Christine Wadsworth

As the firm’s Managing Partner, Shawn combines his expert negotiation skills with a proven ability to solve problems and build strong teams to ensure that his clients and colleagues alike receive strong leadership and results. Broad experience leads to creative solutions Shawn Wolfson is a dealmaker’s real estate lawyer. Clients who want to move projects forward count on his ability to see past tactics and get deals done. Shawn’s practical, results-oriented approach has earn...

Bruce Blain’s broad business practice has included advice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, and debt and equity financings, as well as partnership, joint venture and shareholder arrangements. Bruce has been involved in the purchase and sale of businesses across a wide range of industries, including steel making, manufacturing, high tech, financial services and consulting and professional services. His experience also includes public markets financing, reorganizatio...

David has a wide-ranging civil litigation practice covering almost all aspects of insurance related litigation, including municipal liability, occupiers’ liability, commercial host, sports & entertainment facilities, education law and events related liability as well as professional negligence and automobile claims litigation. He is often called upon to advise casualty and property insurers along with policy holders and self insured entities on insurance related issues, including im...

Andrea White is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Real Estate Law. Andrea, who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2014. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Andrea is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

As the senior partner in his firm, Paul is a leading constitutional, labour and administrative law lawyer, arguing significant cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Courts of Ontario, and labour and administrative tribunals. Paul was appointed by Associate Chief Justice Dennis O'Connor to act as lead commission counsel to the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. Previously, Paul acted as lead commission counsel in the Walkerton Inquir...

David Bannon is a labour and employment lawyer in Hicks Morley’s Toronto office. He represents employers in the private sector in a variety of litigation forums. David is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Labour and Employment Law and is a board member of the Law Society of Ontario Certified Specialist Program. David regularly appears before the Ontario Labour Relations Board and private arbitrators, Provincial Offences Court defending against Occupational Healt...

Alexander is a partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Alexander has experience in a broad range of complex commercial litigation matters, including with respect to professional liability for lawyers, real estate agents, title insurance, contractual disputes, and shareholder disputes. Alexander has successfully represented clients at various levels of court in Ontario. Representative Work CMT et al. v. Government of PEI et al., 2019 PESC 40 Estate of Robe...

David practises in the areas of Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance. He has been named by Best Lawyers® as one of the best lawyers in Canada in the practice area of Corporate Law. He handles all manner of M&A , Private Equity and Debt transactions with an emphasis on: private company sales and divestitures; middle-market company mergers and acquisitions; and the Canadian component of institutional fund purchases and divestitures. David has also developed an a...

Rick Aucoin is a partner at Beard Winter LLP with a wide range of litigation experience before all courts and tribunals. The focus of his practice is civil litigation with an emphasis on property, casualty, tort and negligence cases, commercial insurance, product liability and coverage issues. Rick’s practice also focuses on professional errors with a recent appointment to the preferred counsel list for the defence of lawyers in their professional capacity. Rick has been providing litig...

Conner Harris is a partner at Rayman Harris LLP carrying on a broad-based civil litigation and administrative law practice with a focus on municipal and planning matters, property-related disputes, expropriations, and complex commercial litigation. Conner is an advocate who has successfully acted as lead counsel in trials and hearings before all levels of Court in Ontario, assisted in matters before the Supreme Court of Canada, and has appeared before a wide range of administrative tribunals,...