Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

With locations in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP remains a force in the practice space, bringing strength to advising major domestic and multinational financial institutes and corporates (including the Royal Bank of Canada, Microsoft and General Motors) on large-scale and mid-cap market deals, such as cross-border M&A (including privatizations and corporate restructurings), securities and capital markets matters. The practice is led in Toronto by   corporate national chair Michael Innes, a securities and M&A specialist, who assists issuers and market participants across such sectors as telecoms, life sciences, mining, tech, food, real estate and media; Jeremy Fraiberg, who brings expertise to transactions involving private equity firms and pension funds; and Alex Gorka, who represents investment dealers in conflict transactions, financial advisory assignments and fairness opinion issues. Other key figures include managing partner Douglas Bryce in Toronto; Frank Turner in Calgary, who advises clients in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa on acquisitions and investments in the Canadian market; and Douglas Marshall, who assists with public take-over bids, share and asset acquisitions and divestitures, and mining sector expert James Brown (both also in Toronto). New partner Brad Newby joined from Farris LLP in February 2023.