Practice covers a full range of transactions, including leasing, acquisitions, development and financing. Acts for both large and small developers, pension funds and financial institutions. Practice also includes insolvency and realisation work related to real property.
Partner in the firm’s Litigation Group and Lead of the firm’s national franchise practice. Focuses on complex commercial litigation and franchise-distribution law. Active commercial litigation practice before arbitration panels, all levels of court in Ontario, the B.C. Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Routinely advises domestic and international franchisors, manufacturers and master distributors in all areas of franchise-distribution law, including strategic and risk management issues, franchise agreements and national disclosure documents. Also advises numerous chartered banks on bills of exchange and other banking litigation.
Ana is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Toronto Financial Services group and co-leader of the firm’s Fintech group. Ana regularly advises banks, credit unions, payment service providers, non-bank lenders and other Fintech entities on regulatory requirements, including prudential, consumer protection and anti-money laundering requirements. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).
Andrew is co-head of the firm’s National Capital Markets Practice and is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Group in Toronto. Recognized as a leader in his field, Andrew’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law in general, including corporate finance (both domestic and cross-border), mergers and acquisitions, collective investment vehicles and registration and licensing matters. Andrew’s expertise in equity and debt capital markets combined with his practical, thorough, and responsive approach consistently make him the top choice for clients with sophisticated corporate and securities matters. Highly regarded by a variety of key sources, Andrew is involved in both public and private offerings for issuers, investors and underwriters with extensive experience in debt capital markets transactions (including high yield offerings). Clients count on Andrew’s deep understanding of the technical aspects of securities law to help guide them through complex legal matters efficiently and effectively.
Andrew is a partner in the Toronto office. His practice is principally focused on acting for investment managers and underwriters with respect to the establishment of investment products including retail structured products, investment funds, pooled funds, mutual funds and linked notes. Andrew is recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, PLC Cross Border Capital Markets Handbook, the Best Lawyers in Canada and the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.
Andrew is the Head of McCarthy Tétrault’s National White Collar and Investigations Group. He specializes in complex and cross-border investigations, regulatory and criminal defence, and professional discipline matters. His diverse experience includes practicing with Allen & Overy in New York City. In his investigations practice, Andrew addresses a wide range of exposures, including fraud, corruption, insider trading, money laundering, tax evasion and sanctions violations. He often appears before administrative tribunals, as well as appearing before the court of Ontario, including in the successful defence of the former CEO of Nortel on criminal fraud charges. He teaches at University of Toronto Law School, and publishes widely on matters relating to financial crime and investigations. He has been active in pro bono work throughout in his career, including acting for Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Partner in the Real Property and Planning Group in Montréal. Practice focuses on real estate acquisitions, real estate financings, property development, commercial leasing, and joint venture transactions. Regularly represents financial institutions and public and private companies in the multi-residential, retail and hotel industries, and for development work. Acting on major transactions for purchasers, lenders and developers of residential and mixed-use projects, including on projects involving vertical subdivisions and co-ownership.
Partner in the firm’s Litigation Group and Insurance Group in Vancouver. Practice focuses on insurance coverage issues as counsel solely for policyholders. Also has significant experience in a wide variety of construction litigation matters both for plaintiffs and defendants and in education law. Has argued cases at all levels of the courts of British Columbia and has been involved in numerous mediations and arbitrations with respect to coverage and construction issues.
The firm’s National Practice Leader and member of Senior Leadership Team. Practices exclusively in the areas of bankruptcy and restructuring. Extensive experience in distressed M&A, high-yield debt-trading and complex restructurings. Recent engagements include counsel to Morneau Shepell as Canadian pension plan administrator in Nortel’s global restructuring proceedings and counsel to Stelco in its restructuring proceedings.
Senior counsel in the Technology Law Group. Former leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property group. One of Canada’s foremost authorities in information technology, Internet, copyright and privacy law. Acts in connection with complex IT/AI//IP transactions and defense procurements and in IT/IP litigation. Has argued numerous precedent-setting cases at all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Adjunct professor of IP law at Osgoode. Author’s blog at www.barrysookman.com
Counsel in Financial Services Group. Focus on financial institutions regulation, debt financings and credit restructurings. Acts for various foreign and domestic financial institutions with respect to a range of financial services regulatory applications and advice. Leading expertise in financial institution regulatory capital offerings and public sector pension plan debt funding, having acted recently as counsel on capital offerings by Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank, National Bank, Canadian Western Bank, Sunlife, Manulife, Intact, Empire Life, Industrial Alliance, OMERS, CPPIB and Ontario Pension Board, among others. Specific illustrative retainers: acted for syndicate of dealers on a new capital offering structure by Royal Bank of $1.75 Billion Limited Recourse Capital Notes; for OMERS and OMERS Finance Trust on more than $6 Billion of debt financings in the global and domestic capital and bank markets; for lenders on $2 Billion emergency liquidity facility to Home Capital; for Bruce Power on its multibillion dollar debt program in the bond and bank markets; for Big 5 Canadian banks in the $32 billion ABCP restructuring. Acting for ten years for industry group consisting of major Canadian and foreign banks as well as institutional investors on Canadian derivatives regulatory reform.
Brian is a Partner and co-leader of the firm’s Transportation and Logistics group. His practice focuses on M&A, commercial agreements, regulatory compliance, and licensing in the areas of road and rail transportation, warehousing and supply chain. Brian has provided advice in respect of numerous purchase and sale agreements, reorganizations, and investments, and provides licensing advice in respect of cross-border transportation in the rail and road modes. He offers contractual solutions and advice on liability and risk exposure to a variety of transportation clients. Brian also has extensive experience with licensing and permitting requirements for commercial motor vehicles and for motor vehicle dealers throughout Canada, including obtaining licences from regulators in the context of cross-border acquisitions and expansions.
Head of the firms oil and gas practice group. Practice encompasses a variety of corporate/commercial matters, with a specialization in M&A and divestitures in the oil and gas, electricity and renewable power industries. Advises major oil and gas corporations in the upstream, midstream and service sectors, as well as electricity developers, generators and transmission companies in respect of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and partnerships, as well as the operation, development and construction of energy projects. He currently acts as corporate secretary for several of his clients and has developed corporate finance experience through his work with both public and private companies in equity and loan financing.
