McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Toronto, Ontario

http://www.mccarthy.ca

Built on a unique model of collaboration, innovation and efficiency, McCarthy Tétrault delivers strategic legal and business solutions for clients, wherever their business takes them. The firm offers clients access to unparalleled legal talent, practice experience, and deep knowledge of the industries driving the Canadian and global economies.

With offices in Canada’s major commercial centres, as well as New York and London, UK, McCarthy Tétrault provides advice and services in business law, litigation, tax, real estate, and labour and employment law. With a fully integrated platform, lawyers work seamlessly across practices and regions, advising on complex and significant matters for major Canadian and international clients.

As Canada’s most innovative law firm, McCarthy Tétrault has led advancements in the legal profession and effectively adapted to changing client and market demands. The firm continues to re-imagine and redefine legal service delivery, driving value for clients through customized project management, alternative fee arrangements, creative staffing solutions, and process re-engineering. The firm’s MT>Divisions are a unique group of award-winning complementary business lines, either acquired or developed by the firm. Flexible and scalable, MT>Divisions’ technology-empowered services support shifting client needs to anticipate and meet market trends.

In 2018, McCarthy Tétrault launched Inclusion Now, an award-winning, multi-year plan that informs our vision to be the firm of choice for clients and talent. A first-of-its-kind in the Canadian legal profession, the firm built a dedicated Inclusion Office, led by a full-time Chief Inclusion Officer. Inclusion Now’s mandate is to integrate our values of diversity, authenticity, inclusion and corporate social responsibility into everything that we do and who we are as a firm. This includes developing internal action groups and partnering with external organizations to address the imbalance of diverse voices within the legal profession, and to support and encourage others in the legal community to develop similar initiatives.

Examples of the many recent accomplishments of our firm and our people:

• For the seventh consecutive year, McCarthy Tétrault received the most Band 1 lawyer rankings among Canadian law firms in the 2024 edition of Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business. The firm had more lawyers, practices and industries ranked in the guide and more Band 1 practice area rankings than any other Canadian law firm, and was named 2023 Litigation/Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year. In all, Chambers Canada 2024 recognized McCarthy Tétrault with:

• 31 Band 1 lawyer rankings
• 29 Band 1 practice and industry area rankings:
• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets
• Competition/Antitrust
• Corporate/Commercial: The Elite (British Columbia,
Ontario, Québec)
• Corporate/M&A
• Dispute Resolution: Class Action (Defence)
• Employment and Labour (Canada, Ontario)
• Energy: Power
• Energy & Natural Resources: Mining
• Environment
• Gaming & Licensing
• Healthcare: Contentious
• Information Technology
• Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
• International Trade/WTO
• Litigation: General Commercial (Canada, Ontario)
• Litigation: Securities (Ontario)
• Projects: (PPP & Infrastructure)
• Real Estate (Canada, British Columbia, Ontario,
Québec)
• Retail
• Telecommunications & Broadcasting
• White Collar Crime & Government Investigations

• 222 total lawyer rankings

• 66 total practice and industry area rankings

• 288 total rankings

• McCarthy Tétrault was named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for 2024, marking 12 consecutive years as recipients of this highly-respected accolade.
Additionally, the firm was selected as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers for the 11th consecutive year in 2023.

• McCarthy Tétrault was recognized as one of Canada’s Best Law Firms for 2024 by the Globe and Mail

• The 2023 Canadian Law Awards recognized McCarthy Tétrault with three deal awards for the firm’s work on various innovative and complex legal matters in the preceding year.

• MT>3, a Division of McCarthy Tétrault and Canada’s premier e-discovery practice, received Canadian Lawyer’s 2023 Readers’ Choice Award in Litigation Support & E-Discovery Consultants. This is the fourth time MT>3 has won the award in the nine years since its inception.

• McCarthy Tétrault’s Fintech Group was ranked Band 1 by Chambers FinTech Legal Canada in 2024. In addition, the group’s leaders and firm partners Ana Badour, Lori Stein and Christine Ing were also ranked.

• McCarthy Tétrault was ranked extensively in the 2023 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory with 245 lawyers recognized across key industry groups and practice areas. The firm also advised on three of Lexpert’s Top 10 Business Decisions for 2023.

• Canadian Lawyer recognized partners Awanish Sinha and Karl Tabbakh as among Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers for 2023 in the Business category.

• Partners Rami Chalabi, Chrystelle Chevalier-Gagnon, Samantha Cunliffe, Fiona Legere, and Byron Shaw were named 2023 Lexpert Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40.

• At their 2023 awards ceremony, Benchmark Litigation awarded McCarthy Tétrault its 2023 Impact Case Award, for the firm’s work on Turpin v. TD Asset Management . As well, the firm received the Health Law/Medical Firm of the Year award, and Michael Feder received the British Columbia Litigator of the Year award. Benchmark’s annual publication recognized 60 McCarthy Tétrault litigators for their expertise, and:

• two partners were named as Top 50 Trial lawyers in
Canada;

• seven partners were named as Top 50 Women in
Litigation; and

• seven partners were named on its 40 & Under Hot
List.

• McCarthy Tétrault received multiple recognitions and Tier 1 rankings from IFLR1000 in 2023 in the areas of Banking, Capital Markets: Debt, Capital Markets: Equity, Financial Services Regulatory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Development: Energy, Project Development: Infrastructure, Project Finance, and Restructuring & Insolvency, in addition to:

• Leading Lawyer rankings across all industry and
practice areas: 48 Highly Regarded, 5 Market
Leaders, 12 Notable Practitioners, 6 Rising Stars,
2 Expert Consultants;

• Recognizing Ana Badour, Linda Brown, Nancy Carroll
as Women Leaders

• The firm was recognized in 33 practice and industry areas in the Legal 500’s 2024 Canada edition, with 57 lawyers ranked as “Leading Individuals,” 13 as “Hall of Fame,” 21 as “Next Generation,” 8 as “Rising Stars,” and 152 as “Recommended.” The firm received Tier 1 rankings in the following 16 areas:

• Banking and finance
• Banking and Finance: Regulatory
• Banking and Finance: Transactional Matters
• Capital markets
• Competition and antitrust
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution: British Columbia
• Dispute resolution: Ontario
• Dispute resolution: Québec
• Energy and natural resources: Power
• Environment
• Infrastructure projects
• International trade
• Real estate
• Tax
• Technology
• Telecoms
• Transport: Other transport

League table results:

• #1 Canadian firm by deal value in several international regions, and consistently ranked as a leading firm within Canada (Mergermarket Global and Regional M&A Report) (Q3 2023)

• #1 firm by value and deal count for Canadian Legal Counsel to the Issuer on Equity & Debt offerings. The firm also advised on five of the top 10 largest prospectus debt offerings (Financial Post Corporate Finance League Tables) (Q3 2023)

• #1 Canadian firm by deal count in North America for All Activity, comprised of Project Finance, M&A and Energy Transition & Renewables (Infralogic Global and Regional Rankings) (Q3 2023)