularly advises secured creditors, court-appointed officers and debtor companies, offering strategic guidance on both domestic and cross-border matters, including distressed M&A, debt enforcement, and debtor-in-possession (DIP) financings. In addition to his insolvency practice, Chris has extensive experience in managing construction lien litigation and advises lenders, contractors, property owners and other industry participants in resolving construction disputes. Having served as general counsel at a venture capital company, Chris offers a unique perspective on the legal challenges faced by businesses, with firsthand insight into the client's viewpoint. His time as general counsel included structuring start-up acquisitions, bridge financing, and advising on regulatory, marketing and privacy matters.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Chris Christopher
Chris’ counsel to clients in the infrastructure, energy and oil and gas sectors is backed by deep experience and industry background, bringing knowledge and perspective to clients’ corporate and commercial priorities, strategies and objectives. Chris guides oil and gas and power companies through a wide range of their commercial projects and transactions. He regularly works with clients in their acquisitions and divestitures of energy assets, as well as the full spectrum of energy project development, from joint ventures, construction, operation and maintenance to logistics and transportation, processing and marketing arrangements as they relate to LNG, oil sands, shale gas and power projects. Chris’ industry experience includes a business background working with various oil and gas companies, giving him market insight and a commercial mindset.
Torys
Chris Harris
Chris is a corporate lawyer with a practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and complex commercial arrangements. He primarily advises strategic clients and private equity investors, with a particular emphasis on all aspects of the energy value chain, including upstream oil and gas, pipelines, midstream, downstream and marketing, power and renewables, and carbon capture, storage and utilization. A substantial portion of Chris's work involves cross-border transactions. He also has significant experience in other industries and markets including technology investment, agribusiness and industrial services.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Chris Hewat
Chris practises securities and business law, with focus on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and private equity transactions. He also advises on securities regulatory and corporate governance matters. He has particular expertise in advising issuers, investment dealers and investors in the technology sector. Chris has also been involved in the development of securities regulation in Canada, having advised the Ontario Securities Commission in connection with its rules reformulation project, and the Toronto Stock Exchange in its review of rules governing listed companies.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Chris Hunter
Chris is the Practice Group Leader of the Intellectual Property group. He represents clients in the acquisition, enforcement and exploitation of all forms of intellectual property. His practice focuses on providing strategic advice to clients concerning their intellectual property portfolios and providing litigation support for infringement and misappropriation actions. He devotes a significant part of his practice to negotiating the intellectual property aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic licensing. Chris is also a registered patent and trademark agent. He drafts and prosecutes patent applications for electrical, mechanical (including medical devices), financial services (fintech), software and information-technology-related inventions and, more recently, AI. Chris also provides strategic branding advice to both local and global clients.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Chris Nyberg
Chris’s practice focuses on complex commercial matters in regulated industries both inside and outside of insolvency. Chris’s practice primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions and regulatory strategies for companies in agribusiness, healthcare, cannabis and other regulated industries. He has broad experience with a range of complex acquisitions, commercial arrangements and regulatory issues. Chris’s practice also includes advising clients on all corporate aspects of Canadian insolvency proceedings and he has advised debtors, lenders, purchasers, directors and shareholders in a variety of distressed transactions and proceedings.
MLT Aikins LLP
Chris Roine
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Christina Doria
Christina Doria assists corporations, public entities, and states with litigation and arbitration, including enforcement of awards and judgments, and internal investigations. Christina co-chairs Baker McKenzie's North American International Arbitration Group. She is recognized by Who's Who Legal (WWL) in Canada since 2020, and by WWL Arbitration globally since 2020. She was also recognized by The Legal 500 and Euromoney Expert Guides as a rising star for dispute resolution, by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a Leading Lawyer, since 2019, and as a Leading Litigation Lawyer in the 2023 Lexpert Special Edition. With over 13 years' experience, Christina has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the courts of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba. She has also appeared before domestic and international arbitral tribunals and has acted on arbitrations under most commercial and investor state rules and has worked on bet-the-company internal investigations.
Baker McKenzie
Christina Kaminski
Associate
Gowling WLG
Christine Ing
Christine heads the firm’s National Technology Group and co-heads its Fintech Group. Christine’s practice focuses on commercial transactions involving technology, data and intellectual property. She is frequently sought in relation to digital transformation and collaborative innovation deals, involving novel technologies (including AI and blockchain). In the past several years, Christine has increasingly focused on data driven commercial arrangements that involve bilateral data sharing, data licensing, big data analytics and AI. She has had over two decades of experience in a wide variety of complex commercial arrangements having technology at their core, including outsourcing, systems and software acquisitions, systems and software development, licensing, various ASP and SAAS arrangements, complex services agreements and distribution/reseller agreements. Christine regularly acts for major Canadian financial institutions and other Fortune 500 companies.
