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Scott Beeser is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Intellectual Property Law. Scott, 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 Scott is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jenny P. Mboutsiadis is a seasoned tax litigator with over two decades of trial experience as lead counsel. She has extensive successful experience arguing tax cases in the Tax Court of Canada, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Federal Court, and the Federal Court of Appeal. Jenny provides clients with exceptional knowledge on resolving tax disputes with Canadian tax authorities, from the start of a tax audit to trial. Her practice focuses on corporate tax matters, including transfer...

John Lee is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Groups. His practice focuses on corporate and securities law with a particular emphasis on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, strategic transactions such as joint ventures, partnerships, and significant investments. He also regularly advises clients on corporate governance, securities law compliance, as well as general corporate and commercial matters. He has extensive experience ...

David Tang practises both Municipal/Land Development & Planning Law and Charities & Not-For-Profit Law; often where those two disciplines intersect. David provides strategy and advice to landowners and appears regularly before the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, the Assessment Review Board, and the courts. He proactively advises on property taxation matters, with a particular emphasis on exemptions and other strategies for charities. He deals regularly with provincial and municipal go...

Lynne O'Brien is a litigation lawyer based in Toronto. She has a broad commercial litigation and advisory practice in the areas of financial services, corporate governance, insolvency, securities regulation and fraud.Lynne also practises estate litigation, providing advice on a range of issues, including will challenges, dependent support and guardian applications, contested passing of accounts, estate administration and disputes involving trusts.She frequently conducts investigations for cli...

George is a partner with Thomson Rogers and his practice is devoted to litigation with an emphasis on matrimonial litigation and matters involving commercial disputes. George has co-authored a number of articles for use in continuing legal education seminars and is a regular contributor speaker at continuing legal education seminars having spoken at seminars conducted by the Law Society of Ontario, the National Judicial Institute, Osgoode Professional Development and the Advocates’ Soci...

Ben first joined Oatley Vigmond as a summer student in May 2013. He returned to Oatley Vigmond as an articling student, and was later welcomed to the firm as an associate lawyer following his call to the bar in June 2015. Ben holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Ottawa, a Master of Arts (M.A.) in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton University, and an Honours B.A. in Criminology from York University. Ben enjoys the co...

Marijo Coates is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Intellectual Property Law. Marijo, 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 Marijo is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Megan Marrie is recognized by Best Lawyers in Construction Law. Megan, who practices law at Shibley Righton LLP in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Megan is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area. Megan attended Dalhousie University, earning a Bachler of Commerce (Co-op), with Distinction, and worked in marketing for a geographic information sys...

Dee Rajpal is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Securities Groups, and a member of the Management Committee in the Toronto office. His practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance, restructuring, proxy disputes and compliance matters with an emphasis on cross-border and international transactions. Dee has over 25 years’ experience in counseling senior management and the boards of directors of leading publi...