Colin Johnston

Renée Pelletier is a Partner at OKT. Her practice focuses on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights litigation and negotiation. Renée has extensive experience litigating Aboriginal title claims: having served as lead counsel both in Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s Aboriginal title claim to their water territory and currently in the Wolastoqey Nation’s Aboriginal title claim to their territory in New Brunswick. She has also developed significant experience in claims and legal matters ...

Rahul Sharma advises international and Canadian clients on a variety of tax, trust, and estate planning matters. He is particularly experienced with cross-border and international trust and estate matters, as well as matters involving offshore or non-resident trusts with ties to Canada. Rahul also counsels high net-worth individuals, as well as corporations, trusts and estates on Canadian income tax matters, including succession planning for closely held businesses. As part of his practice, R...

Melissa is a partner in our commercial leasing department and has dedicated her career to representing commercial landlords and tenants in a variety of commercial leasing matters. She has expertise in managing commercial lease transactions for all types of properties, including office, retail, industrial and mixed-use. Melissa's practice includes the interpretation of commercial leases and the coordination of major projects, including multi-location deals and due diligence on acquisitions. He...

Iris is a partner in Fasken’s Real Estate Practice Group, with extensive experience in the acquisition, disposition, financing, leasing, construction and development of commercial, industrial, data centre, multi-unit residential, retail, office and hospitality properties. Her practice focuses on REITs, joint ventures, co-ownerships and limited partnerships. With over 25 years of broad experience in commercial real estate law and a diverse practice encompassing all aspects of real estate...

Andy is a senior member of the firm’s finance practice. His practice is focused on asset-based financing transactions . He has extensive experience acting for funders and sellers in connection with private securitization transactions. He is also actively involved in the structuring, documentation and negotiation of financing transactions for lessors and lenders in the field of asset/equipment finance and leasing. He began his career in this industry by working with a major Canadian char...

Andrew Valentine's charities and non-profit law practice focuses on providing advice to organizations on issues including gift planning, incorporation and registration, ongoing compliance matters, and audits. Andrew also deals extensively with non-profit corporate governance and corporate structuring issues, advising on corporate restructuring, directors' duties and liabilities, governance best practices, bylaws and policies, and membership disputes. Andrew also has expertise in social enterp...

Matthew Tevlin is a partner at Torkin Manes LLP in Toronto, Ontario, and Chair of the firm’s M&A and Private Equity & Venture Capital Groups. His practice focuses on Corporate Law and Venture Capital Law, with additional experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, cross-border matters, and corporate finance . Matt advises private equity firms, venture capital funds, merchant banks, founders, and established businesses across a range of industries, includ...

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...

Adam Kline is a partner in the Business Law Group at Miller Thomson in the Toronto office. His practice is focused primarily in the areas of securities, corporate finance, public and private mergers and acquisitions. Adam has considerable experience advising both bidders and targets in hostile and negotiated merger & acquisition transactions. He has advised underwriters and issuers on numerous financing transactions, including IPOs, bought deals, private placements and rights offerings, i...

A skilled advocate who appreciates that there is no ‘one size fits all’ resolution to a family law case, Joseph prides himself on taking a tailored approach to serving his clients to ensure that their rights and interests are protected. Joseph is passionate about providing his clients with timely, efficient and cost-effective representation, with an emphasis on effective negotiation. Clients appreciate his keen attention to detail, pragmatic approach, and ability to ‘drill d...