Stikeman Elliott is recognized nationally and internationally for the sophistication of its business law practice.
The firm is a Canadian leader in each of its core practice areas - corporate finance, M&A, banking, corporate commercial, real estate, tax, insolvency, structured finance, competition, intellectual property, administrative law, employment and business litigation - and has developed in-depth knowledge of a wide range of industries including banking, insurance, energy, mining, infrastructure, retail, telecommunications and technology.
Located in Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver, its Canadian offices are among the leading practices in their respective jurisdictions. Stikeman Elliott is also prominent internationally, with a longstanding presence in London, New York and Sydney and extensive experience in China, South and Southeast Asia as well as in central and eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa.
The firm's 500 members include many of Canada's most prominent business lawyers, including leading litigators, in several of Canada's provinces.
London-based World Finance magazine named Stikeman Elliott as the 2008 Best Corporate & Commercial Team in Canada and Chambers Global identifies it as one of Canada's two top-tier Corporate/M&A practices. The firm is frequently ranked among Canada's leaders in domestic and cross-border M&A league tables from Thomson Financial, Mergermarket and Mergerstat Review. Stikeman Elliott is also the leading adviser in Canadian securities offerings, ranking first from 2005 to 2008 (inclusive) in Bloomberg league tables in terms of overall volume, as well as receiving top rankings from the Financial Post. The firm's National Litigation Group, whose specializations include class actions, securities litigation and restructurings, has been ranked among the top three business litigation practices in Canada by Lexpert.
Among Stikeman Elliott's other highly regarded practices are competition/antitrust (named as a leader by the Global Competition Review), taxation (highly ranked by Lexpert) and structured finance (widely considered to be Canada's foremost practice in that field). The firm is also well known for its extensive regulatory and government relations expertise; the latter anchored by its office in Ottawa.
Because Stikeman Elliott has grown through internal expansion, rather than through mergers, the firm's clients can expect a consistently high level of service from each of its eight offices. Its offices frequently work together on major transactions and litigation files, and regularly collaborate with prominent U.S. and international law firms on cross-border transactions of global significance.
The firm has invested heavily in leading-edge knowledge management systems in order to assure our clients of advice of the highest quality, grounded in the accumulated expertise of Stikeman Elliott's national and international practice.
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