Partner with extensive experience advising industry proponents and governments on Aboriginal law matters across Canada, including Aboriginal rights and title, the duty to consult, the negotiation and implementation of agreements with Indigenous groups, and litigation and dispute resolution. Previously served as a Ministerial Special Representative for the federal government on consultation and accommodation and has acted as counsel in matters relating to Aboriginal rights and title, the duty to consult, and revenue sharing arrangement disputes.
Recent experience acting as lead counsel includes: friendly and hostile mergers and acquisitions involving public and private companies (both domestic and cross-border); debt restructurings; going-private transactions; proxy contests for control; initial public offerings; other public and private equity financings; all aspects of private equity M&A; royalty trust acquisitions and restructurings; and acting as general counsel and strategic advisor to management teams and their Boards.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Practice focuses on environmental, energy, mining, regulatory matters and pre-penal litigation advisory work. She advises clients from diversified sectors in the context of project development, permitting process, sales/purchases of business or properties, regulatory changes and advocacy initiatives. She also provides, trainings on liability and due diligence measures, advises on contaminated land management, supports clients with governmental investigation and inspections and coordinate risk monitoring and audit processes. She has developed a deep understanding of climate change policies and regularly helps clients navigate the greenhouse gas emission cap-and-trade systems. Prior to joining the firm, she was a legal and political advisor on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Partner, Real Property & Planning Group in Vancouver. Practice focused on all aspects of commercial real estate, with a particular emphasis on real estate financing. Regularly advises significant institutional and private landlords, developers, investors and lenders on a variety of residential, commercial, mixed-use and comprehensive projects.
Partner and leader of our Real Property and Planning Group in Vancouver. He advises clients in a number of different industries on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, structuring, leasing and financing.
Past Chair of the firm’s National Class Actions Team and partner in the litigation group in Toronto. Civil litigation practice focused on class actions (particularly securities, data breach, pensions) and corporate-commercial litigation. Acted for leading Canadian and international companies in complex and challenging matters in the trial and appellate Courts in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Quebec, and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Was co-counsel for Defendants in the first two statutory secondary market securities class action leave motions in Canada.
Partner in Intellectual Property group and national co-lead of Cyber/Data group. Advises on copyright, trademark and confidential information protection, primarily through litigation, including in technology, sports and entertainment, fashion, consumer products, retail, financial and health services fields. Numerous cases involving trade dress. Information law practice extends to privacy and cybersecurity litigation (including class actions), data breach response, and Internet law. Counsel in intellectual property matters before Supreme Court of Canada (7 appearances), US Supreme Court of the United States (led drafting of amicus brief on international copyright law), Federal Court of Appeal, Federal Court, numerous provincial appellate and superior courts, Copyright Board, CRTC, and the Trademarks Opposition Board. Testified as expert on Copyright Board before Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce; significant experience on copyright, trademark and privacy reform.
Partner in the firm’s Toronto office. Practice focuses on private equity structuring, pension fund structuring, limited partnerships, joint ventures, and commercial real estate, including acquisitions, sale and leaseback transactions, financings, and property development. A significant portion of his practice is devoted to serving the pension fund industry and private equity real estate sector. Has been engaged by a range of private equity funds, pension funds, and pension fund managers in private equity fund structures, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and asset management advice. In the last 15 years, has acted for real estate fund promoters in structuring, marketing, and closing multiple open and closed-ended funds across varying asset classes, which have attracted investment from investors of all sizes and types, and then in deploying funds raised in real estate projects.
Darryl’s litigation practice is focused on professional liability and commercial litigation. He has appeared at all levels of court in Ontario and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Darryl has conducted many trials, both jury and non-jury, over his litigation career. His trials have been in relation to all areas of law, including contracts, advertising, competition, insurance, tax, environmental, intellectual property, technology, defamation, employment and professional negligence. In the professional negligence context, Darryl is known for his work as lead counsel for physicians in a wide variety of negligence and discipline cases. Darryl teaches Trial Advocacy and Medical Negligence at Queen’s Law School.
Partner leading the firm’s Transportation and Logistics Group and a member of the Business Law Group. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience acquired over the past 30 years, he helps clients with complex regulatory transportation issues and finding adapted business solutions. He is known for his expertise in interprovincial and international transportation, safety standards regulation and carriers’ liability. Various leading Canadian, US and European companies in the rail, trucking and bus industries as well as the mining sector consult him for his in-depth experience and expertise. He is regularly involved in complex National and International transactions involving rail and road transportation businesses. He also appears before administrative tribunals, agencies and the courts in regulatory, safety compliance and liability matters.
David A.N. Lever is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Toronto. In addition, he is the Industry Group Leader of the firm’s Infrastructure Group and Co-Head of the firm’s Projects practice. Known for his expertise in M&A and project finance and development, David has been actively involved in the power industry for over three decades. He has acted for developers, investors and lenders in connection with wind, hydro, nuclear and co-generation power projects in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the United States. David has provided counsel in the areas of development, financing, contract negotiation, permitting and regulatory matters and ownership structures. He has extensive experience in financings for public and private corporations and income funds in both public and private markets. David also has significant experience in the purchase and sale of businesses in the energy industry.
David’s practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions and public company advice. David has advised many Canadian and international businesses on acquisition, divestiture and reorganisation transactions. David regularly advises public companies and their boards of directors on major transactions and governance matters. He has significant experience in capital markets matters, having acted for issuers and investment dealers in a wide variety of cross-border and domestic public offerings and private placements. David has experience across a broad range of industries, including financial services, natural resources, technology, manufacturing, consumer products and telecommunications.
Dean focuses on securitization, structured finance, securities and fintech transactions, including single-seller, multi-seller and cross border securitization transactions.Dean has significant experience acting as lead counsel for issuers, sellers, purchasers, lenders, borrowers, underwriters and trustees in various public and private securitization, structured finance, securities and fintech transactions, with his securitization and structured finance transactions involving a variety of asset classes, including credit card receivables, residential and commercial mortgages, home equity lines of credit, auto loans and leases, and consumer finance receivables.Dean also has extensive experience acting as lead counsel for issuers and underwriters in connection with prospectus offerings, private placements, medium term notes programs, commercial paper programs, covered bonds programs and continuous disclosure matters. He has spoken at a number of conferences on various securitization, structured finance and fintech topics.
