Toronto

Toronto is the home of a vibrant capital market and a globally recognized financial services sector. As an unquestioned legal market leader in many areas including capital markets transactions, high stakes litigation and tax, we serve global firms, emerging companies and entrepreneurs across all industries and on all sizes of transactions.

Our Toronto office comprises approximately 280 lawyers and is a gateway for domestic, U.S. and international clients to our Canadian and U.S./cross-border capabilities across the Firm. We offer a deep bench in business law – mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, tax, competition/antitrust, banking and financial services, insolvency and restructuring, litigation, pensions and benefits and in many other specialty areas of practice.

Select industry accolades from clients, peers and third-party research include:

  • The Best Lawyers in Canada (2010) where Osler is ranked first overall for law firms in Toronto and receives first place ranking in Competition/Antitrust Law, Construction Law, Employee Benefits Law, Franchise Law, Health Care Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax Law and Technology Law practices.
  • The 2010 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada ranks Osler’s Toronto office as the leader for Tax.

Areas of Expertise

At Osler, we’ve chosen to excel in those areas of legal expertise most essential to our clients’ success – and to inform that expertise with in-depth understanding of each client’s business.

Practice Areas:

  • Climate Change and Emissions Trading
  • Competition/Antitrust
  • Corporate Finance and Securities
  • Corporate Governance
  • Employment and Labour Law
  • Environmental, Regulatory and Aboriginal
  • Executive Compensation
  • Income Funds and REITs
  • Insolvency and Restructuring
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Trade
  • Litigation
  • Marketing and Distribution
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Municipal
  • Outsourcing
  • Pensions and Benefits
  • Privacy
  • Project Finance
  • Public - Private Partnerships / Alternative Financing and Procurement
  • Regulatory Investigations
  • Research
  • Taxation
  • Trusts and Estates
  • U.S./Cross-Border

Industry Expertise

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Construction
  • Energy (Electrical Power)
  • Franchise
  • Health
  • Infrastructure
  • Investment Funds and Asset Management
  • Life Sciences
  • Mining
  • Private Equity
  • Real Estate
  • Technology