Catherine "Cathy" Beagan Flood

Founding Partner and Mediator with Kelly D. Jordan Family Law Firm in Toronto, Ontario. Practises in the areas of family and fertility law, wills and estates. Certified as a Specialist in Family Law by the LSUC. Particular expertise in family law issues pertaining to the gay and lesbian community and assisted human reproduction. Fellow of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys. Co-counsel on Baker v. Francis (1999) and Miglin v. Miglin (2002) before the Supreme Cou...

Jeffrey Alpert is a partner in the Banking & Financial Services Group at Torkin Manes LLP in Toronto, Ontario. His practice focuses on banking and finance law, with an emphasis on representing banks, financial institutions, and other lenders in bilateral and syndicated loan transactions. With more than four decades of experience, Jeffrey advises institutional and private lenders, as well as borrowers, on a broad range of commercial financing matters. His work includes commercial loan tran...

Dan Rabinowitz is one of Miller Thomson’s leading insurance litigation and sports law partners. Dan represents insurers and self-insured entities with respect to general liability, product liability, professional negligence, and motor vehicle claims. He also specializes in municipal law. Throughout his career, he has defended road liability and general liability claims for a number of municipalities as well as the province of Ontario. In his sports practice, Dan represents a number of N...

Jessica Brown is a partner at Boulby Weinberg LLP , advising clients across all aspects of family law, with particular emphasis on complex financial matters, high-net-worth property division, support obligations, parenting disputes, and domestic contracts. A seasoned appellate and trial advocate, Jessica has represented clients at every level of court in Ontario—including the Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Justice, the Divisional Court, and the Court of Appeal for Ontar...

Kobi Bessin is a partner in the Corporate/Commercial Group at Torkin Manes LLP and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Based in Toronto, Ontario, he maintains a Corporate Law practice focused on corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity transactions and cross-border deals. Kobi advises a broad range of clients across multiple industries, including entrepreneurs, owner-managers, developers, manufacturers, distributors...

Ian Mondrow is a partner in Gowling WLG's Toronto office practising in the area of energy regulation and policy as a member of the Energy Sector Group. Ian has been working in energy for more than 30 years, much of that in the private practice of law, but including four years in a senior management and policy role as vice-president, Government & Regulatory Affairs, at a large integrated competitive energy services company where he engaged heavily in matters of market design and energy pol...

Jean-Marc is a partner at Sotos LLP. He is valued by our franchise clients for his expertise in commercial litigation particularly in competition, privacy and cross-border matters, and for his extensive experience in multi-party and class proceedings. Jean-Marc advises clients across our industry sectors. Jean-Marc taught appellate advocacy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., and acts pro bono to argue cases on behalf of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association including at the Sup...

Joel Guberman is an immigration lawyer with more than 40 years of experience advising individuals, businesses, and organizations on Canadian and U.S. immigration matters. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Joel is certified by the Law Society of Ontario in Immigration and Citizenship Law. Before joining Guberman Appleby Immigration Lawyers , he was a founding partner of a Toronto immigration law firm and later served as Chair of the Immigration practice at one of the Big Four accounting firms. Joel r...

Stephen Krashinsky is a labour lawyer in Goldblatt Partners' Toronto office. His practice focuses on grievance arbitration and Ontario Labour Relations Board matters. Born and raised in Montreal, Stephen attended the University of Toronto, where he achieved both his bachelor of arts and his law degree in five years. He was called to the bar in 1981. Stephen’s legal career protecting the rights of workers began during the summer following his second year of law school, when he attended t...

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...