James C. Orr

Alex's practice focuses on Canadian tax issues that affect multinationals with operations in Canada, including international tax planning (inbound structuring, transfer pricing, foreign affiliate taxation, cross-border employee mobility, withholding tax, tax treaty issues), M&A, reorganizations and financings. Alex is both a lawyer and a Chartered Professional Accountant. Alex advises clients in the digital economy, infrastructure, resource, healthcare, consumer product and retail spaces....

Nader R. Hasan is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Aboriginal Law / Indigenous Practice, Administrative and Public Law, Appellate Practice, Criminal Defence and Privacy and Data Security Law. Nader R., who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2018. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Nader R. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Lesley Mercer is counsel practising in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation including class actions, product liability, professional negligence, shareholder disputes and restructuring and insolvency proceedings. Lesley has significant experience defending corporations in complex class and non-class proceedings involving product liability, consumer protection and securities law. Lesley has appeared at both the trial and appellate ...

Biography David Gadsden represents global clients in complex commercial disputes. He is the Chair of Baker McKenzie's Canadian Class Actions Group and is known for his sound advice on commercial class actions, competition and antitrust matters, arbitration, fraud cases and product liability matters. Clients value David's pragmatic and determined approach to disputes and have described him as "absolutely terrific at bringing across the finish line the most complex and multidimensional issues"....

For two decades, clients have relied on Chad Kopach to help them achieve practical and timely litigation solutions. Chad is Certified as a Specialist in Construction Law by the Law Society of Ontario, and is a Certified Adjudicator under Ontario’s Construction Act . Chad’s strategic thinking helps his clients navigate the pitfalls of construction dispute, and leverage the special lien, trust and prompt payment remedies available to the construction industry. His clients appreciate...

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...

Dan is a skilled advocate with a reputation for consummate professionalism. Known as a leading expert on Canadian limitations law, Dan has co-authored The Law of Limitations, a legal textbook published by LexisNexis and cited extensively by the courts; Halsbury's Limitation of Actions (2017 Reissue), also published by LexisNexis; and Under the Limit, a blog reporting on developments in Canadian limitations jurisprudence (which is not quite as dry as it sounds). Dan speaks and writes frequentl...

Principal of Law Works PC (Ontario)/Law Works LC (British Columbia), a boutique law firm focusing on the resolution of franchise and commercial disputes through litigation, mediation and arbitration. Ben acts as counsel in franchise and commercial disputes in Ontario, British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada; writes frequently about franchise disputes and commercial arbitration; served as founder and chair of the Joint Subcommittee of Franchising of the Ontario Bar Association (predecessor to...

Douglas N. Deeth is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Intellectual Property Law. Douglas N., who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2006. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Douglas N. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Lucas E. Lung is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Administrative and Public Law, Appellate Practice and Corporate and Commercial Litigation. Lucas E., who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2020. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Lucas E. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.