Torys once again recognized in IFLR1000’s 2022 Leading Lawyers guide

Torys continues to maintain its position as a top law firm after the IFLR1000 2022 Leading Lawyers guide ranked seven of the firm’s practice areas as Tier 1 and two practice areas as Tier 2, in addition to listing 50 of the firm’s partners for their outstanding market recognition.

The firm remains a leader in all nine practice areas analyzed by IFLR. This includes:

• Banking: Tier 2
• Capital markets – equity: Tier 1
• Capital markets – debt: Tier 1
• Financial services regulatory: Tier 1
• M&A: Tier 1
• Project finance: Tier 1
• Project development – energy: Tier 1
• Project development – infrastructure: Tier 1
• Restructuring/insolvency: Tier 2

Furthermore, 50 lawyers have been listed as leaders in their practice with nine new practitioners joining the ranks. Of those listed, Amanda Balasubramanian, Scott Kraag, Konata Lake and Karrin Powys-Lybbe have all gone up in ranking. The full list is as follows:

• Mike Akkawi: highly regarded *newly ranked
• Mike Amm: highly regarded *newly ranked
• Adam Armstrong: highly regarded
• Mark Bain: market leader
• Amanda Balasubramanian: market leader *increased in ranking
• Richard Balfour: highly regarded
• Don Bell: notable practitioner
• Ricco Bhasin: notable practitioner
• David Bish: highly regarded
• Scott Bomhof: highly regarded
• David Chaikof: notable practitioner
• Scott Cochlan: highly regarded
• Matthew Cockburn: highly regarded
• Peter Danner: highly regarded
• Adam Delean: highly regarded
• Tony DeMarinis: highly regarded
• John Emanoilidis: highly regarded
• Michael Feldman: highly regarded *newly ranked
• Derek Flaman: highly regarded *newly ranked
• Daniel Ford: highly regarded *newly ranked
• Kevin Fougere: highly regarded
• Krista Hill: notable practitioner
• Jim Hong: highly regarded *newly ranked
• Glen Johnson: highly regarded
• Neville Jugnauth: notable practitioner
• Blair Keefe: highly regarded
• Simon Knowling: notable practitioner
• Scott Kraag: market leader *increased in ranking
• Konata Lake: highly regarded *increased in ranking
• Robbie Leibel: rising star
• Tara Mackay: highly regarded
• Nina Mansoori: highly regarded
• Jill McCutcheon: highly regarded
• Eli Monas: rising star
• Kevin Morris: highly regarded
• Janan Paskaran: highly regarded
• Michael Pedlow: rising star
• Karrin Powys-Lybbe: market leader *increased in ranking
• Rima Ramchandani: highly regarded
• Don Roger: notable practitioner
• David Seville: highly regarded
• Zehra Sheerazi: rising star *newly ranked
• Adam Slavens: highly regarded
• Stephanie Stimpson: highly regarded
• Josh Van Deurzen: highly regarded
• Jacob Weinstock: rising star *newly ranked
• Richard Willoughby: notable practitioner *newly ranked
• Michael Zackheim: highly regarded
• Milosz Zemanek: highly regarded
• Tom Zverina: highly regarded

The 32nd edition of Leading Lawyers features submissions from across more than 120 markets and is a detailed analysis of lawyers working in corporate finance. You can learn more about the methodology process and find additional details for this list on IFLR1000’s website.

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