Debbie acts for clients in domestic and multinational mergers and acquisitions with respect to competition/antitrust law and foreign investment review matters. She also regularly provides competition law compliance advice in respect of criminal cartel matters and reviewable practices, including joint ventures, resale pricing, advertising and distribution issues. Widely recognized in Canada and abroad for her experience working on complex domestic and multijurisdictional transactions, Debbie’s practice is marked by her pragmatic and solutions oriented approach, working with clients to achieve their objectives. Her deep knowledge of the Canadian competition/antitrust and foreign investment regimes is complemented by her understanding of a variety of industries, making her a valued business advisor.
Debbie acts for clients in domestic and multinational mergers and acquisitions with respect to competition/antitrust law and foreign investment review matters. She also regularly provides competition law compliance advice in respect of criminal cartel matters and reviewable practices, including joint ventures, resale pricing, advertising and distribution issues. Widely recognized in Canada and abroad for her experience working on complex domestic and multijurisdictional transactions, Debbie’s practice is marked by her pragmatic and solutions oriented approach, working with clients to achieve their objectives. Her deep knowledge of the Canadian competition/antitrust and foreign investment regimes is complemented by her understanding of a variety of industries, making her a valued business advisor.
Deron is co-Chair of McCarthy Tétrault’s seven-lawyer national Pensions, Benefits & Executive Compensation practice. Deron provides strategic advice to employers with respect to the legal and regulatory aspects of pension plans, profit sharing plans, registered retirement savings plans, welfare benefits plans, retirement compensation arrangements and other areas of executive compensation and their related investment arrangements. He has broad and deep experience with respect to the treatment of plans on purchase or sale of a business and corporate reorganizations (including CCAA) and advises as to entitlement to use of surplus assets, and transactions involving numerous publicly traded entities with pension plans involving employees in numerous Canadian jurisdictions. He advises both private and public sector clients that included universities, governmental agencies, multinational corporations and jointly-trusteed and multi-employer pension plans.
Competition law and litigation practice includes defending criminal prosecutions, Competition Tribunal proceedings and private actions, including class actions. Has frequently represented the Commissioner of Competition. Significant cartel and merger practice, both domestic and international. Extensive experience litigating Competition Tribunal cases. Adjunct Professor at Western University Law School.
Partner in firm’s Labour & Employment group in Vancouver. Appeared as counsel in matters before all levels of court in British Columbia, the British Columbia Labour Relations Board, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and grievance arbitration panels. Publishes and presents extensively on labour, employment and human rights legal issues.
Practices taxation law with an emphasis on Canadian and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, financial products and investment funds. Also advises on tax aspects of business operations, including transfer pricing. Represents clients before the Canada Revenue Agency, the Ministry of Finance and the Department of Finance.
Partner based in Montreal with a general litigation practice in professional liability, class actions related to pharmaceutical products and other consumer products and insurance for policyholders. She is the lead for the firm’s Medical Liability Group, supporting both the Quebec City and Montreal offices. She frequently acts as lead counsel for doctors in a wide variety of negligence and discipline cases. She has experience at trial and appellate level and before administrative tribunals.
Frank’s practice focuses on the defence of pharmaceutical product liability class actions, medical malpractice claims and a range of commercial litigation cases. Frank is a leading trial lawyer in medical malpractice litigation, having successfully defended over 30 cases through trial, both jury and non-jury. Frank has many high-profile representative works, including acting as National lead counsel for a number of pharmaceutical innovator companies.Frank and his team have taken creative approaches to the defence of class actions and have defeated class certification motions on behalf of AstraZeneca, in Martin v. AstraZeneca (involving the atypical anti-psychotic medication Seroquel), and on behalf of Lundbeck in Price v. Lundbeck (involving the anti-depressant Celexa)(currently under appeal). Frank has been involved in many leading medical malpractice decisions and specializes in birth injury litigation. Frank is a frequent presenter at conferences on medical legal issues.
Counsel in the firm’s Toronto office with a practice focused on tax implications of mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and corporate finance, as well as other general taxation matters.
Geoff is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Group in the firm’s Toronto office. As a leading litigator on corporate and commercial matters, Geoff represents a broad spectrum of organizations in contract disputes; shareholder disputes; banking disputes; tax disputes; administrative law litigation; Aboriginal litigation; and insolvency and bankruptcy cases. Highly effective and equally at ease as trial and appellate counsel, he consistently provides high-quality, strategic advice to clients and successfully resolves precedent-setting cases before all levels of Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and in domestic and international arbitrations.
Senior partner in the firm’s Technology Law Group in Toronto. Generates significant value add for clients across a range of transactions involving IT and related technologies. A trusted advisor to C-Suite decision-makers, as well as entrepreneurs, funders and investors. Represents public and private Canadian, US and international technology companies - brings significant value to them in tech company M&A/financing deals (particularly cross border). Very experienced at crafting creative solutions for the different challenges confronting public companies, mid-market private companies, and even select early stage ventures. Deep experience for private and public sector clients leading sophisticated tech commercial/outsourcing/procurement transactions; particularly adept at structuring and running “dual-track” competitive procurements – he helps parties structure and sign win-win deals in relatively short periods of time. Wide and deep experience with all forms of tech procurements, including BPO, infrastructure, cloud, on premise, and various versions of SaaS arrangements. Proficient and efficient at solving difficult e-commerce legal challenges, including those involving privacy law and data breach, incident management and litigation. Currently particularly active in the following sectors: artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, cyber security, healthcare informatics, fintech, legal tech, facial recognition, smart cities, gaming technologies, cryptography, autonomous and connected vehicles, property tech.
Prior to joining McCarthy Tétrault, George was General Counsel of the Ontario Energy Board. Leader in energy sector, served on the OEB’s Innovation Advisory Committee, and as Chair of the IESO Market Forum. The Ontario Energy Association and Vice Chair of Vice-Chair of Association of Power Producers, Ontario. Led a number of industry initiatives, including Task Forces on Distribution Rate Regulation, Infrastructure Renewal, Distributed Generation, and Transmission Connection for Renewable Generation. George has also advised on energy market reforms in Kenya, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia.
