Québec

Firm overview

At Langlois, we offer a full range of legal services widely recognized for their quality, encompassing civil and commercial litigation, employment and labour law, insurance law, and business law. Our experienced professionals advise clients across a broad spectrum of sectors, including capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, construction and infrastructure, financial services, governance and ethics, insolvency and restructuring, taxation, maritime law, and intellectual property.

As one of Québec’s leading law firms, with more than 175 professionals, we stand out through the excellence of our services, the strength of our leadership, and our enduring commitment to organizational well-being—key pillars that contribute to our clients’ success, both in and out of the courtroom.

Our team’s agility, combined with our collaborative approach, allows us to deliver seamless, cross-practice solutions tailored to each client’s reality. Our model blends the proximity and responsiveness of a smaller firm with the full-service capabilities of a large one.

With more than 100 professionals, Langlois’ litigation group is among the largest in Québec. We cover the whole spectrum of legal disputes, including all stages of class action proceedings. Our team is recognized for its strategic case management, deep procedural knowledge, and unwavering focus on advancing our clients’ broader interests.

Throughout our history, Langlois has played a key role in precedent-setting litigation that has shaped the legal landscape in Québec and across Canada. Our team has successfully represented clients in numerous class actions in a wide range of industries, including air transportation, banking, telecommunications, automotive, pharmaceutical, and energy.

Firm overview

As a leading business law firm, McMillan LLP serves public, private and not-for-profit clients across key industries in Canada, the United States and internationally. With recognized expertise and acknowledged leadership in major business sectors, we provide solutions-oriented legal advice through our offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montréal.

To help organizations stay ahead, we provide exceptional industry insights in transportation, technology and technology transactions, infrastructure and construction, and natural resources and energy. Whether it’s a cross-border transaction, a complicated private equity deal, complex real estate financing, or a bet-the-company lawsuit or regulatory dispute, by fostering a supportive workplace culture, McMillan’s 300+ lawyers serve clients with excellence and responsiveness, delivering the real-time solutions they need.

Our firm values - respect, teamwork, commitment, client service and professional excellence - are at the heart of McMillan’s commitment to serve our clients, our local communities and the legal profession. Among other industry and professional accolades, we are proud to be named Canada’s Top 100 Employers 2024, one of only two law firms recognized in this prestigious competition.

About our Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group

With an impressive track record in domestic and cross-border litigation, McMillan’s lawyers are recognized for their creativity and effectiveness in bringing disputes to satisfactory conclusions, both inside and outside the courts. And with specialists in key areas such as competition, intellectual property, real estate, securities and others, our litigators always strive to deliver a complete solution—no matter the nature of your corporate or commercial disputes.

As experienced litigators, we always assess risk and opportunities before advising clients on the likelihood of success and helping them weigh their options. We also understand that litigation is not always the preferred option, and help clients pursue a full range of resolution avenues including early negotiated settlements and alternative dispute resolution methods. If we proceed to court, however, we are recognized for our ability to tenaciously advance our clients’ commercial interests.

Firm overview

Torys LLP is an international business law firm that works with clients who expect the best advice and exceptional service. Torys’ dedication to excellence across practice areas and industries has resulted in an enviable record of experience in Canada and globally. Teamwork is one of the firm’s distinguishing features, reflected in all aspects of how the firm partners with clients and collaborates internally. Long-standing clients continue to retain Torys, not only for its excellent service and legal expertise, but also because of a shared value for lasting partnerships based on trust and respect. The firm serves clients across Canada and globally from offices in Toronto, New York, Calgary, Montréal and its Legal Services Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Torys’ nationwide disputes practice includes some of the most sophisticated litigators in the country. Bet-the-company commercial claims, reputationally critical class actions, complex arbitrations—Torys has a decades-long track record of high-profile domestic and international experience. Above all, they are skilled advocates: litigators who understand their clients’ business and are true partners vested in their success, inside and outside the courtroom. Beyond commercial matters, Torys’ experience extends to securities litigation, product liability disputes, significant antitrust issues and patent infringements, among others.

Torys’ litigation team draws on the broader firm’s wealth of corporate, compliance and regulatory knowledge to benefit their clients' goals, both in the context of a dispute and to mitigate long-term risk and resolve their most challenging matters.

Firm overview

WOODS LLP is the foremost litigation, arbitration and insolvency firm in Canada, recognised nationally and internationally for its expertise and success. Its team of attorneys — multilingual, trained in civil law and common law, dedicated to successful advocacy and understanding clients' interests — is known for its winning strategies and concrete results in high stakes disputes. The firm is proud of its reputation for having the talent and drive to handle the largest and most complex disputes, while remaining highly flexible, responsive and efficient.

Woods LLP acts for public and private companies, individuals and governments in corporate, commercial and administrative litigation, before all levels of courts and tribunals in Canada. It has a highly successful track record in disputes regarding corporate liability and governance, directors’ and officers’ liability, shareholders’ disputes, securities litigation, class actions, complex commercial agreements, as well as in strategic matters requiring urgent, injunctive relief. The firm also boasts an important practice in insolvency, employment law and defamation, as well as one of Canada’s only full-time international arbitration practices, representing clients and serving as arbitrators in international commercial and investment disputes.