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Koker Christensen is Co-Leader of Fasken’s Financial Services Group and has over 20 years’ experience helping financial services businesses achieve their business objectives. His practice focusses on corporate, transactional, and regulatory matters for insurers, insurance intermediaries, banks, credit unions, payments businesses, and fintechs. Koker’s areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions (M&A), reinsurance transactions, corporate reorganizations, establish...

Devin Jarcaig is a partner at Mathers McHenry & Co, an executive advisory and employment law boutique located in downtown Toronto. Devin’s advisory practice focuses on providing strategic and legal advice to executives, directors, partners, shareholders, and other senior employees at key transition points in their careers. She regularly advises her clients on a wide range of complex employment law issues, including but not limited to employment terminations, written offers of employ...

David Alli is a labour and employment lawyer in Hicks Morley’s Toronto office. He advises employers on a variety of labour and employment issues, with a particular focus on wrongful dismissal defence litigation, human rights and accommodation matters. David also regularly works with clients to implement policies and strategies to maintain and develop healthy, respectful workplaces. As an experienced advocate, David has successfully represented clients in appellate proceedings, wrongful ...

From complicated tenure grievances to every day labour arbitration cases, from Charter litigation to collective agreement negotiations, Emma Phillips has a way of taking problems, breaking them down and making the answers seem simple. A significant part of Emma’s work is for university faculty associations and their members. She fights to ensure that the rights of faculty members and librarians are protected, and that Ontario students continue to enjoy high quality public post-secondary...

Angela is a fierce advocate for people affected by death and diminished mental capacity. Her professional peers voted to recognize her as one of Canada’s leading lawyers for estate litigation in Lexpert magazine. Her clients appreciate Angela’s ability to tell their story in a compelling way, and her “committed, supportive work” on their behalf. Her clients include trust companies, charities, government agencies, the Office of the Children’s Lawyer, individuals a...

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...

Rod Northey is a partner in the Toronto office of the firm and a member of the firm’s Environmental Law Group. He is in his 29th year of private practice and certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in environmental law. Rod's practice focuses on regulatory approvals, hearings and appeals across the full range of approval regimes involving the environment — including environmental assessment, land use, endangered species, cultural heritage, energy, resource ext...

Darrell Jarvis’s business law practice is focused on franchising, distribution, leasing and construction, with a focus on the retail and hospitality sectors. Darrell has extensive experience advising franchisors with respect to disclosure documents, franchise agreements, default enforcement, insolvent franchisees and the purchase and sale of franchised businesses. Darrell has extensive experience with respect to non-traditional franchises in highway facilities, hospital and educational ...

Lesley Kim practices in the areas of domestic and international tax law and has particular experience with outbound cross-border transactions involving foreign affiliates and non-resident trusts. She works extensively with public and private corporations and private equity groups undertaking mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, plan of arrangements, financings, including flow-through share offerings and IPOs, and other corporate reorganizations, including for estate planning purposes. Lesley ...

Ronald Davis is recognized by Best Lawyers for his work in Privacy and Data Security Law. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Ronald has been included in Best Lawyers since 2023 following a peer-review process within the legal profession. Ronald D. Davis serves as Senior Counsel at Diamond and Diamond Lawyers , bringing more than 40 years of litigation experience to the firm’s class actions and complex dispute matters. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1984, Ron has appeared before courts across Cana...