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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

Baker McKenzie is a leading global law firm with offices in 78 cities worldwide. Protecting your business in today’s global market requires lawyers with an understanding of local, national, and broader issues. Our Canadian litigation team is integrated with more than 1,000 other Baker McKenzie litigators across the globe.

Our Canadian Litigation team includes a host of seasoned trial lawyers. We regularly act for clients in complex domestic and multijurisdictional disputes. Our cases frequently involve novel and precedent‑setting issues. When providing advice, we first do all we can to position our clients and help them avoid litigation. When we need to go to trial, we do so without hesitation. Our team has fought and won some of the most important cases in Canada.

When it comes to appellate expertise, our team has the experience to conduct appeals across a range of areas, including complex commercial, fraud, employment, labour, intellectual property, and administrative and public law matters.

As part of an integrated global team, we ensure that overall business objectives are not sacrificed to one‑off wins, and that our clients’ reputation for fair dealing remains intact. With more than 60 years of experience in the Canadian market, we are committed to helping clients fulfill their ambitions in an increasingly complex global marketplace.

The quality of our work is reflected in the number of leading global and Canadian multinationals that seek our advice on complex matters in a range of industries, including financial services, retail, manufacturing, mining, post‑secondary education, professional services, transportation, pharmaceuticals, and energy.

Firm overview

The foundation of BYLDS’s reputation in the Toronto commercial litigation community is our commitment to quickly achieving practical, results-oriented resolutions to commercial disputes. Our excellence in advocacy and unparalleled personal attention ensures that we don’t look at your case as another case; we look at it as our most important case.

Our services encompass:

• Land-based Disputes and Litigation
• Commercial Lease Disputes, Remedies and Enforcement
• Professional Negligence Defence
• Construction Litigation
• Real Property Development Disputes and Litigation
• Shareholder and Partnership Disputes and Litigation
• Employment Disputes and Litigation
• Business and Contractual Disputes
• General Commercial Litigation
• Product Liability Litigation

BYLDS is located in Toronto’s Financial District at the corner of Adelaide St. W. and York St. Our dynamic leadership, deep well of talent and commitment to our clients is what helps us stand out from the crowd, and consistently deliver outstanding solutions.

Firm overview

Roy O’Connor LLP is widely considered one of Canada’s leading litigation boutiques offering sophisticated advocacy and counsel in the areas of complex corporate commercial litigation, class actions, securities litigation and general civil litigation. Our firm and lawyers are consistently recognized as outstanding lawyers who produce top results for our clients.

Roy O’Connor LLP acts as both plaintiff and defense counsel and acts for many leading public and private corporations, governmental bodies, non-governmental organizations and private individuals in matters that have been high profile or, at other times, very confidential. Roy O’Connor LLP’s lawyers have succeeded in many nationally recognized, precedent-setting cases. By working along side and with our clients, our lawyers apply their creativity and experience to craft the right solution for each client’s often complex problems.

Benchmark Canada - the guide to Canada’s leading litigators- ranks the firm as one of the few recommended firms in Ontario and a firm that shifts “seamlessly between plaintiffs and defence work…” The firm was further recognized with one of the prestigious Benchmark Firm of the Year awards in 2013, 2015, 2017 and again in 2023. The firm also garnered one of the National Impact Case of the Year awards for 2023. The National Magazine, the official publication of the Canadian Bar Association, described our lawyers as among the best class action lawyers in the Country. Lexpert ranks the firm as a consistently recommended leading Toronto boutique in the field of class actions.