McCarthy Tétrault's Regional Managing Partner (Ontario), a Senior Partner in the firm's Real Property, Projects and Infrastructure Group and a former member of the firm’s Board of Partners, a trusted legal and strategic advisor with extensive experience in project development, public-private partnerships (PPP), public procurement and real estate including acquisition, disposition, leasing and construction matters. Significant landmark infrastructure and development projects across Canada include numerous PPP and other projects involving hospitals, power, transportation, universities, hotels, forensic facilities, police facilities, condominium, commercial, mixed use and professional sport facilities that strengthen our cities and communities. Godyne is consistently recognized for her experience in leading legal directories in Canada and beyond. Awarded the Women’s Infrastructure Network’s National 2021 WIN Award as Outstanding Leader for significant and meaningful contributions to infrastructure in Canada and beyond. Godyne is recognized as a Leadership Champion by WLI and one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by WXN.
Practises in the area of public procurement, infrastructure and project development, particularly with a variety of public-private partnership arrangements and concessions covering hospitals, courthouses, LRT, entertainment facilities, sports arenas, defence, transportation, rail, and airports. Clients include hospitals, universities, municipalities, government agencies, Crown corporations, professional sport team owners, equity investors, consortia, developers, lenders, Infrastructure Ontario, the procurement agency of the Province of Ontario for large public infrastructure projects, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Metrolinx, the Provincial rapid transit authority, the Province and Provincial Ministries.
Gordon Nettleton is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Oil & Gas Group and co-head of the National Environmental, Regulatory & Aboriginal Group. He specializes in energy regulatory, Aboriginal, environmental, and business law matters, and has significant experience in the regulation of oil & gas, including liquefied natural gas, pipelines and projects, and electricity industries. Gordon’s clients have included shippers on major pipelines and applicant pipeline companies seeking facilities and tolling approvals. He also has acted for Canada’s largest transmission and distribution utilities in respect of major rates revenue applications and facility expansion approvals. Gordon regularly appears before the Commission of the Canadian Energy Regulator (formerly the National Energy Board) and provincial regulatory tribunals including the Alberta Energy Regulator, the Alberta Utilities Commission, the Ontario Energy Board, the British Columbia Utilities Commission, and the New Brunswick Energy Utilities Board.
Focuses on lending and secured transactions, with particular emphasis on the power, financial services, financial market infrastructure, private equity, and communications industries. Regularly acts for banks, non-bank lenders and borrowers on domestic, cross-border and international debt transactions. Recent transactions include acting for lenders to hydro-electric, wind and solar generation facilities, both at the operating level, the holding company level, and the super holding company level, acting for central clearing parties on liquidity facilities of various types, including by way of a syndicated repurchase and reverse repurchase transactions, acting for pension fund related commercial paper issuers and a financial institution on their backstop liquidity facilities, acting for lenders providing capital call facilities, subscription facilities, net asset value facilities and hybrid facilities to domestic and international private equity funds, acting for lenders on single lender and syndicated margin loans secured by significant blocks of public company securities, including in the context of a take-over bid, financing acquisitions of hydro-electric generation projects, financing a government payment stream relating to the cessation of coal powered generation, and, acting for lenders and borrowers on the financing of infrastructure projects in Canada and the United States.
Practice focuses on broadcast and telecom regulation and Copyright Board work. Broad understanding of the communications industry, related corporate documentation and the framework for broadcast and telecom regulation and financing.
Provides strategic legal advice with respect to retirement, health & welfare and other compensation plans. Recent focuses are on investments, DB plan freezes and innovative plan designs, governance and changes to retiree benefits. Advises on the treatment of benefit plans in M&A transactions, lending transactions and insolvencies; advises on private and public sector pension plans. Experience in litigating matters before pension regulatory authorities and provides pension expertise to McCarthy litigation team in pension class proceedings. Represented employer in connection with nation’s first Employee Life and Health Trust. Frequent speaker and writer on benefits topics, including Canadian contributor to first UNEP FI paper on ESG for Institutional Investors.
Practice focuses on commercial insolvency, restructuring, bankruptcy and related litigation. Experience in numerous complex Canadian corporate restructurings representing a wide variety of stakeholder groups, including debtors, secured creditors, court officers and landlords. Experience includes, the restructuring of 33 Yorkville, Halo, Clover, Rothmans, Benson and Hedges, U. S. Steel Canada, Bondfield Construction – related P3 projects, Arctic Glacier, Cash Store, Skyservice and Asset Backed Commercial Paper as well as the cross-border restructurings of Takata, SquareTwo and Elephant and Castle.
Partner based in Montréal, Mr. Rousse advises management in all matters with respect to human resources and executive compensation. In the event of litigation, he acts before arbitration boards, administrative tribunals and the civil courts in matters related to grievance arbitration, employment contracts, wrongful dismissals and human rights complaints. Mr. Rousse also appears before tribunals in matters concerning occupational health and safety, restrictive covenants and privacy law. Furthermore, he has acquired considerable experience in collective bargaining, as well as in labour and employment matters related to restructurings and mergers and acquisitions. He represents a wide number of private and public sector employers both unionized and non-unionized, including companies and organizations in the manufacturing, transportation, mining, financial, hospitality and service sectors. Mr. Rousse also assists physicians in matters of disciplinary and administrative law.
Practises exclusively in bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring matters. Extensive experience advising debtors, creditors and court officers in work-out, restructuring, receivership and bankruptcy proceedings in both Canadian and international contexts. Recent matters include lead bankruptcy counsel to Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc. in its restructuring proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, to the syndicate of senior secured lenders in the cross-border restructuring proceedings of a natural gas and electricity retailer, and to CannTrust Holdings Inc. in its restructuring proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. Other recent matters include Canadian restructuring counsel to a car rental company in its global restructuring proceedings implemented under chapter 11 the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, and to U.S. Steel Canada Inc. in its restructuring proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Senior partner in the Montréal office. Practice focuses on real estate (acquisitions, dispositions, development, joint ventures, financing, mortgage purchases, syndications, participations and leasing). He is also the firm’s Real Property and Planning Group lead for the Québec region.
Practice focuses on commercial real estate including acquisitions and dispositions of all asset classes; commercial leasing including, new project first occupancies, ground lease and sale lease back transactions; borrower and lender side financing transactions, including securitization/ bond financings; real estate development projects including condominium and subdivision development. Extensive experience in the structure and implementation of real estate joint ventures, co-ownerships and other multi-ownership structures. Represents pension funds, REITs, developers, government agencies, financial institutions, public and private real estate managers, and life insurance companies.
