Ontario

Firm overview

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP is a Canadian law firm focused on serving the advocacy, advisory, and transactional needs of the country’s most dynamic business sectors.

Cassels brings a rare depth and breadth of experience to both the negotiating table and the courtroom. We offer recognized expertise in resolving complex legal issues, pride ourselves on developing inventive and effective means of solving problems and have a reputation for assertive and efficient settlements built on a track record of favorable motion and trail decisions – counsel know that we are ready, willing, and able to go all the way to court.

Our litigators represent clients at all levels of federal and provincial courts including the Alberta, BC, and Ontario Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Cassels also boasts one of the country’s leading class action defence teams — we successfully defended the first-ever class action in Ontario and have maintained our position as a mar-ket leader with precedent-setting class action defence work ever since. As your strategic advisors, our approach to litigation focuses on two things – reputation and success.

Cassels offers one of the largest law practices in Canada, advising clients from start-ups to multi-national organizations — across the street and around the world — and we are consistently cited as market leaders by such authorities as Chambers, Lexpert, and Best Lawyers.

We are dedicated to staying on the leading edge of trends in law and business to offer practical and flexible solutions to any legal challenge.

At Cassels, your success is our priority.

Select Key Industries and Areas of Practice:

• Aboriginal
• Banking & Specialty Finance
• Blockchain & Digital Assets
• Business
• Cannabis
• Class Actions
• Competition & Foreign Investment
• Construction
• Employment & Labour
• Energy
• Entertainment & Sports
• Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
• Franchise
• High Growth &Venture Capital
• Hospitality
• Information Technology & Data Privacy
• Infrastructure
• Insurance & Reinsurance
• Intellectual Property
• International Trade
• Litigation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Mining
• Municipal, Planning & Environmental
• Private Equity
• Product Liability
• Real Estate & Development
• Regulatory
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Securities
• Securities Litigation
• Taxation
• Universities & Colleges

Firm overview

Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb (LOLG) is Canada’s premier counsel firm. The firm’s lawyers handle the most complex commercial disputes and public law cases. They carry a robust trial, arbitration, and appellate practice across the country and in the Supreme Court of Canada.

LOLG is regularly engaged as trial and appellate co-counsel by peer law firms, and as court officers in large and sensitive litigation mandates. The firm also acts as counsel in class actions, securities litigation and administrative law matters, as well as infrastructure, franchise, employment and health law disputes.

LOLG has one of Canada’s leading restructuring & insolvency practices. The firm’s insolvency counsel are ranked among the top nationally and have material roles in Canada’s largest and most complex insolvency proceedings and restructurings. LOLG also has a dedicated insurance litigation practice. The firm is engaged as leading counsel advising policyholder clients on insurance claims and litigating coverage disputes against major insurers.

LOLG’s practitioners are leaders at the bar, holding positions on the Chief Justice of Ontario’s Advisory Committee on Professionalism and the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, and fellowships in elite trial organizations. Its associates are of the highest caliber, recruited primarily from judicial clerkships at the Supreme Court of Canada, provincial Courts of Appeal, and the Commercial List of the Superior Court of Justice. LOLG’s partners are among the most consistently recommended counsel in Canada and represent clients in Canada, the United States, and from overseas.

Firm overview

Ross Nasseri LLP is widely recognized as a premier Canadian litigation boutique that specializes in civil and regulatory litigation. The firm and its individual partners have received multiple accolades from leading publications for their litigation work. Ross Nasseri’s lawyers are battle-tested: They all boast a significant record of published cases and also have extensive experience in private forums such as domestic and international commercial arbitrations and confidential investigations. Ross Nasseri litigators have built a reputation as fearless and tenacious advocates who fight for their clients’ interests inside and outside of the courtroom.

The firm’s civil/regulatory practice includes corporate/commercial disputes, estates litigation, construction cases, administrative/regulatory discipline hearings, large scale class actions, shareholder disputes, injunctions, private investigations, and oppression cases. The firm is also one of few with expertise in acting on and providing advice in situations where there are parallel or concurrent civil, criminal, and regulatory proceedings.

Ross Nasseri’s clientele includes major developers, tech companies, publicly traded companies, regulated professionals, government entities, and privately held businesses of all sizes. RN lawyers are valued for their mature litigation instincts and their ability to either resolve cases on favourable terms or push them forward expeditiously to a hearing.

