Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Type Limited liability partnership
Industry Law
Founded Dundas, Ontario, 1862
Headquarters Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, New York
Products Legal advice
Website www.osler.com

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is one of Canada’s largest business law firms practising nationally and internationally from its offices in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, and New York. It is one of Bay Street's "seven sisters". [1] Clients include industry and business leaders in all segments of the market and at various stages in the growth of their businesses. With over 470 lawyers, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is one of the country’s ten largest law firms, and is one of only two Canadian firms ranked top tier in five of six categories in the 2011 edition of IFLR 1000: The Guide to the Leading Financial Law Firms.[2] Clients are quoted as saying that Osler is an “outstanding firm and the lawyers give exceptional service,” in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2011. [3]

In 2011, the firm ranked first in the Thomson Reuters league tables for Canadian mergers and acquisitions, advising on more dollars-worth of announced deals than any of its domestic competitors in the first nine-months of 2011. In all, Osler’s lawyers were retained for 49 Canadian deals worth a total of $24-billion (U.S.), or 21 per cent of the new market. [4]

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History

The firm was founded in 1862 when Britton Bath Osler began practicing law in Dundas, Ontario. He would later move to Toronto to join D’Alton McCarthy’s Toronto partnership, subsequently known as McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin and Creelman. The firm quickly became one of the leading lights of Toronto’s legal world, with Osler himself acting in some of the highest profile criminal trials of the day, including the Treason Trial of Louis Riel in 1885, in which he helped lead the prosecution.

Britton Bath Osler died in 1900, and the firm would eventually in 1916 adopt the name Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt which is the name it continues to be known by to this day.

Areas of Practice

The firm has a diverse range of practice areas:

  • Asia
  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Climate Change and Emissions Trading
  • Competition/Antitrust
  • Corporate Finance and Securities
  • Corporate Governance
  • Employment and Labour Law
  • Environmental, Regulatory and Aboriginal
  • Executive Compensation
  • Income Funds and REITs
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Trade
  • Insolvency and Restructuring
  • Latin America
  • Litigation
  • Marketing and Distribution
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Municipal
  • Nightlife Law
  • Outsourcing
  • Pensions and Benefits
  • Privacy
  • Project Finance
  • Public - Private Partnerships / Alternative Financing and Procurement
  • Real Estate
  • Regulatory Investigations
  • Research
  • Taxation
  • Translation
  • Trusts and Estates
  • U.S./Cross-Border


Offices

TORONTO

100 King Street West

1 First Canadian Place

Suite 6100, P.O. Box 50

Toronto ON M5X 1B8

Tel: 416.362.2111

Fax: 416.862.6666

MONTREAL

1000 De La Gauchetière Street West

Suite 2100

Montréal QC H3B 4W5

Tel: 514.904.8100

Fax: 514.904.8101

CALGARY

Suite 2500

TransCanada Tower

450 - 1st St. S.W.

Calgary AB T2P 5H1

Tel: 403.260.7000

Fax: 403.260.7024


OTTAWA

Suite 1900

340 Albert Street

Ottawa ON K1R 7Y6

Tel: 613.235.7234

Fax: 613.235.2867

NEW YORK

620 8th Avenue

36th Floor

New York, NY 10018

USA

Tel: 212.867.5800

Fax: 212.867.5802

External links

  1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(law_firms)
  2. ^ http://www.iflr1000.com/JurisdictionFirm/1842/130/Osler-Hoskin--Harcourt.html
  3. ^ http://www.chambersandpartners.com/UK/Editorial/40049
  4. ^ http://www.osler.com/NewsResources/Details.aspx?id=3780