McCarthy Tétrault
Christine Lonsdale
Christine is a partner in the Litigation Group in Toronto. A premier commercial litigator known for her practical approach, Christine’s practice focuses primarily on class actions, privacy defamation and administrative. Representing a broad range of clients, including financial institutions, media companies, and regulatory bodies, clients appreciate Christine’s responsiveness, ability to find creative legal solutions to real world problems, and commitment to providing optimal results to their complex issues in a timely and effective way. Working with client needs, she tailors her approach to suit the context in which their business operates, mitigating risk and advocating to protect their reputation and integrity. Christine has a strong track record of success in ensuring tight alignment between the litigation and media strategies. Christine can litigate a case to a successful conclusion or craft an early exit strategy. Christine is fully bilingual and litigates regularly in French and English. She has appeared as counsel at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in major cases in Ontario, British Columbia and Newfoundland.
McCarthy Tétrault
Christine Milliken
Christine's practice focuses primarily on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and project development within the oil and gas and renewable energy industries. She has been involved in a broad range of transactions for private and public entities, including domestic and cross border M&A transactions, share and asset purchase and sale transactions, joint ventures, pipeline and midstream facility development and commercial arrangements and corporate reorganizations. Christine has significant experience advising clients with general corporate and commercial matters and all aspects of conventional and unconventional oil and gas matters, including liquefied natural gas (including all project development agreements and LNG offtake arrangements). She also advises on pipeline and other midstream project matters, share and asset purchase and sale transactions and reorganizations. Christine also has an active technology practice, assisting start-up technology companies (in various stages) with various commercial transactions (including mergers, acquisition and divestitures), private equity and venture capital investments, licensing and general commercial matters. She has a strong working knowledge of French, Cantonese and Mandarin. Christine is co-head of the Firm's Corporate Commercial group in Calgary.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Christine Plante
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Christopher C. Van Barr
Partner, Patent Agent
Gowling WLG
Christopher Cochlin
Partner
Cassidy Levy Kent LLP
Christopher DiMatteo
Christopher's practice includes complex commercial litigation and class action defence, with a focus on cybersecurity. He also practices public law, with expertise in administrative, constitutional and regulatory law. Christopher's experience includes a wide range of business disputes, contract cases, media and defamation cases, insurance law, and procurement matters. In addition, he has experience in pension matters before both the Financial Services Tribunal and the courts. Christopher has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. Before joining Blakes, Christopher was a law clerk for the Honourable Justice (now Chief Justice) Richard Wagner of the Supreme Court of Canada and for judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Christopher Hubbard
Chris is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Litigation Group in Toronto. His general litigation practice focuses on complex commercial disputes and professional negligence. Chris is sought out by clients from diverse industries to assist with a variety of litigation and regulatory issues, including product liability claims, class proceedings, product recalls, and commercial contract disputes. His clients include leading food and consumer products companies, national and international retailers, automakers, mining companies, construction companies, and consulting firms. He has appeared as lead counsel for successful clients before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, and multiple provincial Superior Courts and Courts of Appeal.
McCarthy Tétrault
Christopher J. Lang
Associate Areas of Practice Tax Planning Objections Corporate Tax Planning Tax Litigation Personal Tax Planning Voluntary Disclosure Tax Representation & Litigation Farm Taxation Audit & CRA Proposals
Felesky Flynn LLP
Christopher J. Montes
Co-Managing Partner Areas of Practice Tax Planning International Tax Corporate Tax Planning Audits & CRA Proposals Mergers & Acquisitions Objections
Felesky Flynn LLP
Christopher Jones
Chris’ practice focuses on advising emerging and high-growth companies and their investors, including with respect to financing, mergers and acquisitions, governance and general corporate and securities law matters. His clients include companies ranging from early-stage ventures to publicly-traded multinationals, private equity and venture capital funds and research institutions. Many of Chris's clients are in the life sciences and technology industries, and he leads Blakes Ventures, Blakes’ national emerging company and venture capital practice group. Prior to joining Blakes, Chris spent five years practising law in the United States.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Christopher Kent
Partner
Cassidy Levy Kent LLP
Christopher Langdon
Christopher Langdon is a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto and London UK and is co-lead of our Projects Group. Christopher advises clients on a range of project development and finance transactions, representing sponsors, project companies, commercial banks and international financial institutions. He has extensive experience in banking, project finance, financial restructuring, joint ventures, metal streaming, off-takes and concessions. Most recently, he has been advising on major project financings and complex commercial arrangements for mining, energy and infrastructure projects in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Canada and the United States.
McCarthy Tétrault
Christopher McHardy
Partner in our Labour & Employment Group in Vancouver. Advises employers on a broad range of provincial and federal workplace issues relating to labour, employment, human rights, privacy and immigration law. Regularly advises US, UK, Australian, Chinese and other offshore clients in connection with establishing business operations in British Columbia. Also advises on and negotiates labour and employment issues in corporate mergers, acquisitions and outsourcing, including executive employment agreements. Regularly represents management in collective bargaining, negotiations, investigations, mediations, arbitrations, administrative hearings and in court. Appeared as counsel in matters before all levels of court in British Columbia, the BC Labour Relations Board, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the BC Human Rights Tribunal, the BC Employment Standards Tribunal, the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal and provincial and federal grievance arbitration panels. Publishes and presents extensively on labour, employment, human rights, privacy and immigration issues in the workplace.
McCarthy Tétrault