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Alistair Crawley is a founding partner of Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP and is one of Canada’s leading securities and corporate commercial litigation lawyers. Alistair’s practice includes all aspects of litigation and advice involving the capital markets and the securities industry, including investigations and enforcement hearings, contested corporate transactions and investment loss claims. Alistair has argued some of Canada’s most significant securities law cases, including t...

Timothy Chubb is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Banking & Finance Groups. His practice focuses on private equity and venture capital transactions, domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and fund formation activities. Tim’s clients include private equity and venture capital firms, waste management companies, media and telecom companies, technology companies and industrial and manufacturing companies. He is Chair of the Law Cler...

Lisa Goodfellow is a trusted adviser to employers on a wide range of employment and labour relations matters, including executive compensations and contracts, wrongful dismissal actions, human rights, workplace investigations, employment standards, certification applications, collective bargaining, unfair labour practice complaints, grievance arbitrations, injunctions, and protection of proprietary information. Lisa guides her clients through complex and ever-changing labour and employment la...

Sarah Boyle is a partner in the Family Law Group at Torkin Manes LLP in Toronto, Ontario. Her practice focuses on Family Law matters, including separation, divorce, parenting arrangements, decision-making responsibility, child and spousal support, property division, and marriage and cohabitation agreements. She regularly advises clients on complex and high-net-worth family law matters, including interjurisdictional issues and matters involving family-owned businesses and intergenerational wea...

Laurie Pawlitza is a partner in the Family Law Group at Torkin Manes LLP in Toronto, Ontario. She represents clients in a broad range of family law matters involving high incomes, substantial property issues, parenting disputes, support claims, and complex financial matters. Laurie works with clients to develop practical and strategic solutions tailored to their circumstances, whether through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation. She regularly appears before courts at all levels...

Executive Summary Paul Stoyan is the Chairman of Gardiner Roberts and practises business law with a special emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance. His varied experience makes him a valued corporate counsel to large and medium-size corporations of all types. He has worked extensively with various companies in the technology and financial sectors and has assisted such companies in various cross-border transactions, in going public and in establishing a...

M. Elena Hoffstein, FEA, has a practice focused in all areas of estate planning, family business succession planning, corporate reorganization both pre and post mortem planning. She also advises on cross border and international matters, will, trusts and marriage contracts. Elena is also a recognized leader in charity law advising both charities and donors on effective legislative, tax and regulatory matters and on tax effective charitable gifting. Elena frequently advises clients on family b...

Anthony (Tony) Baldanza practices general corporate/commercial law including negotiated transactions, competition law and foreign investment law. Tony previously served as Chair and Co-Chair of Fasken’s Competition, Marketing & Foreign Investment Group. In his competition law practice, Tony provides advice and representation in relation to mergers, cartels, abuse of dominance and other restrictive trade practices. In his foreign investment controls practice, Tony advises foreign-con...

Arie Odinocki is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Insurance Law. Arie practices law in Toronto, Ontario Best Lawyers has recognized Arie Odinocki since 2020. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Arie Odinocki is held by other lawyers.

A founding partner of the Firm, Chuck Loopstra has practised law in Toronto since 1969 and was appointed King's Counsel in 1985. Highly adept at navigating complex legal issues, Chuck has built an enviable reputation over the years as a public law expert and litigator. He regularly acts as counsel to private and public sector clients, including all levels of government. With many published papers to his credit, he frequently lectures at legal conferences. In addition to providing strategic di...