Tyr LLP is a litigation firm based in Toronto. Tyr specializes in trial work and providing strategic advocacy and practical solutions to complex disputes. Founded by a group of highly experienced litigators from one of Canada’s leading litigation firms, Tyr’s lawyers apply their advocacy and litigation skill set across a broad range of subject matters to best serve the needs of the firm’s diverse client base. Tyr’s lawyers are consistently highly ranked in peer-reviewed publications, including Chambers, Lexpert, Benchmark Canada, IAM Patent 1000, World Trademark Review 1000 and Best Lawyers.
The lawyers at Tyr have decades of experience pursuing and defending complex claims, including for some of the world’s most well-known public companies and institutions. Tyr’s lawyers are fearless advocates and have been involved in high stakes and precedent-setting cases, including defending class actions brought against some of Canada’s largest companies.
Tyr is committed to providing excellent client service and creative, practical and efficient solutions that align with its clients’ objectives. Tyr has the expertise and bench strength to take on the biggest and most important cases, and the flexibility to handle smaller matters efficiently.
Our lawyers are experienced across a diverse range of areas including:
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Updated April 2024
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.
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Updated March 2023
Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP is one of Canada’s top corporate commercial and securities litigation law firms. Based on extensive peer and client reviews, the firm and the firm’s partners are ranked nationally among the best of their peers by the leading legal ranking services.
Corporate Commercial Litigation
Our corporate commercial litigation practice specializes in managing complex high-stakes litigation. We are business litigators who act for plaintiffs and defendants in all manner of corporate and commercial litigation matters including disputes arising out of mergers and acquisitions, breach of contract suits, director and officer liability claims, oppression remedy matters, business tort claims, fraud and cyber-fraud investigations and claims, wrongful dismissal actions, professional negligence suits, corporate governance and accounting issues, and corporate investigations. Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP also has significant expertise litigating professional negligence claims involving securities industry professionals and accountants.
Securities Litigation
Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP is the largest dedicated securities litigation team in Canada. We are ranked in Band 1 (the highest level) for securities litigation by Chambers and are the only boutique law firm in the top Band. Our securities litigators are client-focused and business-minded, providing representation for market partic-ipants in a wide range of disputes and regulatory investigations. We have successfully represented clients in some of the most significant and high-profile securities law cases in Canada.
Our securities litigation practice includes primary and secondary market liability claims, claims arising out the restatement of a company’s financial statements, claims arising out of alleged fraud, claims against investment dealers and advisors in respect of allegedly problematic investment products, strategies and tax shelters, and claims against investment funds, fund managers and traders arising out of allegedly problematic trading strategies. Our firm has particular expertise with investment loss litigation. We have represented clients in cases that range from suitability claims to more complex trading in options, commodities, derivative products and leveraged investing.
Our securities regulatory defence practice includes investigations and enforcement proceedings brought by the OSC and CIRO. We have significant experience with cross-border investigations involving the SEC and other US regulators.
Awards and Rankings
In addition to being awarded Securities Litigation Firm of the Year by Benchmark every year since 2017, Lexpert ranked Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP in 7th position out of 20 law firms for Commercial Litigation in Toronto in 2024. Based on extensive peer and client reviews, Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP is ranked in Band 1 for Securities Litigation by Chambers Canada. Our firm has also been selected as an Excellence Awardee for Liti-gation & Dispute Resolution Boutique Firm of the Year by the Canadian Law Awards.
Partners
Robert Brush: +1 416 217 0822 | rbrush@cmblaw.ca
Michael Byers: +1 416 217 0886 | mbyers@cmblaw.ca
Dana Carson: +1 416 217 0855 | dcarson@cmblaw.ca
Alistair Crawley: +1 416 217 0806 | acrawley@cmblaw.ca
Linda Fuerst: +416 217-0853 l fuerst@cmblaw.ca
Melissa MacKewn: +1 416 217 0840 | mmackewn@cmblaw.ca
Kate McGrann: +1 416 217 0850 | kmcgrann@cmblaw.ca
Matthew Scott: +1 416 217 0870 | mscott@cmblaw.ca
Clarke Tedesco: +1 416 217 0884 | ctedesco@cmblaw.ca
Dan Thomas: +1 416 217 0773 | dthomas@cmblaw.ca
Updated April 2024
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.