Stikeman Elliott LLP

Firm Details:

Chair: Peter Castiel

Managing Partners: John Ciardullo (Toronto); Sophie Lamonde (Montréal); Chrysten E. Perry (Calgary); Richard J. Jackson (Vancouver); Jamie Koumanakos (New York); Sherry Roth (London)

Number of partners: 207

Number of lawyers: 489

Firm Overview:

Stikeman Elliott is a global leader in Canadian business law, offering creative solutions to clients across Canada and around the world. The firm provides the highest quality counsel, decisive advice, and workable solutions through offices located in Montréal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, and London. Stikeman Elliott places the client experience at the heart of what they do, from the first contact to well beyond delivering on their mandates – making their goals the firm's goals, their challenges the firm's challenges. The firm supports every client relationship by selecting the right teams, tools and processes to match their unique needs and business objectives. On every file, the firm's lawyers leverage the firm’s cutting-edge technology tools and resources to focus on delivering creative and tailor-made solutions.

Main Areas of Practice:

Mergers & Acquisitions:

The firm’s award-winning practice is perennially among the most active in Canada. Stikeman Elliott lawyers are internationally recognised for their work in high profile cross-border transactions involving public and private companies, private equity firms and venture capital investors.

Capital Markets:

The firm is top-ranked in corporate finance and represents underwriters, issuers and other capital markets players. The team assists domestic and international clients that participate in Canadian markets or are looking to do business in Canada.

Banking & Lending:

The firm has a broad range of experience in conventional bank lending, syndications and similar arrangements. Stikeman Elliott acts for domestic and international lenders and borrowers on a broad range of financings.

Restructuring & Insolvency:

Stikeman Elliott acts for borrowers, lenders, accounting firms, trustees, creditors and shareholders in some of Canada’s most challenging public and private corporate reorganisations and restructurings.

Global Financial Services:

The multidisciplinary financial products and services practice delivers legal expertise in structured finance, investment funds, asset management and regulatory matters affecting financial institutions, in both Canadian and cross-border markets.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution:

The firm’s award-winning group is known for its work in class actions, securities, insolvency, tax, product liability, professional and commercial negligence, insurance and real estate, as well as environmental, competition and employment law.

Competition & Foreign Investment:

The firm is internationally recognised for delivering ground-breaking results to clients pursuing ambitious business combinations in the most heavily scrutinised Canadian and global industries.

Energy (Power):

The firm’s national power practice supports clients through all phases of projects and transactions, in all the sub-sectors of the industry across all Canadian jurisdictions on domestic and cross-border transactions.

Energy (Oil & Gas):

The firm leverages local Calgary-based expertise and international relationships to offer providers, developers, distributors and regulatory bodies the support needed in the upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas sectors.

Real Estate:

The firm acts for the industry’s most sophisticated players on their most complex projects. Stikeman Elliott has long-standing relationships with key real estate developers and investors who have transformed Canadian real estate investment.

Projects & Infrastructure:

The firm works on many of the most challenging and innovative projects in Canada and internationally. Stikeman Elliott's full-service practice advises on all aspects of project structuring and finance and ensures legal support for the complete lifecycle of projects, including initial permits, regulatory approvals, and contract negotiations.

Insurance & Reinsurance:

Stikeman Elliott offers clients in the insurance sector an impressive combination of corporate, regulatory, transactional and coverage expertise, coupled with the firm’s top-tier litigation and dispute resolution practice.

International Work:

The firm has had a presence in London since 1969, and in New York and the Asia-Pacific region since the early 1980s. Stikeman Elliott regularly represents clients with respect to their business interests in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and continental Europe, as well as individuals and companies from those regions looking to do business in or with Canada.

www.stikeman.com

Tel: +1 877 973 5500

Fax: +1 416 947 0866

Email: [email protected]

Offices

TORONTO:

5300 Commerce Court West, 199 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5L 1B9

Tel: +1 416 869 5500

Email: [email protected]

MONTRÉAL:

1155 René-Lévesque Blvd. West, 41st Floor, Montréal, QC H3B 3V2

Tel: +1 514 397 3000

Email: [email protected]