Piper Morley

Shanon is a governance and commercial lawyer with a primary focus on the health industry. With more than 40 years of experience, Shanon advises clients in private, not-for-profit and charitable organizations. Shanon helps clients understand the health regulatory landscape in Ontario and Canada, and the applicable laws in specific transactions. She advises boards of charities and not-for-profit organizations, foundations and other regulated entities with respect to their governance and corpora...

Claire Gowdy is a Business Law partner in the Firm’s Toronto office with a practice focused on private mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, complex commercial transactions and general corporate matters. Claire advises domestic and foreign private equity investors and companies on their transactions in a broad range of industries including mining and natural resources, technology, industrials and healthcare. With a strong track record of assisting clients with investment oppo...

Gavin Finlayson is an experienced commercial litigator who solves complex problems for his clients, particularly in the insolvency and restructuring area. Gavin provides strategic advice to court officers, creditors, and debtors, including distressed debt investors, accounting firms, insurers, and companies in a variety of sectors, including cannabis, cryptocurrency, broadband, therapeutic psychedelic and biotech companies. Gavin has been counsel before all levels of Canadian courts as well a...

Susan Philpott understands how important pensions and benefits are to the well-being of workers and their families. She has dedicated her career to it. Trade unions across Canada rely on Sue to help them expand workplace pension and benefits coverage, bargain new pensions and benefits arrangements, and navigate through employer insolvencies and restructuring. She also helps pension plan trustees meet their legal obligations to plan members by providing first-rate strategic, governance, and le...

Gerald Chan is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Administrative and Public Law, Appellate Practice, Criminal Defence and Privacy and Data Security Law. Gerald, who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2017. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Gerald is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

David Amato focuses on corporate finance and is co-chair of our asset-based lending team. As counsel to various foreign and domestic financial institutions, insurance companies, private equity funds and other credit providers, he has significant experience in sophisticated debt financing transactions and has led numerous multijurisdictional, international and domestic debt financing mandates (including cash-flow, asset based, acquisition, leveraged buyout, debtor-in possession, mine and proje...

Catherine Dennis Brooks is a Partner and Registered Canadian Trademark Agent with a practice in intellectual property law and marketing and advertising law. She specializes in all aspects of trademark and copyright law. Catherine assists clients in managing their domestic and international trademark portfolios through clearance and prosecution, licensing, opposition and cancellation proceedings, and enforcement strategy. She also has considerable experience in transactional work involving int...

Dylan Chochla is a partner in the Toronto Insolvency and Restructuring group. His practice focuses on corporate bankruptcy, insolvency and restructurings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, and under provincial and federal corporate statutes. He regularly represents clients in court and has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Dylan is involved in a wide vari...

Dedicated to responsive and proactive client service, Maria provides common sense advice in all matters of workplace law and workplace disputes. Collaboration and understanding are hallmarks of Maria’s approach to assisting clients effectively navigate legal challenges. Clients feel that Maria is a member of their team. She knows their businesses, understands their goals and works efficiently to find solutions. Maria’s employment, human rights and labour practice is broad and wide...

Bryan has been certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Family Law. He is a past instructor in the Family Law Section of the Bar Admission course and has contributed to numerous seminars, lectures, and written articles for the Law Society, Osgoode Hall Law School Continuing Education, the Canadian Institute, and the Ontario Bar Association in the field of family law. Bryan's practice is restricted to family law, including negotiation and preparation of complex financial...