Jason is the Chair of McCarthy Tétrault’s Competition/Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. He has over 25 years of experience advising on all aspects of competition law, including mergers, joint ventures and alliances, and both civil and criminal investigations. Significant recent mandates include: Parkland/Husky, Parkland/Pétroles Crevier, Discovery/WarnerMedia, Hitachi Rail/Thales Ground Transportation Systems, NCR/Cardtronics, AstraZeneca/Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Aon/Willis Towers Watson AbbVie/Allergan, Harris Corporation/L3 Technologies, and Walt Disney/21st Century Fox. Jason also advises on foreign investment/national security reviews under the Investment Canada Act, including the following significant transactions: Cineworld/Cineplex, Zijin Mining/Continental Gold, CCCI/Aecon and CNOOC/Nexen. Jason is regularly relied upon to provide risk assessments, internal audits and navigate sensitive matters through the relevant Canadian governmental authorities. Jason previously worked for three years at a leading international law firm in Brussels.
Partner in and Practice Lead of the firm’s Litigation Group in Vancouver. Chair of the firm’s National Class Actions Group. Experienced commercial litigator and has appeared at all levels of court in British Columbia, in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario, in the Federal Court, and in arbitral hearings. Has expertise in complex commercial litigation involving a variety of types of claims and in a broad range of industries, and particular expertise in defending class actions. Has significant trial experience, including trial of common issues. Frequently represents financial institution clients on a variety of matters including in relation to fraud, de-marketing, contract terms and mortgage issues. Frequently represents clients in consumer protection, product liability and privacy claims.
Jody is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Business Law Group in Vancouver. Her practice focuses on infrastructure, projects and general corporate and commercial law. Jody has significant experience in infrastructure projects in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean, and provides advice throughout the full life cycle of a project, including in connection with project procurement, structuring, bidding, transactional matters and ongoing governance, management and operational issues. Recent transactions include advising the lead developer of the team selected by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for the John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 6 and 7 Redevelopment Project, advising a member of the successful proponent for the redevelopment of the William H. Grey III 30th Street Rail Station (Philadelphia), advising a Canadian international airport on financing and operational matters, advising a short-listed proposer on a bid for the operation of the Grantley Adams International Airport (Barbados), advising the developer of the L.F. Wade International Airport Redevelopment Project (Bermuda) on construction, financing and ongoing operational issues and advising an equity member and operator on its successful bid and subsequent management of the LaGuardia Airport Central Terminal B Redevelopment Project.
Commercial real estate practice covers all aspects of real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, large and mid-scale secured construction and term financing, securitizations, construction contracts, asset management and development agreements, joint ventures, operating contracts, leasing and licensing. Recent transactions include acting for lenders in respect of large-scale bond and other forms of financings relating to office, retail and industrial complexes, condominium and hotel developments, entertainment and gaming facilities, timberland operations and multi-asset pool senior and mezzanine lending.
Acts for a wide range of clients on investigations, enforcement, disputes and compliance in respect of anti-corruption law and policy, business integrity laws, economic sanctions, export and technology transfer controls, defence trade controls, import controls, national security measures, customs and tariffs, anti-dumping, countervail and safeguard actions, and government procurement, including on the application of debarment regimes. Assists manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and retailers in the design and implementation of supply chain strategies to maximize efficiencies while ensuring full compliance with laws governing the cross-border movement of goods, services and technology. Also advises on rights, obligations and remedies under international trade and investment agreements, including the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (NAFTA’s replacement), the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, bilateral investment treaties, and the agreements of the World Trade Organization (including TRIPS and GATS).
Jonathan See is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Group in Toronto and Co-Head of the national M&A Group and Private Equity Group. Recognized for his client-centric approach, Jonathan is one of Canada’s most well-known M&A lawyers acting for sponsors, private equity, alternative investment funds, strategics, and investment banks on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions across a wide range of industries. Jonathan is also recognized by Legal 500 and IFLR as a leading lawyer in Corporate M&A, and by a number of noteworthy publications in the areas of infrastructure & energy, private equity, corporate/commercial, and investment funds and banking.
Joe is a partner in the McCarthy Tétrault Financial Services Group. His practice is focused on structuring and completing domestic and international financing transactions, frequently advising both lenders and borrowers as they navigate matters involving complex financing structures. Acting as a trusted advisor, Joe leverages his business acumen and legal expertise to achieve the best possible outcomes for clients. With over 30 years of experience in the practice of law, Joe has detailed industry knowledge and established relationships in the oil & gas, energy services, and power sectors. Through first-rate technical knowledge, strategic advice and understanding of clients’ business, he guides clients through even the most challenging situations.
Litigation partner based in Montréal. Practice focuses on class actions, product liability, tort, consumer protection, securities, and white collar crime. Highly experienced litigator with over 30 years of experience, and has appeared before all levels of Courts of Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada, Quebec Court of Appeal, and the superior court. Has appeared before various regulatory bodies, arbitrators, and mediators. Recognized as a skilled negotiator with proven affinity for strategy and innovation.
Junior is a Partner and co-chair of McCarthy Tétrault’s International Arbitration Group. Junior advises domestic and international clients across a broad range of industries, including mining, banking and telecommunications in complex commercial disputes. Junior provides strategic advice and has argued numerous cases before tribunals seated in a variety of venues. Junior has also acted as trial and appellate counsel in numerous civil matters, appearing before all levels of court in Ontario.
Partner in the Financial Services Group in the Toronto office, with a practice focused on banking and secured-lending transactions. Acts for Canadian banks, US banks, as well as other Canadian, US and international financial institutions and non-bank lenders in connection with structuring and negotiating all types of debt financings, including acquisition financings, asset-based loans, and other corporate and commercial loans.
Partner in firm’s Calgary Litigation Group. Practice focuses on corporate commercial, class action and public law litigation. Represents clients from a wide range of industries such as oil and gas, wind farm development, commercial real estate, retail and agrosciences in disputes concerning commercial contracts, class actions, departing fiduciary obligations, product liability and a variety of other matters concerning complex commercial transactions. Appeared before arbitral tribunals, all levels of court in Alberta and the Federal Court including on complex interlocutory motions, judicial reviews, trials and appeals.
