Miranda Spence

Catherine is a Partner in the Construction and Infrastructure Practice Group at Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP. She is a passionate advocate, who focuses on providing business-critical strategic counsel to clients facing complex legal challenges, particularly in complex commercial disputes and construction and infrastructure disputes. Catherine is dedicated to providing excellent client service, and ensuring the advancement of her clients’ interests with a strategic focus on achi...

Ben Kates is a litigation partner in the Regulated Professions and Industries Practice Group at WeirFoulds LLP. Ben’s practice straddles administrative and civil law. Ben provides advice and counsel to a number of industry regulators, and also practises civil litigation for public and private sector clients. Ben is experienced in civil, corporate-commercial, and administrative matters, having handled corporate and contractual disputes, as well as professional liability, media and defama...

As a renowned litigator, Avra has extensive trial and appellate experience at the highest levels of the Ontario Courts including the Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal. Avra lectures frequently on family law topics for the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Ontario Bar Association, and is the author of numerous family law articles. As a mediator and arbitrator, Avra provides spouses and their counsel with firm, fair outcomes for all parties involved. Avra has intimate understa...

Nicole Sigouin practises in all areas of banking and finance. She has extensive experience acting for financial institutions and borrowers in connection with domestic and cross-border debt financing transactions, asset-based lending, project finance, acquisition financings and complex financial restructurings (including the ground-breaking $32 billion restructuring of third-party asset-backed commercial paper in Canada). She is a member of our special situations team, applying her experience ...

Nancy Eastman’s practice is focused on securities, mergers and acquisitions and global mining. Working predominantly on mining issues, Nancy advises clients on royalty and stream financings, domestic and cross-border corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and regulatory compliance. Assisting clients with a variety of securities matters, Nancy has worked with both private and public companies on debt and equity financings, as well as on initial public offerings, reverse take-overs, ...

The stakes in Family Law cases don’t get much higher: it takes a special lawyer to consistently win results at the highest level in Family Law. Jim Edney has been that kind of a lawyer for 30 years, earning him recognition as a Certified Specialist in Family Law by The Law Society of Ontario. Vision Praised by clients for his ability to “put things in perspective” and described by them as “incredibly diligent, fair and intelligent”, Jim advises on complex Family ...

James (Jim) Klotz is in the Business Law Group of Miller Thomson LLP in Toronto and practices in the firm’s International Business Transactions area. Jim served as Secretary-General of the International Bar Association for a two year term ending in 2018, and thereafter served as IBA Vice-President until 03/2020. From 2011-2014, he was a member of the Independent Governance Committee of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), serving as one of its five...

Stacey Stevens’ practice is entirely devoted to helping people with serious personal injuries. Her practice is restricted to ensuring people injured in car accidents, motorcycle accidents, boating accidents, slip/trip and falls, have been denied accident benefits or disability insurance benefits, as well as victims of sexual assault, receive full compensation. Stacey joined Thomson Rogers in 2006 after gaining valuable experience working for ten years with lawyers and their clients in t...

Shanti has focused on building an insurance defence practice in property and product liability loss, including subrogation work. She has worked extensively on files involving condominium construction. Shanti consistently represents Long Term Care Facilities and nurses providing care to patients at home. She has acted as an Appraiser under s.128 of the Insurance Act. She has extensive experience with professional negligence and enjoys BI tort work. Since being called to the bar, she was worked...

James Harnum provides counsel to unions, employees and boards of trustees on all aspects of pension and benefits administration and litigation. A significant part of his practice involves assisting employees of insolvent companies in recovering amounts owed to them, whether for wages, severance pay or post-retirement benefits. James also has experience in litigation involving the intersection of constitutional rights with labour and pension law. He has appeared before all levels of court in O...