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Who We Are

At Osler, we consider the practice of law to be, first and foremost, about our clients. We are unwavering in our commitment to exceptional client service. We are recognized for the breadth and depth of our legal expertise and experience and we apply that expertise and experience to help our clients succeed. We do this by understanding our clients’ objectives, by developing a strong grasp of their business and their industry, and by building trusted relationships with their people.

With close to 500 lawyers in Toronto, Montréal, Calgary, Ottawa and New York, we provide integrated legal services with specialists in virtually every area of business law. Osler advises many of Canada’s corporate leaders as well as U.S. and international clients with interests in Canada. Our breadth of legal expertise allows us to provide the kind of seamless, integrated service our clients require.

Our Expertise

We’ve chosen to excel in those areas of legal expertise most essential to our client’s success – and to inform that expertise with an in-depth understanding of each client’s business. Underpinning our major areas of expertise are highly specialized practice areas to serve the increasingly complex needs of our clients.  We invite you to learn about our full range of expertise

Awards & Recognition

Our strengths have been recognized by independent authorities in Canada and abroad. Year after year, Osler appears at or very near the top in all of the national and international surveys of clients and peers that rank law firms in Canada and other jurisdictions. While top third party rankings are gratifying, we know that what really matters is the confidence our clients continue to place in us.  There is no need for us to pat our own backs – You can read what others have to say.

We invite you to learn more about us – who we are, what we do, how many of the world’s leading organizations we’re privileged to call our clients, the resources we provide, what we think about emerging legal issues and much more – by exploring our site.


our people

D’Arcy Schieman

Associate, Taxation

D’Arcy Schieman

Toronto

tel: 416.862.5977


D'Arcy advises on both litigation and planning matters. A significant portion of his practice is focused on Canadian commodity taxes ...


Gillian Scott

Associate, Litigation

Gillian Scott

Toronto

tel: 416.862.4872


Gillian has a wide-ranging corporate-commercial litigation practice, with extensive experience in defending franchise litigation matters and acting for debtors and ...


Marc Wasserman

Partner, Insolvency & Restructuring

Marc Wasserman

Toronto

tel: 416.862.4908


Marc practises commercial law with an emphasis on corporate recapitalizations, reorganizations and restructurings and related acquisitions, divestitures, financings and governance ...


Kashif Zaman

Partner, Corporate

Kashif Zaman

Toronto

tel: 416.862.6804


Kashif is a partner in the firm’s Financial Institutions Group. Kashif regularly acts for a number of the major Canadian ...


Mary Abbott

Partner, Corporate

Mary Abbott

Toronto

tel: 416.862.4217


Mary’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and matters involving ...


Christina Beaudoin

Director, Student Programs

Christina Beaudoin

Toronto

tel:


Christina is the Director, Student Programs for Osler. Working closely with the Chair and members of the Students Committee, Christina ...


Alexander Cobb

Partner, Litigation

Alexander Cobb

Toronto

tel: 416.862.5964


Alexander has a commercial litigation practice with an emphasis on matters relating to securities and pensions. He advises issuers and ...


Rod Davidge

Partner, Real Estate

Rod Davidge

Toronto

tel: 416.862.4934


Rod’s practice involves a variety of commercial real estate matters including the acquisition, disposition and financing of commercial property, co-ownership ...


Michael De Lellis

Associate, Insolvency & Restructuring

Michael De Lellis

Toronto

tel: 416.862.5997


Michael focuses on insolvency and restructuring law with an emphasis on plans of arrangement under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, ...


Danna Donald

Associate, Banking & Financial Services

Danna Donald

Toronto

tel: 416.862.4214


Danna’s practice focuses on lending transactions, including project finance, infrastructure, syndicated loan facilities, asset-based loan facilities and acquisition loan facilities. ...


Amanda Heale

Associate, Taxation

Amanda Heale

Toronto

tel: 416.862.6780


Amanda’s tax practice focuses on corporate tax planning for Canadian multinational corporations, including tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate ...


Robert Hughes

Associate, Corporate

Robert Hughes

Toronto

tel: 416.862.6718


Robert's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, and general corporate matters. Robert regularly advises public and ...


Shawn Irving

Associate, Litigation

Shawn Irving

Toronto

tel: 416.862.4733


Shawn has a wide ranging corporate commercial litigation practice, with expertise in securities litigation, banking law, insolvency and restructuring, and ...


Paul Ivanoff

Partner, Litigation

Paul Ivanoff

Toronto

tel: 416.862.4223


Paul’s practice involves the litigation, arbitration and mediation of disputes arising out of construction and infrastructure projects. He also provides ...


Craig Lockwood

Partner, Litigation

Craig Lockwood

Toronto

tel: 416.862.5988


Craig has extensive experience in class proceedings, product liability matters, securities regulation, commercial banking litigation and pension litigation. He also ...


Jeffrey Murray

Associate, Corporate

Jeffrey Murray

Toronto

tel: 416.862.4250


Jeff regularly advises public and private companies (as well as private equity investors) in connection with acquisitions and divestitures and ...


Shuli Rodal

Partner, Competition & Antitrust

Shuli Rodal

Toronto

tel: 416.862.4858


Shuli specializes in helping clients navigate the process of merger review before the Competition Bureau as well as foreign investment ...