Keith Rose draws on a practical background in the IT and telecommunications businesses, with more than a decade of prior experience as a software developer and project manager, as well as a deep interest in the interfaces between law and technology in the real world, to identify and resolve legal problems. Keith advises clients on a range of technology and communications law issues including telecommunications and spectrum regulatory compliance and policy issues for wireline and wireless communications, wireless equipment certification, privacy and anti-spam compliance, intellectual property, e-commerce, and general commercial matters. Keith is frequently called upon to help clients address novel regulatory issues on the leading edges of technological change.
Counsel in the firm’s Vancouver office. Emphasis on complex commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, financings, subordinated debt transactions, workouts and strategic advice. Extensive work with major public/private real estate developers, both local and offshore, and real estate investors including pension funds and REITs seeking commercial income properties. Expertise in commercial investment property (including hotels) and in representing developers of large residential and mixed-use projects and private equity lenders providing subordinated debt for development projects. Extensive experience preparing and negotiating documentation for projects structured as partnerships or joint ventures, and ancillary management and other service agreements required for such projects.
Lara is McCarthy Tetrault’s Industry Strategy Leader, responsible for leading the firm and its people to truly understand and align with our clients and their industries. As Leader of our Retail and Consumer Markets Group, Lara is a trusted advisor to consumer-facing businesses looking to establish or grow in the Canadian market. She advises global companies entering Canada (through M&A, e-commerce, bricks and mortar or a combination) on their market entry strategies and related legal issues. She regularly advises retail industry clients on operational issues, new projects and their response to COVID-19, including navigating reopening and recovery across jurisdictions. Lara excels at negotiating M&A transactions, reorganizations and commercial matters for retailers (including e-commerce and digital) and consumer facing businesses. She provides well-informed guidance on multifaceted strategic and operational issues, including domestic and global expansion, COVID-19 response, reopening and recovery.
Focus on projects, project finance and infrastructure. Regularly advises project proponents on all aspects of the development of projects across Canada and internationally. Advises borrowers, banks, life insurance companies and pension funds regarding projects/project lending, and investment dealers regarding private placements of debt products relating to projects.
Leader of the firm’s National Financial Services Group. Partner in the firm’s Toronto office with practice focusing on financial institutions, and capital market and structured finance transactions, including new issuer transactions, global covered bond programs (lead issuer counsel on a majority of the Canadian market covered bond programmes), cross-border transactions, asset-backed programs and novel capital market transactions. Acted as lead counsel on numerous public securitization transactions and global covered bond programs, both for issuers and underwriters. Extensive experience in innovative transactions and single-seller and multi-seller securitisation transactions for various asset classes, including credit card receivables, trade receivables, consumer loans, commercial mortgage and residential mortgage loan securitizations (CMBS and RMBS).
Co-leader of the firm’s national Energy and Infrastructure law groups, supervises the natural resources group in Québec and is responsible for the activities of the firm in relation to development of Northern Québec. Practice focuses on development and financing of major projects and other financing operations and privatizations. Advises companies, lending institutions and others. He acts as strategic counsel for numerous companies in connection with the development of Northern Québec and has considerable experience in commercial negotiation and public affairs.
Mark leads the firm’s Real Property & Planning Group in Calgary. His practice primarily focuses on commercial real estate transactions in all asset classes. He regularly acts for major Canadian developers, lenders, and borrowers as they navigate complex commercial acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and financial lending issues. Mark provides practical and actionable counsel during all aspects of land assembly, financing and leasing. He also acts for lenders and borrowers during the procurement of construction and acquisition loans, and guides his clients through issues related to corporate and ownership matters, including partnership, joint venture and co-ownership agreements. Mark has specialized experience working on deals surrounding senior assisted living spaces, and has represented owners and operators of both private and government-funded facilities. Clients turn to Mark for deals involving various governmental departments as well as intricate privacy, tax and employment issues.
Partner in the International Trade and Investment Law group, specializes in international trade and customs law, product marketing and advertising regulatory law, procurement law, and international arbitration. International trade practice includes customs law, anti-dumping and countervail issues, import and export controls, trade facilitation and advising, foreign investment. Has participated in all stages of trade remedy disputes before the Canada Border Services Agency and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, including inquiries, expiry reviews, as well as China-specific and global safeguards. Acted for investors in numerous investor-state arbitrations. Regulatory law practice involves advising on international and domestic requirements regarding product and supply chain regulation, and key strategies for accessing and compliance and scoping opportunities in new markets. Expertise in specially regulated products. Ranked in Chambers, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Expert Guides, Who’s Who Legal, Best Lawyers in Canada and Lexpert.
Partner in the Montréal office and a member of the firm’s Board of Partners. Known for his business acumen and broad experience as a corporate commercial litigator, Mason’s practice focuses primarily on corporate disputes, governance, securities, internal investigations, crisis management, insolvency, and restructuring. Recognized for his ability to successfully manage litigation and investigations matters with a great deal at stake, Mason leverages his considerable corporate and financial industry knowledge to find practical solutions to complex disputes. Working with a range of clients including financial institutions, public and privately held corporations, members of board of directors and trustees, he takes a strategic approach to securities and banking class actions, financial product liabilities cases, financial frauds, corporate governance issues, plans of arrangement, liquidation, oppression remedies, complex contract disputes, and directors’ liabilities. Clients appreciate Mason’s ability to gain insight into the dispute and bring the right angles and arguments before the court to achieve swift and successful resolutions. He has appeared before all Québec judicial courts, before the Supreme Court of Canada, and in numerous commercial arbitration proceedings.
Practices corporate and securities litigation, energy litigation, commercial litigation, real property litigation, commercial and banking litigation, product liability litigation, insurance litigation, administrative law litigation, and commercial arbitration, and class action defense. Extensive experience in disputes involving corporate and securities issues, including take-overs, proxy contests, reorganizations, shareholder disputes, director and officer duties, oppression remedies, accounting practices, share valuations and public securities matters. Substantial experience in disputes concerning oil, gas and NGLs, and electrical and wind power issues. Considerable experience with domestic and international industry experts in accounting, economics, engineering, oilfields, power and regulatory.
