Stikeman Elliott LLP

Stikeman Elliott LLP has a excellent bench of corporate and M&A specialists who sit all over Canada. In Toronto, the corporate team is led by Jonah Mann, while John Laffin and Jeff Hershenfield co-lead the capital markets, public mergers and acquisitions group. The Toronto private equity, private mergers and acquisitions practice is jointly led by corporate specialists Kim Le and Kevin Smyth. Over in Montréal, Pierre-Yves Leduc leads the wider corporate group, while Warren Silversmith heads up the private equity and M&A practice and David Massé leads the securities team. For Calgary, Benjamin Hudy and Janel Young both spearhead the corporate practice and Michael Urbani leads the Vancouver corporate and securities team. In the Toronto team, Jeffrey Singer excels in cross-border M&As, John Ciardullo advises Canadian boards, special committees, banks and regulatory authorities in transactional issues, and Simon Romano is well-versed in corporate governance and executive compensation. Amanda Linett is noted for her work advising senior management, boards of directors and special committees in M&A transactions. Warren Katz and John Leopold are both key to the Montréal team, with the former handling cross-border M&As and the latter handling complex corporate and commercial issues. Sophie Lamonde is also part of the Montréal team and is a corporate law specialist who advises both domestic and international clients.