Cozen O'Connor

Leadership:

Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer:Michael J. Heller

President & Managing Partner:Vincent R. McGuinness

Managing Partners: Steven Weisz (Toronto), Kathy Tang (Vancouver), Lucy Schilling (Vancouver)

Number of lawyers:950

Offices:

Canada: Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver

UK: London

USA: Washington, DC, New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Boston, MA, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA, Wilmington, DE, Houston and Dallas, TX, Seattle, WA, Atlanta, GA, Minneapolis, MN, Cherry Hill, NJ, Boca Raton, Miami, and West Palm Beach, FL, Boulder and Denver, CO, Charlotte, NC, Richmond, VA, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and West Conshohocken, PA, Las Vegas, NV, and Salt Lake City, UT

Firm Overview:Established in 1970, Cozen O’Connor has over950lawyers who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions. The firm counsels clients on their most sophisticated legal matters in all areas of the law, including litigation, corporate, and regulatory law. Representing a broad array of leading global corporations and middle market companies, Cozen O’Connor serves its clients’ needs through 33 offices across two continents.

Cozen O’Connor LLPis a full-service law firm forCanadian and American businesses,offering informed legal insight and practical solutions across a broad range of industries and practice areas. With offices in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal and a deep bench of experienced lawyers, Cozen O’Connoris proud to deliver trusted counsel with local experience and global reach.The firm advises clients in the areas of antitrust & competition, corporate & commercial, capital markets and securities, commercial litigation, intellectual property, family law and private client services, labour & employment, bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring, tax, and subrogation & recovery.Clients span variousindustries, including technology, life sciences, media, telecommunications, entertainment, mining, and real estate.

Main Areas of Practice:

Antitrust: This practice provides antitrust legal services, including litigation, government investigations, corporate transactions, and regulatory counselling. Lawyers respond to civil and criminal investigations and litigation initiated by the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, state lawyers general, foreign competition authorities, and litigation initiated by private parties.

Bankruptcy & Insolvency: Firm lawyers represent clients in a broad range of commercial litigation and transactional matters, emphasizing domestic and international insolvency, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, restructuring, and reorganization.

Capital Markets & Securities: The Capital Markets & Securities team provides a seamless, one-stop shop for North American cross-border transactions, serving both U.S. companies seeking to list on Canadian exchanges for venture capital and larger Canadian companies looking to access U.S. exchanges for greater liquidity. Services include assisting with IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, advising on corporate governance and compliance, listing on Canadian stock exchanges, and advising on domestic and cross-border public and private debt offerings.

Commercial Litigation: The firm’s litigation department includes trial-tested lawyers who regularly prosecute and defend a diverse caseload of construction litigation, complex corporate and partnership disputes, product liability and mass torts, securities and financial services litigation, trusts and estates litigation, e-discovery disputes, environmental claims, class action defence, and real estate matters.

Corporate: The firm’s corporate lawyers counsel clients on matters related to organization, structure, and governance, provide advice on matters arising in day-to-day operations, assist in negotiating and documenting financing and business expansion transactions, and provide guidance in mergers and acquisitions and divestitures.

Emerging Business & Venture Capital: For emerging companies, corporate lawyers serve as critical partners at every stage in the life cycle of a growing business. Early-stage companies confront rapid and constant change at a point when their corporate structure is often still nascent. Lawyers work with emerging leaders to establish viable internal structures and support day-to-day operations.

Family Practice: The firm's family services group provides a one-stop shop for ultra-high net-worth families and individuals. We assist our clients with the full spectrum of legal needs that come with family wealth administration, including issues relating to real property, commercial interests, trusts, and other holdings, managing all legal aspects of the family’s assets and operations while creating a wealth maximization strategy.

Labour & Employment: The firm’s lawyers counsel and litigate matters, including personnel policies and business transactions, to enhance productivity, comply with legal and immigration requirements, and avoid litigation, as well as qualified and non-qualified plans, retirement plans, executive compensation programs, health and welfare benefits, and ERISA.

Mergers & Acquisitions: The firm handles complex mergers and acquisitions transactions on behalf of strategic and financial buyers and sellers, including public and private companies, multinationals, SPACs, and family offices. Clients rely on this team to structure and negotiate their most transformative deals, measured by both the number of zeros on the term sheet and boldness of the participants’ vision.

Real Estate: This group handles complex commercial acquisitions, dispositions and development, partnerships and joint ventures, leasing, sale/leasebacks, senior debt and mezzanine debt financings, loan restructuring and workouts, and land use and zoning.

Subrogation & Recovery: The firm’s lawyers handle the nation’s most property damage and other first-party subrogation claims. These claims arise from casualties such as fires, explosions, structural collapses, equipment failures, gas and water leaks, and natural disasters.

Tax: Assisting businesses and individuals with minimizing the consequences of federal, state, and local taxes, lawyers have experience in mergers and acquisitions, financings, purchase or sale of businesses, negotiation, and structuring joint ventures, client representations, and real estate matters.