Ranking Table

Litigation: General Commercial

This section ranks those firms and individuals which advise on civil litigation on behalf of businesses, high net worth individuals and other non-public sector entities. The primary focus of this section is corporate litigation and litigation arising out of commercial arrangements, including shareholder disputes, post-M&A disputes and contractual disputes. Less weight is given to civil litigation types which are covered elsewhere in the Canada Guide, for example banking litigation, professional negligence, civil fraud, insurance or restructuring/insolvency. Relevant work for Litigation: Administrative & Public Law will primarily focus on public sector disputes. Judicial reviews, public inquiries, constitutional challenges, parliamentary investigations and other public body disputes are considered, as are broader disputes with public sector interest, including some municipal, privacy and extradition matters. Relevant work for the Litigation: Securities section includes securities class actions, shareholder disputes, proceedings before provincial regulatory agencies and investigations, brokerage disputes and contested takeovers, as well as misrepresentation, oppression, breach of trust and insider trading cases. This chapter exclusively covers courtroom litigation, rather than alternative dispute resolution methods like mediation and arbitration.

How rankings work?

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How rankings work?

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Senior Statesperson
Senior Statespeople
Chris Paliare
Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
11 years ranked
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Paul J Pape
Pape Chaudhury LLP
11 years ranked
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Peter F C Howard
Stikeman Elliott LLP
11 years ranked
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R Paul Steep
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
11 years ranked
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Sheila R Block
Torys LLP
11 years ranked
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Band 1
Band 1
Eliot N Kolers
Stikeman Elliott LLP
11 years ranked
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Jonathan C Lisus
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
11 years ranked
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Kent E Thomson
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
11 years ranked
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Linda M Plumpton
Torys LLP
11 years ranked
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Michael E Barrack
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
11 years ranked
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Peter Griffin KC
Lenczner Slaght
11 years ranked
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Sarit E Batner
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
11 years ranked
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Tom Curry
Lenczner Slaght
11 years ranked
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Band 2
Band 2
Crawford G Smith
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
11 years ranked
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Mark A Gelowitz
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
10 years ranked
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Matthew Milne-Smith
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
10 years ranked
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Matthew P Gottlieb
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
11 years ranked
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Monique Jilesen
Lenczner Slaght
8 years ranked
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Orestes Pasparakis
Norton Rose Fulbright
11 years ranked
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Richard B Swan
Bennett Jones LLP
11 years ranked
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Robert W Staley
Bennett Jones LLP
11 years ranked
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Band 3
Band 3
Alexander D Rose
Stikeman Elliott LLP
4 years ranked
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Andrew Faith
Polley Faith LLP
8 years ranked
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Bradley E. Berg
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
10 years ranked
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Geoff R Hall
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
7 years ranked
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Patrick D Flaherty
Chernos Flaherty Svonkin LLP
8 years ranked
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Sandra A Forbes
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
11 years ranked
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Band 4
Band 4
Alan Mark
Goodmans LLP
11 years ranked
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Andrew E Bernstein
Torys LLP
11 years ranked
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Catherine Beagan Flood
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
6 years ranked
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Chantelle Cseh
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
5 years ranked
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David Chernos
Chernos Flaherty Svonkin LLP
10 years ranked
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David Conklin
Goodmans LLP
10 years ranked
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Derek Ricci
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
6 years ranked
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Gordon Capern
Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
11 years ranked
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James W E Doris
Tyr LLP
11 years ranked
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Jeff Galway
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
11 years ranked
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Kenneth Rosenberg
Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
9 years ranked
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Luis Sarabia
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
11 years ranked
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Peter C Wardle
Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
11 years ranked
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Robert Brush
Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP
7 years ranked
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Sandra Barton
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
5 years ranked
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Simon Bieber
Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP
8 years ranked
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Band 5
Band 5
Chris Hubbard
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
3 years ranked
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Daniel Murdoch
Stikeman Elliott LLP
6 years ranked
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Eli S. Lederman
Lenczner Slaght
2 years ranked
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Gerald (“Gerry”) L.R. Ranking
Fasken
11 years ranked
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Gillian Dingle
Torys LLP
6 years ranked
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James Bunting
Tyr LLP
9 years ranked
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Jeremy Opolsky
Torys LLP
2 years ranked
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John Adair
Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP
9 years ranked
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John Pirie
Baker McKenzie
7 years ranked
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Justin Nasseri
Ross Nasseri
3 years ranked
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Lara Jackson
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
8 years ranked
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Mark Polley
Polley Faith LLP
8 years ranked
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Matthew B. Lerner
Lenczner Slaght
3 years ranked
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Matthew Fleming
Dentons Canada LLP
7 years ranked
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Maureen Littlejohn
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
3 years ranked
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Megan E Shortreed
Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
6 years ranked
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Nadia Campion
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
7 years ranked
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Rahool Agarwal
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
4 years ranked
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Sonia Bjorkquist
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
11 years ranked
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Suzy Kauffman
Goodmans LLP
6 years ranked
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Zohar Levy
Lundy Levy & Eski Barristers LLP
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Band 6
Band 6
Aaron Kreaden
Stikeman Elliott LLP
1 year ranked
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Andrew Carlson
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
1 year ranked
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Andrew Max
Addario Law Group LLP
2 years ranked
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Andrew Winton
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
1 year ranked
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Byron Shaw
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
3 years ranked
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Cynthia Spry
Babin Bessner Spry
2 years ranked
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Edward Babin
Babin Bessner Spry
1 year ranked
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Eric Block
Ross Nasseri
2 years ranked
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Gillian Kerr
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
1 year ranked
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James Renihan
Norton Rose Fulbright
1 year ranked
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John Mather
DMG Advocates LLP
2 years ranked
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Jordan Goldblatt
Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP
2 years ranked
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Kathryn Manning
DMG Advocates LLP
1 year ranked
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Lauren Tomasich
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
3 years ranked
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Mark Evans
Dentons Canada LLP
1 year ranked
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Paul Michell
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
10 years ranked
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Sam Robinson
Stockwoods LLP
2 years ranked
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Sarah Armstrong
Fasken
6 years ranked
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Shaun Laubman
Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP
3 years ranked
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Steven G. Frankel
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
2 years ranked
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Daniel Naymark
Naymark LLP
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Up-and-coming Individual
Up and Coming
Adam Hirsh
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
1 year ranked
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Avi Bourassa
Ross Nasseri
2 years ranked
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Brad Vermeersch
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
2 years ranked
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Chanakya Sethi
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
1 year ranked
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Clarke Tedesco
Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP
3 years ranked
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Erika Anschuetz
Norton Rose Fulbright
1 year ranked
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Erin Pleet
Ross Nasseri
1 year ranked
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Fahad Siddiqui
Norton Rose Fulbright
2 years ranked
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Jacqueline Cole
Ross Nasseri
1 year ranked
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Jeffrey Haylock
Polley Faith LLP
2 years ranked
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Nathan J. Shaheen
Bennett Jones LLP
1 year ranked
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Nathaniel Read-Ellis
Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP
1 year ranked
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Philip Underwood
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
3 years ranked
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Sahil Shoor
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
3 years ranked
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Associate to watch
Associates to watch
Alisa McMaster
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
3 years ranked
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Mitchell Fournie
Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP
2 years ranked
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Wei Jiang
Whelton Hiutin LLP
1 year ranked
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