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