Michael is a partner in the Technology Law Group and Cyber/Data Groups with deep experience in providing practical legal solutions across a broad range of technology-related transactions, including in relation to privacy, technology outsourcing, cloud services, licensing, joint development arrangements, e-commerce, data sharing, distribution agreements and competitive/public technology procurements. Michael brings specific knowledge and experience in addressing the unique concerns posed by emerging technologies and trends, including artificial intelligence and big data. He regularly advises companies in relation to complex arrangements involving novel and innovative uses of data and technology and speaks on topics of strategic importance in the industry, including at the 2022 Canadian Open Banking Forum regarding data ownership and at the 2022 IEEE GET Blockchain Forum regarding privacy considerations.
Highly versatile litigator. Handles both complex commercial disputes and constitutional and other public law litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. Practices nationally in the product liability and class action fields. Has acted in more than 25 Supreme Court of Canada appeals on a wide variety of subjects, including as amicus curiae appointed by the Chief Justice of Canada to assist the court. Lead counsel for the successful appellants in the leading Canadian cases on contractual interpretation (Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp.) and discretionary trusts (S.A. v. Metro Vancouver Housing Corp.). Member of Supreme Court Advocacy Institute’s National Advisory Committee and past Executive Director. Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. Appointed King’s Counsel in 2018. Recognized by Canadian Lawyer magazine as one of Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential in 2019. Included by Benchmark Litigation on its Top 50 Trial Lawyers in Canada list.
Practices banking and commercial law. Broad experience in domestic and cross-border loan syndications, secured transactions, receivables financing, international banking transactions, and regulation of financial institutions (including on consumer protection matters).
Partner in Litigation Group, Retail sector lead of National Retail & Consumer Markets Group, member of Mining Group. Specializes in complex business disputes, including contractual claims and economic torts, securities litigation/class actions, shareholder remedies, corporate governance issues, internal investigations, internet and e-commerce issues and consumer protection. Has appeared in BC and Ontario superior and appeal courts and the Supreme Court of Canada, and as arbitration counsel.Ranked in Benchmark Canada, Legal 500, The Best Lawyers in Canada, and Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. Recognized as a "Leading Lawyer under 40" Lexpert (2017), "Best Lawyers Under 40" (NAPABA 2015), PEAK Women in Finance "Rising Star" (2014), Business in Vancouver's "Forty Under 40" (2013), and on Vancouver Magazine’s 2018 Power 50 List as "one of the city's top business litigators". Instructor for UBC's Allard School of Law, CLE BC, The Advocates Society, CBA BC, OBA, The Directors College on range of topics from litigation strategy to diversity and inclusion.
Partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Business Law Group in Vancouver. Practice focused mainly in the areas of project finance and corporate commercial law, with an emphasis on public-private partnerships, infrastructure and renewable energy projects. Regularly advises domestic and international developers, equity sponsors, lenders and other participants in connection with complex project financings across North America. Recent transactions include advising the successful bidder for the GO Rail Expansion – On Corridor Works Project, the successful bidder for the Edmonton Valley Line West LRT Project, the lenders to a bidder for the Ontario Line RSSOM Project, the lenders to a bidder for the Ontario Line Southern Civil, Stations and Tunnel Project, the lenders to the successful bidder for the Grandview Children’s Hospital Project, a bidder for the Broadway Subway Project, and the lenders to the successful bidder for the QEII Bayers Lake Hospital Project.
National Co-Head of Insurance and Reinsurance Group. With deep insurance regulatory and transactional expertise, advises insurance companies, reinsurance companies, insurance agencies, brokerages, banks and financial institutions on complex transactions, regulatory and corporate governance matters. Acts for Canadian and global insurance companies on significant M&As, reinsurance transactions, transfers, demutualizations, reorganizations, licensing and commercial matters. Advises on all aspects of insurance and bank regulatory compliance: regulatory approvals, financing, outsourcing, privacy, cyber security, anti-money laundering, insurtech/fintech, compliance and market conduct reviews/ investigations, ESG, risk management, permitted investments, and distribution of insurance and other financial services. Acts on the establishment of insurance companies, reinsurance companies, brokerages and banks, and entry to and exit from the Canadian market. Advises regulated and unregulated financial services providers and corporations on what constitutes insurance and licensing requirements.
Focused on contentious antitrust matters, Niki is routinely retained by Canadian and multinational clients facing high-stakes, competition issues, including mergers, cartels, abuses of dominance, false and misleading advertising claims, and class actions. Recent matters involve investigations into social media, food delivery, alleged abuse of dominance in commercial aviation; alleged misleading online price representations in intercity transportation and temporary accommodations; e-Book publishing; airline joint ventures; and class actions regarding salmon, hard drive suspension systems, sub-sovereign bonds, and generic drugs.
Practice focuses on all aspects of antitrust law, foreign investment and national security review. Emphasis on application of these laws to mergers, acquisitions, notifications and market conduct. Regularly provides merger advice to major global companies. Has obtained competition and foreign investment clearances for Canada’s largest transactions, among many others.
Regional Managing Partner for Alberta. Partner in the firm's Real Property & Planning Group in Calgary. Practice focuses on all areas of commercial real estate including acquisition and sale transactions, domestic and cross-border financing, development and leasing. Trusted real estate advisor for over 20 years to property owners, lenders, borrowers, landlords, managers and tenants on the multi-faceted contractual, operational and financial issues they face throughout Canada. Acted also for major property developers, pension funds, REITs and other private investors on numerous significant commercial real estate transactions.
Patrick is co-head of our National capital markets group. Patrick's practice focuses on securities and corporate law, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, take-over bids, private equity deals and public financings. He is counsel to issuers and underwriters in various public offerings (including initial public offerings) and private placements of publicly listed issuers. He participated in numerous take-over bids and going-private transactions of publicly listed issuers, and has acted as counsel to independent committees in connection with various transactions.
Practice is a combination of regulatory, corporate/commercial, litigation, policy and project development work for clients across North America in a variety of industries, including the energy (conventional, upstream, pipelines, LNG, renewables, power generation and transmission)), marine and terminal shipping, mining, forest products, transportation, agri-food (vegetables and cannabis) and manufacturing sectors.
Raj has more than 20 years’ experience in advising clients on their most complicated tax planning or tax disputes needs. Raj is an advisor that provides creative solutions in a way clients can understand and is one of Canada’s most prominent tax lawyers. Raj plays an integral role in many of Canada’s largest transactions and largest tax disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency. He develops creative solutions for complex tax problems and works closely with leading private and public companies, pension funds and private equity firms on all aspects of their domestic and international tax planning. His experience crosses industries and borders, and includes corporate finance, capital markets, REITs, private equity, hedge funds, derivatives, domestic and cross-border reorganizations and mergers and acquisitions. Raj is the principal tax adviser to many leading Canadian companies.
