Client Centered Solutions

Business is not always certain. When faced with uncertainty, our clients trust us to deliver creative, practical, results-driven solutions, designed to unlock and maximize value in distressed scenarios.

Our Banking & Financial Services group currently acts for over 40 domestic and foreign lenders, including all six Schedule I banks, numerous credit unions, insurance companies, trust companies, mortgage investment corporations, investment funds and various private lenders.

Business moves fast. We do too. In the boardroom, in the field, online and around the world, we pride ourselves on being a strategic partner to our clients and delivering tailored legal solutions to make law work at the speed of business.

Managing work, for Management. Employees make business work. We work with management to navigate Canada’s ever-changing labour and employment landscape, ensuring the best possible result in every negotiation and dispute.

We provide a broad range of legal services for franchisors, individual franchisees, groups of franchisees and franchise associations. Our seasoned lawyers draw on many years of experience in franchise law, and a deep understanding of the complexities of the legal and business relationship created by the franchisor and franchisee, including the enforcement of the rights afforded to either party through either the court system or legal proceedings.

We advocate to win. Every time. Legal disputes have many angles. We balance the issues, the costs and the benefits, to provide our clients with real-time options and secure the best outcome in every case.

There is no substitute for experience. Our long tenure as a leading firm for municipal, land use planning and development law stems from a combination of our experience in government law as well as commercial real estate, construction, public-private partnerships and their related financial structures.

Unique Issues. One-of-a-Kind Advocacy. With a quarter century of experience serving municipalities and litigating insurance matters, we get public law and insurance disputes like no one else.

A cornerstone of business. From the ground up. Legal issues concerning real property can make or break a business, and those issues are diverse. In any sector – commercial, industrial, retail or vacant land – we deliver the legal foundation to take our clients to new heights.

In an ever-evolving industry, we deliver a constant: real-time legal solutions. From technology M&A and licensing, to managing patent, trademark and copyright portfolios, to enforcing IP rights, to that first “lighting strike” of an idea, we empower our client’s innovation.

The planning and administration of wills, estates, and trusts is an increasingly complex area and a comprehensive estate plan is essential in order to ensure that assets and business interests are protected in the event of death or incapacity.The members of our Wills, Trusts & Estates Group work closely with our clients and their other professional advisors to develop a customized estate plan and to provide a full range of sophisticated legal and planning advice. Our goal is to help our clients arrange their personal and business affairs in the most efficient and advantageous manner possible.Focusing on both long-term estate planning requirements as well as ongoing family-related concern...