INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE RANKINGS
CANADA BEST LAW FIRMS
M&A - Large Cap
The firms are listed alphabetically within each band
FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS
LEADING
1 Blake Cassel & Graydon (Blakes) Brock W. Gibson, Robert M. Granatstein
Davies Ward Philipps & Vineberg William Ainley
Stikeman Elliott John W. Leopold, William Braithwaite, Jeffrey Singer
2 McCarthy Tétrault Cameron Belsher
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Emmanuel Z. Pressman, Jeremy Fraiberg, Robert M. Yalden
Torys John Emanoilidis, Cornell C.V. Wright
EXCELLENT
Fasken Martineau Jon Levin, Richard Steinberg
Goodmans Dale Lastman, Stephen Halperin
Norton Rose Fulbright Norman Steinberg, Andrew Fleming
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Bennett Jones John D. MacNeil, Linda Misetich Dann, Alan Bell, Brent W. Kraus
Borden Lardner Gervais Paul A. D. Mingay
Dentons Rob (Robert) R. Roth, Allen Garson
RECOMMENDED
Burnet Buckworth & Palmer Grant A. Zawalsky, C. Steven Cohen
Cassels Brock & Blackwell Mark Young, Marc Mercier
DLA Piper* Marc Philibert, Brian Hiebert
Gowling WLG Michael Herman, Cyndi D. Laval
*Davis, a law firm based in Canada, joined DLA Piper Alliance in 2015
William Ainley
L eader:
William Ainley
E stablished:
1961
Track record: The Toronto-based firm advised
Shaw Communication in the C$2.65 bil-
lion acquisition of Shaw media by Corus
entertainment, as well as Wind Mobile in
their acquisition by Shaw Communication
for C$1.165 billion. The firm also acted for
SmartCentres in its C$1.16 billion acquisition
by Calloway Real Estate Investment Trust.
Team & differentiation: With offices in Toronto,
Montreal and New York, the firm focuses on
business law in the state of the art definition
of the term, with a group of 240 lawyers advi-
sing on M&A/corporate, private equity, tax,
banking & finance, energy, PPP and dispute
resolution. The M&A practice works with the
tier-one segment of fortune 500 companies
and is active in major cross-border deals.
DAVIES WARD PHILIPPS & VINEBERG:
A VERY IMPRESSIVE DEAL LIST
Jeffrey Singer
L eader:
John W. Leopold, William
Braithwaite and Jeffrey
Singer
E stablished:
1952
Track record: The firm is known for its ability to
work on sophisticated cross-border deals. It
advised the Canadian document destruction
services provider Shred-It International on
their $2.3 billion acquisition by Stericycle, as
well as Legacy Oil + Gas during their C$1.53
billion acquisition by Crescent Point Energy.
Team & differentiation: Made up of 47
partners and 100 other professionals, the
M&A group works closely with other prac-
titioners throughout the firm to provide a full
array of expertise in related services such as
private equity/venture capital, tax and envi-
ronment law. Partner Jeffrey Singer focuses
on domestic and international M&A, corpo-
rate finance and private equity related tran-
sactions.
STIKEMAN ELLIOTT:
CROSS-BORDER DEALMAKER