Rami Chalabi is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Group in Toronto and member of the firm’s national Cannabis Group. He has a dynamic corporate commercial practice and is an expert in guiding businesses through complex transactions. With a practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, joint ventures and strategic alliances, Rami acts in both the Canadian and cross-border context. Rami advises a range of clients across the cannabis industry and is resolute in helping them identify and pursue strategic growth opportunities, and advising them on their most critical mandates. From emerging companies to large publicly traded issuers, Rami is trusted by clients to understand their business needs and defend their interests with pragmatic and strategic counsel.
Ranjeev is a partner and Co-Head of McCarthy Tétrault’s national Cannabis Law Group. He helps clients successfully navigate the evolving demands of the cannabis market in Canada and abroad, advising in a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, public listings (IPOs and RTOs), private equity and venture capital transactions, corporate governance matters including acting for special committees, shareholder arrangements, corporate reorganizations, regulatory matters, public markets matters and distribution and supply agreements. He has worked on a number of the most significant mandates in the sector and has been featured in numerous articles and media outlets. Ranjeev has spoken at conferences across Canada and internationally in the US and the UK and is ranked by various ranking services for his work in the cannabis market and for M&A and corporate services. Ranjeev represents “plant touching” and “non-plant touching” private, public, domestic and international clients including new entrants into the cannabis sector, with international experience in the US, UK, continental Europe, South America, Africa and Australia.
Practice focuses on all aspects of domestic and cross-border financings, including acquisition, asset-based, cash flow and recurring revenue based lending, bilateral and syndicated financings, Term B, second lien and mezzanine financings, as well as debtor-in-possession financings and high-yield notes. Recently acted on behalf of a variety of Canadian and US financial institutions including banks, insurance companies and specialty debt funds on asset-based financings and leveraged cash-flow financings and mezzanine financings provided to private equity funds in connection with acquisitions in the gaming, telecom, insurance, medical, technology and manufacturing sectors. Richard brings a pragmatic, solution oriented practical style to closing transactions. In addition to his finance practice, Richard is the Practice Group Leader for the firm’s business law group in Toronto.
Robert Brant is the Managing Partner of our London, England office where he has been based since 1998. He is an experienced corporate/commercial lawyer, focusing his practice on transatlantic M&A and capital markets work. Rob regularly advises a wide range of Canadian and international companies in connection with European M&A and corporate finance transactions (including new stock exchange listings) as well as significant commercial contracts. Mr. Brant’s experience extends to a number of different sectors with a focus on all forms of energy, natural resources, cannabis and technology. Clients which Mr. Brant has recently represented include Asanko Gold, CGI, CIBC, Dadco Group, Duke Royalty, Enbridge, First Quantum Minerals, Helios Investors, Heritage Oil, Mercuria Energy Trading, National Bank, Sundial Growers, TD Bank and Vitol.
Co-leader of the firm’s Global Mining Group. Practice primarily focuses on the areas of M&A and financing. Experience includes advising on significant mining M&A transactions, including takeover bids, business combinations, share or asset sales and joint ventures. Acts for issuers and underwriters on public and private securities offerings as well as providing general securities regulatory and corporate advice to public companies. Acts for mining clients and banks in relation to sizeable mining projects in a wide variety of international jurisdictions, including metal streaming and royalty transactions.
Sandra (Aigbinode) Lange is an associate in our Litigation Group in Calgary. She maintains a general corporate commercial litigation and arbitration practice. She has extensive experience appearing before the Provincial Court of Alberta, Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, the Provincial Court of Ontario, and the Superior Court of Ontario. She has also appeared as counsel at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Successful trial and appellate practice, focused on complex commercial litigation and arbitrations. Extensive trial and appellate experience including in cases considering breach of contract, patents, shareholder disputes, taxation, oppression, professional negligence, and breaches of fiduciary duties. Appears before juries, arbitration panels, administrative and regulatory tribunals, and appellate courts of all levels, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Emphasis on: occupational health and safety (investigations, defence of charges, policy creation, training and implementation); alcohol and drug policies; cannabis (assisted growers and retailer operations through to workplace management of safety sensitive); white collar crime and employee trust thefts; mergers and acquisitions; privacy; workplace employment policies, including training; workplace investigations including training; employee discipline and dismissal; disability and accommodation; human rights and discrimination; workers’ compensation; pension and benefits; and, unionized workforce issues.
Shea Small, Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and Co-Leader of McCarthy Tétrault’s Global Metals & Mining (GMM) Group, has an international practice based in Toronto, Canada and London, UK focusing on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, private equity, capital markets and special situations. Shea is also a member of McCarthy Tétrault’s Senior Leadership Team in his role as Co-Leader, International & Business Strategy. Shea has significant industry expertise, particularly in complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, and deep industry connections in the global metals and mining sector. Shea is repeatedly recognized by Chambers, Lexpert, Best Lawyers, Legal 500, IFLR 1000 and others for his significant experience in M&A, joint ventures, natural resources and international transactions.
Partner. Co-head of the firm’s national Private Equity Group. Focuses on M&A, private equity and investment funds. Advises on domestic and cross-border public/private M&A and other securities matters. Represents institutional investors in their investment activities, including acquisitions and divestitures of portfolio companies and investments in private equity, other alternative investment funds and fund formation. Acted for Vista Equity Partners in its C$4.8 billion acquisition of DH Corporation and the combination of D+H with Vista portfolio company Misys, creating “Finastra”, a new global fintech leader. Presents at various conferences on corporate/securities law.
Practice focuses on project finance and secured lending. Regularly advises Canadian and foreign lenders with respect to the structuring and negotiation of some of the most complex project financings in the Canadian marketplace. Has acted for both lenders, borrowers and governments with respect to project financing, public private partnership infrastructure financings and loan work-outs in the project finance area.
Chair of the firm’s National Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Acted as lead trial and appellate counsel in a broad range of IP cases in Ontario, British Columbia, in the Federal Courts and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Also practised IP Litigation in the United States (Cal.). Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Faculty of Law; teaches Intellectual Property Law.
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.
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.