Natalie V. Kolos

Patrick O’Kelly is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. His practice is primarily focused in the area of professional negligence, product liability and securities with a special emphasis in the area of auditors’ negligence and defending class actions.

Thomas Gertner is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law. Thomas, who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Thomas is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Vanessa Grant practises business law in our Toronto office. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance for public and private corporations, including private equity and venture capital. She also provides ongoing general corporate and commercial legal advice to a number of clients.She has worked with several national and international clients in various industries, with a particular focus on technology companies, life sciences companies, and RE...

Kathryn Kirkpatrick is Counsel and an experienced litigator in the Construction and Infrastructure and Insurance Practice Groups at Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP. Her extensive experience includes representing large institutional, private and municipal clients in diverse civil proceedings. She has represented clients in claims involving large multi-party construction projects; malicious prosecution, false arrest, negligent investigation, assault and breach of Charter rights; negligent...

Andreea Muth has a general corporate and commercial law practice, with a focus on business owner estate planning. She advises business owners and private corporations on the structure and implementation of corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, as well as comprehensive business succession planning. This includes will and estate planning, and the use of family trusts. Combining her unique blend of corporate/commercial law and estate planning experience, Andreea sets up structures...

Nationally known for his expertise in real estate property matters, Brett Tkatch numbers Canada’s top commercial and residential development companies and commercial institutional lenders among his clients. He is a partner in Blaney McMurtry LLP, practising in the firm's real estate group and is the Head of the Real Estate Practice Group. "I take great pride in knowing some of the people looking at my biography no doubt have visited some of the major development sites I have had the opp...

Chris is a partner who practises primarily in the areas of banking, secured transactions, corporate and commercial, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and commercial real estate law. Chris assists both lenders and borrowers in connection with syndicated and non-syndicated, secured and non-secured, domestic and cross-border and revolving and term credit facilities. Chris also assists both lenders and borrowers with respect to asset-based credit facilities and subordinate/convertible debt ...

Kelly Doctor has the smarts to see all possible solutions, and the heart and practical intuition to reach the best ones for her clients. She’s driven to fight for the rights of people experiencing disadvantage and discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere in their lives. While she loves to litigate, she also works quietly behind the scenes to advise clients on how to handle difficult situations in the workplace and negotiate resolutions to them. A former Supreme Court of Canada law ...

Louisa Pontrelli practises intellectual property law with an emphasis on pharmaceutical patent litigation. She has particular experience in matters affecting the innovative pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, including infringement and validity opinions, subsequent entry biologics, infringement and impeachment actions and proceedings under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations. During her graduate studies she investigated the molecular and cellular biology of lipopr...

Laurie is a partner in our Family Law Group, acting in disputes involving high incomes and significant property. Her practice also includes mediation and arbitration. She appears in Courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Between 2010 and 2012, Laurie was elected as the 63rd Treasurer (President) of The Law Society of Upper Canada, the regulator governing all lawyers and paralegals in Ontario. She was only the third woman since the Law Society was founded in 1797 to hold this office. T...