Torys is pleased to announce that 38 of our lawyers are recognized as leading practitioners in Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2008:

• James C. Baillie—most frequently recommended in banking and financial services law, corporate commercial law and in corporate finance and securities; repeatedly recommended in banking and financial services law and in financial institutions regulation—Ontario and M&A 
• Richard J. Balfour—most frequently recommended in corporate commercial law, corporate finance and securities and in M&A
• Peter D. Ballantyne—consistently recommended in private equity; repeatedly recommended in corporate commercial law
• Sheila R. Block—consistently recommended in litigation: defamation and media, public law and professional liability; most frequently recommended in international commercial arbitration, litigation: directors' and officers' liability, corporate commercial, securities and class actions; repeatedly recommended in litigation: intellectual property and product liability
• Scott A. Bomhof—repeatedly recommended in insolvency and financial restructuring
• Philip J. Brown—consistently recommended in corporate commercial law; most frequently recommended in corporate finance and securities and in M&A 
• Corrado Cardarelli—consistently recommended in investment funds and asset management
• David A. Chaikof—repeatedly recommended in corporate finance and securities 
• Matthew Cockburn—repeatedly recommended in M&A
• Marlene J. Davidge—most frequently recommended in corporate finance and securities and in investment funds and asset management; repeatedly recommended in corporate commercial law
• Adam E. Delean—consistently recommended in banking and financial services law 
• Stephen J. Donovan—consistently recommended in private equity 
• Michael K. Feldman—consistently recommended in asset securitization, and in asset/equipment finance and leasing 
• Sharon C. Geraghty—consistently recommended in corporate commercial law and in private equity; repeatedly recommended in corporate finance and securities and in M&A
• Krista F. Hill—repeatedly recommended in energy (electricity) 
• Heather G. Hisey—repeatedly recommended in charities law, and in estate and personal tax planning/estate litigation 
• R. Jay Holsten—repeatedly recommended in competition law
• Patricia D. S. Jackson—consistently recommended in litigation: corporate commercial and class actions; repeatedly recommended in litigation: defamation and media, energy (electricity), energy (oil and gas) and in litigation—public law
• Peter E. S. Jewett—most frequently recommended in corporate commercial law, corporate finance and securities and in M&A 
• Blair W. Keefe—most frequently recommended in banking and financial services law and in financial institutions regulation—Ontario
• Patricia A. Koval—most frequently recommended in corporate finance and securities, and in investment funds and asset management; repeatedly recommended in corporate commercial law and in M&A
• John B. Laskin—most frequently recommended in litigation: directors' and officers' liability, corporate commercial and public law; repeatedly recommended in litigation: securities and class actions
• Barry Leon—most frequently recommended in international commercial arbitration
• Wendy M. Matheson—repeatedly recommended in litigation—corporate commercial 
• Conor D. M. McCourt—consistently recommended in intellectual property; repeatedly recommended in biotechnology 
• Eileen M. McMahon—most frequently recommended in biotechnology; repeatedly recommended in intellectual property
• Michael A. Penny—consistently recommended in energy (oil and gas); repeatedly recommended in energy (electricity)
• Cheryl V. Reicin—repeatedly recommended in biotechnology
• James D. Scarlett—most frequently recommended in income funds, corporate commercial law, corporate finance and securities and in M&A 
• Andrew M. Shaughnessy—repeatedly recommended in litigation—intellectual property  
• David A. Steele—repeatedly recommended in estate and personal tax planning/estate litigation
• Gabor G. S. Takach—consistently recommended in computer and IT law; most frequently recommended in technology 
• John J. Tobin—repeatedly recommended in asset/equipment finance and leasing
• James C. Tory—consistently recommended in litigation: directors' and officers' liability, corporate commercial and securities
• John Unger—repeatedly recommended in corporate tax 
• Jonathan B. Weisz—repeatedly recommended in project finance
• James W. Welkoff—repeatedly recommended in corporate tax 
• Joel Wiesenfeld—consistently recommended in litigation—securities 

Further details are found on Lexpert.ca.