News and Recognitions

Torys is pleased to announce we have been rated "consistently recommended" as a firm by Lexpert/Thomson Reuters' Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011, and that 56 of our lawyers are recognized as leading practitioners.

• Ian Arellano—most frequently recommended in corporate mid-market
• James C. Baillie—consistently recommended in corporate commercial law and corporate finance & securities; repeatedly recommended in banking & financial, institutions – financial, institutions regulatory and mergers & acquisitions
• Mark W. S. Bain—most frequently recommended in project finance
• Richard J. Balfour—most frequently recommended in corporate commercial law, corporate finance & securities and mergers & acquisitions
• Peter D. Ballantyne—consistently recommended in private equity; repeatedly recommended in corporate commercial law
• Sheila R. Block—consistently recommended in international commercial arbitration, litigation – public law and professional liabilty; most frequently recommended in litigation – directors' and officers' liability, litigation – corporate commercial, litigation – securities and litigation – class actions; repeatedly recommended in litigation – defamation & media, litigation – intellectual property, litigation – commercial insurance and litigation – product liability
• Scott Bomhof—consistently recommended in insolvency & financial restructuring and insolvency & financial restructuring – litigation
• Corrado Cardarelli—most frequently recommended in income funds; repeatedly recommended in corporate tax
• David A. Chaikof—most frequently recommended in corporate mid-market; repeatedly recommended in corporate finance & securities
• David P. Chernos—repeatedly recommended in litigation – corporate commercial and litigation – securities
• Scott R. Cochlan—repeatedly recommended in corporate finance & securities
• Matthew W. Cockburn—consistently recommended in corporate finance & securities; repeatedly recommended in private equity and mergers & acquisitions
• Richard A. Conway—repeatedly recommended in litigation – corporate commercial and litigation – securities
• Marlene J. Davidge—consistently recommended in corporate finance & securities; most frequently recommended in investment funds & asset management; repeatedly recommended in corporate commercial law and derivative instruments
• Adam E. Delean—most frequently recommended in banking & financial institutions
• David A. Dell—repeatedly recommended in project finance
• Ron Deyholos—repeatedly recommended in energy (oil & gas)
• Stephen J. Donovan—repeatedly recommended in private equity
• John A. Fabello—consistently recommended in litigation – securities
• Michael K. Feldman—consistently recommended in asset equipment finance/leasing; most frequently recommended in asset securitization and banking & financial institutions; repeatedly recommended in corporate finance & securities and derivative instruments
• Daniel A. Ford—repeatedly recommended in project finance
• Kevin A. Fougere—consistently recommended in banking & financial institutions; repeatedly recommended in project finance
• Sharon C. Geraghty—most frequently recommended in corporate commercial law, corporate finance & securities and mergers & acquisitions; repeatedly recommended in private equity
• Valerie Helbronner—consistently recommended in energy (electricity)
• Krista F. Hill—consistently recommended in energy (electricity)
• R. Jay Holsten—consistently recommended in competition law
• Jim S. Hong—repeatedly recommended in asset securitization
• Harold Huber—consistently recommended in energy (oil & gas); repeatedly recommended in energy (electricity)
• Frank Iacobucci—consistently recommended in international commercial arbitration and aboriginal law; repeatedly recommended in corporate commercial law and litigation – public law
• Patricia D. S. Jackson—most frequently recommended in litigation – corporate commercial and litigation – class actions; repeatedly recommended in litigation – defamation & media, litigation – securities, litigation – public law and professional liability
• Peter E. S. Jewett—most frequently recommended in corporate commercial law, corporate finance & securities and mergers & acquisitions
• Glen R. Johnson—repeatedly recommended in corporate finance & securities
• Blair W. Keefe—most frequently recommended in banking & financial institutions, banking & financial instiutions – financial institutions regulatory
• Charles Keizer—most frequently recommended in energy (electricity)
• Patricia A. Koval—most frequently recommended in corporate finance & securities and investment funds & asset management; repeatedly recommended in corporate commercial law and mergers & acquisitions
• John B. Laskin—consistently recommended in litigation – directors' & officers' liability; most frequently recommended in litigation – corporate commercial and litigation – public law; repeatedly recommended in international commercial arbitration, litigation – securities, litigation – class actions and professional liability
• Daniel Logan—repeatedly recommended in computer & IT law and technology transactions
• Dennis E. Mahony—repeatedly recommended in environmental law
• Wendy Matheson—repeatedly recommended in litigation – corporate commercial, litigation – class actions and litigation – product liability
• Conor D. M. McCourt—consistently recommended in biotechnology; repeatedly recommended in intellectual property
• Eileen M. McMahon—most frequently recommended in biotechnology; repeatedly recommended in intellectual property
• Philip Mohtadi—consistently recommended in corporate finance & securities
• Karrin Powys-Lybbe—repeatedly recommended in corporate finance & securities
• Cheryl V. Reicin—consistently recommended in biotechnology
• James D. Scarlett—most frequently recommended in income funds, corporate commercial law, corporate finance & securities and mergers & acquisitions
• Andrew M. Shaughnessy—consistently recommended in biotechnology; repeatedly recommended in intellectual property and litigation – intellectual property
• David A. Steele—repeatedly recommended in charities/not-for-profit law and estate & personal tax planning – estate & tax planning
• Gabor G. S. Takach—consistently recommended in computer & IT law; most frequently recommended in technology transactions
• John A. Terry—repeatedly recommended in litigation – public law
• John J. Tobin—consistently recommended in asset equipment finance/leasing
• James C. Tory—consistently recommended in litigation – directors' & officers' liability and litigation – securities; most frequently recommended in litigation – corporate commercial; repeatedly recommended in professional liability
• John Unger—repeatedly recommended in corporate tax
• Jonathan B. Weisz—consistently recommended in energy (electricity); most frequently recommended in project finance; repeatedly recommended in banking & financial institutions
• James W. Welkoff—repeatedly recommended in corporate tax
• Joel Wiesenfeld—most frequently recommended in litigation – securities
• Peter R. Wilcox—repeatedly recommended in intellectual property and litigation – intellectual property