Cassels is proud to announce that 70 of our lawyers across 30+ practice areas have been named to the 2021 edition of Best Lawyers, the strongest showing ever for the firm.
We are also pleased to note that Larry Weinberg was named “Lawyer of the Year” for Franchise Law in Toronto. Only a single lawyer for each practice area in any given city is selected to be “Lawyer of the Year,” and we congratulate Larry on this notable achievement.
Newly ranked in Best Lawyers for 2021 are André Boivin (Mining), Jason M. Holowachuk (Construction), Alexandra Iliopoulos (Mergers & Acquisitions), Andrew M. Reback (Tax), David Redmond (Real Estate), Brigeeta C. Richdale (Securities), Jonathan Sherman (Cannabis), and Mark St. Cyr (Construction).
The lawyers included within this directory and their area of recognized practice are listed below (in alphabetical order):
- Chad Accursi – Natural Resources
- Matthew Alter – Construction; Public Procurement
- Jason Arbuck – Banking and Finance; Asset-Based Lending
- Frank Arnone – Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity; Securities
- Mark Bennett – Mining; Natural Resources
- Wendy Berman – Securities Litigation; Class Action Litigation; Director & Officer Liability
- André Boivin – Mining
- Mary Buttery – Insolvency & Financial Restructuring
- Gordon Chambers – Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mining; Securities
- Casey Chisick – Entertainment; Intellectual Property
- Nancy Choi – Mining
- John Christian – Securities
- Robert Cohen – Corporate and Commercial Litigation
- John Craig – Mining; Natural Resources
- Jane Dietrich – Insolvency and Financial Restructuring
- Brian Dominique – Aboriginal; Mining; Natural Resources
- Andrea Fitzgerald – Mining; Natural Resources
- Jonathan Fleisher – Asset-Based Lending; Banking and Finance; Equipment Finance
- Jay Goldman – Mining; Natural Resources; Securities
- Gordon Goodman – Banking and Finance
- Maxwell Gotlieb – Trusts and Estates
- Colin Ground – Mergers & Acquisitions
- Jennifer Hansen – Mining
- Alison Hayman – Intellectual Property
- Shane Hardy – Intellectual Property
- Peter Henein – Product Liability; Entertainment
- Chris Hersh – Competition/Antitrust
- Josef Hocher – Oil & Gas
- Jason Holowachuk – Construction
- Alexandra Iliopoulos – Mergers & Acquisitions
- Thomas Isaac – Aboriginal
- Lara Jackson – Securities Litigation; Corporate & Commercial Litigation; Class Action Litigation
- Ryan Jacobs – Insolvency and Financial Restructuring
- Bernice Karn – Information Technology
- Shayne Kukulowicz – Insolvency and Financial Restructuring
- Signe Leisk – Municipal
- Alison Manzer – Equipment Finance
- Cathy Mercer – Natural Resources
- Marc Mercier – Banking and Finance
- Cameron Mingay – Mining; Natural Resources
- Charles Newman – Banking and Finance
- Jeffrey Oliver – Insolvency and Financial Restructuring
- Michael Osborne – Competition/Antitrust
- Tim Pinos – Class Action Litigation
- Sheldon Plener – Sports
- Darrell Podowski – Mining
- Carla Potter – Equipment Finance
- Andrew Reback – Tax
- David Redford – Securities
- Charles Rich – Asset-Based Lending; Banking and Finance
- Brigeeta Richdale – Securities
- Douglas Richardson – Tax
- Frank Robinson – Franchise
- Derek Ronde – Franchise
- Jeffrey Roy – Natural Resources
- Andrew Salem – Real Estate
- Geoffrey Shaw – Franchise
- Jonathan Sherman – Cannabis
- Mark St. Cyr – Construction
- Paul Stein – Mining; Natural Resources
- Peter Sullivan – Banking and Finance
- Kristin Taylor – Labour and Employment
- Stéphane Teasdale – Franchise
- Keith Templeton – Oil & Gas; Energy
- Shauna Towriss – Real Estate
- Jennifer Traub – Mining; Natural Resources
- John Vettese – Mining; Natural Resources
- Larry Weinberg – Franchise (“Lawyer of the Year – Toronto”)
- Lance Williams – Insolvency and Financial Restructuring
- Michael Wunder – Banking and Finance
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honour.