FASKEN MARTINEAU DUMOULIN LLP
With offices in Canada, Europe and South Africa and an international staff of almost 700 lawyers, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP is one of the most highly respected and accomplished firms in the current edition. Fasken lawyers appear 42 times across 20 of the following chapters, and put in particularly strong performances in the mining, insolvency and environment sections.
The firm’s mining team is internationally recognised and five of its “leading lights” appear in the corresponding chapter. Financing and litigation expert and mining team leader Michael Bourassa is named Who’s Who Legal’s lawyer of the year in this discipline for the second consecutive time in our most recent international research and he is “inarguably the best” according to peers. A further two lawyers join him in Toronto, while Jean Gagné is noted for his “superb” transactional work in Quebec City and Vancouver’s Josh Lewis comes “highly recommended” for his project development expertise.
Jonathan Levin’s broad-based and “hugely accomplished” financial services practice earns him a prominent listing as one of four Fasken lawyers in the insolvency and restructuring chapter as well as further recognition in the banking, capital markets and corporate governance sections. Robert Paré is noted for his complex M&A and public financing work and joins Levin in the corporate governance and capital markets chapters, while transactional expert John Torrey and Ontario business law group chair Brian Wright add their names to the banking chapter.
Vancouver’s Paul Wilson heads the national energy and environmental group at the firm and ranks highly alongside three other Fasken lawyers in the environment chapter, where peers praise his natural resources and infrastructure projects work as “first rate”. Also noted for his natural resources and energy expertise is Henri Alvarez QC, who appears in the oil and gas and arbitration chapters. Elsewhere, Fasken’s “very strong” disputes team is represented by John Morin QC, who is a prominent name in the commercial litigation section, and Peter Pliszka: a “national leader” in product liability defence.
Brian Kelsall is internationally lauded for his infrastructure and project development work and he appears in both the project finance and public procurement chapters. Joining him in the pages of the former section, Xeno Martis is strongly recommended for his corporate financing and debt work, while Helmut Johannsen’s regulatory and engineering expertise earn him a place alongside Kelsall in the latter chapter.
Noted for his “outstanding” expertise in competition and public law, Lawrence Dunbar leads the firm’s communications group and is one of three Fasken lawyers to earn a prominent listing in the corresponding section. Technology and privacy law expert John Beardwood and “legendary” counsel Ian Kyer both appear in the internet and e-commerce chapter.
Listings in the construction, corporate tax, immigration, insurance, employment and real estate sections further speak to the firm’s strength in depth.