Some of our recent representative matters include:

• Obtaining significant ex parte relief in a $5.6 million bookkeeper fraud case, in which our firm secured Mareva, Norwich, Anton Piller, and passport surrender relief as well as several Certificates of Pending Litigation in a Commercial List proceeding;
  
  
• Acting for a major developer in multiple contract disputes and proceedings with a regulator;
  
  
• Acting for the management of a tech-real estate market disruptor in multiple proceedings, and successfully defeating an application for Norwich relief and obtaining a substantial indemnity costs award in the process;
  
  
• Winning a 7-week trial in which the firm’s client received judgment for malicious prosecution and abuse of process and was awarded substantial indemnity costs;
  
  
• One of our partners had a significant role as Commission Counsel in the Public Order Emergency Commission that was tasked with investigating the federal government’s exercise of power under the Emergencies Act;
  
  
• Acting as co-counsel to the receiver in the Bridging Finance Matter; a case in which a lender with a reported $2billion net asset value and over 26,000 retail investors was put into receivership after an investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission detected fraud by certain of its executives
  
  
• Acting as co-counsel in the Fehr v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada class proceedings

Updated April 2024

Firm overview

Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP is a Canadian law firm with offices in both Vancouver and Toronto. Since our beginnings, we have grown to a team of nearly 70 lawyers and over 100 employees. We have expanded into the Toronto market, merging our well-known and respected Vancouver practice with the practices of senior commercial litigation and senior construction and infrastructure lawyers in Toronto. This combination of geography and experience formed a powerful national platform from which to better serve our clients across the country.

We offer an extensive range of legal services in the areas of construction and infrastructure, commercial litigation, commercial real estate, corporate commercial, insurance defense, professional liability, product liability, workplace law, and business immigration.

Our core area of practice is construction and infrastructure law, with over half of the lawyers in the firm focused on this area. Our construction lawyers are recognized practitioners, litigators, solicitors, and engineers who have a wealth of experience to draw on.

We have a strong history of assisting clients with a variety of projects nationwide. We work on all matters in our space including large-scale infrastructure, institutional, industrial, and commercial projects such as highways, railways, tunnels, pipelines, mines, industrial facilities, schools and other education facilities, hospitals, manufacturing plants, commercial buildings, and condominiums.

A Client Focused Approach
At Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP we have developed our firm with a fundamental understanding that our clients deserve exceptional legal service that is delivered in a manner that is honest, creative, clear, relatable, flexible, and cost effective.

We provide solutions customized to our clients’ needs in various sectors including education, healthcare, government, and industry. We help our clients seize emerging opportunities and find solutions to complex legal problems.

Our lawyers have an impeccable sense of the challenges that can arise within their areas of expertise and are committed to working together collaboratively across disciplines to find the best solutions for our clients.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Canada is leading the world in terms of diversity, inclusion and pluralism. It is a strength that unifies our country and its people, and strengthens business relationships creating opportunities for success.

At Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, inclusion and pluralism in the workplace that embraces the unique backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and talents of individuals at all levels of the firm to ensure that we represent the communities we serve in Canada.

As the firm continues to grow, we are committed to consistently improving our diversity and inclusion policies to ensure they continue to reflect the culture and values of our employees and clients.

Community Involvement and Pro Bono Work
Beyond our commitment to our staff and our clients, our firm is also committed to the communities in which we have been able to grow and thrive. In that regard, we as a firm, and our individual members, are involved in a variety of community-oriented organizations.

We also encourage our lawyers to get involved with pro bono work by offering each lawyer credits every year for time spent providing legal services on pro bono files that reflect their individual interests and commitments.

Our lawyers have participated over the years as instructors of various courses taught at the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, the University of Melbourne, and Stanford University. We are keenly interested in education as it relates to our practices and the development of future experts in law.

Key Areas of Expertise:

• Construction and Infrastructure
• Commercial Litigation
• Professional Liability
• Product Liability
• Directors and Officer’s Liability
• Insurance
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Arbitration and International Arbitration
• Public Policy
• Wills and Estates
• Workplace Law
• Entertainment Law
• Corporate Commercial
  
  

Updated April 2024