With thousands of lawyers, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) is one of Canada`s largest law firms. This limited liability company (LLP) offers a variety of services with the aim of providing optimal results to each client. The firm`s staff is almost exclusively bilingual. For its efforts, BLG has been the subject of numerous national and international legal publications. Since the beginning of the gradual reopening of the economy, law firms have been increasingly involved in major financial and M&A transactions that slowed at the beginning of the health crisis. The first three months of 2021 saw a significant increase in M&A activity, driven by encouraging financing conditions, with deals in the third quarter of the year reaching their highest level since 2016, as strong equity markets and low interest rates boosted deals suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While Canadian companies have traditionally not shared revenues, law firm executives say their teams are « working at full capacity » in almost every practice area, but especially on the transaction side: private equity and mergers and acquisitions. For Canada`s top law firms, 2021 was the busiest year on record. Blakes also serves on the advisory board of TechLaw Group, a global network of law firms in more than 30 countries that advocates for clients in technology-related industries. With gross sales of $681,780,000 in 2020, the company ranked 79th in the 2021 Global 200 ranking. Fasken LLP is one of the largest international litigation and commercial law firms, employing more than 800 lawyers in ten offices on four continents. The firm`s offices are located across Canada, including Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa and Quebec City. The firm has international offices in Paris and London, as well as offices in South Africa and China.
McMillan LLP is one of Canada`s largest national law firms. As a full-service business law firm, McMillan`s extensive expertise serves public, private and not-for-profit clients nationally and globally in a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on infrastructure and construction. natural resources and energy; technology and technology transactions; and transportation. With our globally recognized expertise and leadership in cross-border transactions and investments in Canada, debt and equity mobilization, complex dispute resolution and advice through complex regulatory systems, we provide our clients with creative, solution-oriented business and legal advice. « For Canadian clients` preferred law firms, previous differentiators such as strong personal relationships, responsiveness and specialized legal knowledge have diminished as defining traits, » said Jen Dezso, Director of Research and Client Relations at Thomson Reuters. « Canadian clients place more importance on the value of practical business advisory services and the broader strength of lawyers, both of which were mentioned more frequently in this year`s survey. » The largest law firms in Canada, based on the number of lawyers, have some things in common. They serve large companies that are often on the Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 lists, and sometimes even advise governments. They are primarily based in Toronto, where the vast majority of business law is practiced, but their offices are spread around the world, as most of their companies operate in more than one country. Canada`s competitive legal market is home to a large number of full-service firms. With a few exceptions, the « Seven Sisters » take the helm of most complex, large-cap and subsequent companies and financial firms. These include Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Goodmans LLP, McCarthy Tétrault, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Stikeman Elliott LLP and Torys. A few full-service international law firms, such as Baker McKenzie, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Dentons, Gowling WLG and Norton Rose Fulbright, also operate domestically.