Transportation: Rail & Road
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 2
About
Provided by Dentons Canada LLP
Whether you are new to Canada or looking to expand, our multi-disciplinary team offers a national and international reach and is fully integrated to support every aspect of your needs. Benefit from our depth and breadth of experience in multi-modal transportation, logistics and freight forwarding, and our strengths in environmental law, public policy, labour relations, Aboriginal rights, insurance, dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, tax, financing, licensing, project development, structuring and governance, commercial agreements and real estate and land assembly, as well as our familiarity with governments and their agencies.
Areas of transportation support:
- Concessions and government franchises
- Freight and logistic
- Government and transportation
- Transportation competition and antitrust
- Transportation finance
- Transportation infrastructure and PPP
- Transportation litigations and dispute resolution
- Transportation manufacture and supply
- Transportation procurement
- Transportation regulation
- Transportation technology and IT
- Transportation transactions
The Dentons transportation team will help you to foresee and manage potential risks while accessing and taking advantage of opportunities in the transportation of freight and passengers by air, bus, rail, ship and truck.
Chambers Review
Dentons is a large international firm with a well-regarded surface transportation practice in Canada and extensive experience acting for rail and road clients. The team regularly represents major rail providers and shippers as well as local authorities in contentious and non-contentious matters. It offers knowledge in a range of regulatory matters, such as rail operating agreements and distribution arrangements. Clients benefit from its expertise in related areas such as infrastructure.
Kathryn McCulloch and Michael Ledgett, both in Toronto, are key contacts for clients in the areas of aviation and rail respectively.
Work Highlights
- Dentons advised the Vancouver Fraser Port Authorityon the procurement aspects of the CAD454 million Centerm Expansion Project and South Shore Access Project.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Dentons truly is a one-stop shop that is very customer service oriented. Even when we require more resources to meet short deadlines, they make it all seem flawless."
"Dentons truly is a one-stop shop that is very customer service oriented. Even when we require more resources to meet short deadlines, they make it all seem flawless."