International Corporate Finance

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