Meet our 2023 Annual Meeting Sponsors/Commanditaires en 2023
Our sponsors are integral to the success of our event each year. The CLHIA would like to thank all of the 2023 sponsors who joined us in Vancouver. We hope you'll join us in 2024 in Québec City.
Nos commanditaires font partie intégrante du succès de notre événement chaque année. L’ACCAP tient à remercier tous les commanditaires qui nous ont rejoints à Vancouver en 2023. Nous espérons que vous serez des nôtres à Québec en 2024.
Thank you to our Gold Sponsor
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Blakes is a leading Canadian law Firm with offices in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Montréal, Ottawa, New York and London. We are trusted advisers to the business leaders and emerging entrepreneurs whose strategic vision defines today’s — and will shape tomorrow’s — business landscape.
Thank you to our Gold Sponsor
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
As Canada’s law firm, BLG provides high-value advice and advocacy to address our clients’ business challenges and problems. We go beyond legal to anticipate, consult and advise in a rapidly changing digital world.
We have extensive experience acting in specialized and complex deals and disputes. Vigilant, curious and collaborative, we harness technology and innovation to offer our clients exceptional service and value.
We have extensive experience acting in specialized and complex deals and disputes. Vigilant, curious and collaborative, we harness technology and innovation to offer our clients exceptional service and value.
Thank you to our Gold Sponsor
Dentons
Dentons is designed to be different. As the world's largest global law firm with 21,000 professionals in over 200 locations in more than 80 countries, we can help you grow, protect, operate and finance your business. Our polycentric and purpose-driven approach, together with our commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and ESG, ensures we challenge the status quo to stay focused on what matters most to you.
Thank you to our Gold Sponsor
Fasken
Fasken is a leading advisor to all players in the insurance sector, including life and P&C insurers, reinsurers, agents, brokers, MGAs and insurtech companies. We advise both established players and new entrants on regulatory, transactional and corporate matters. Our lawyers combine transactional and regulatory expertise, allowing the same team to provide seamless advice on M&A, reinsurance transactions, distribution arrangements, risk management, and corporate governance issues. With our national practice, we have extensive experience dealing with the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions and provincial regulators including the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA), the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).
Thank you to our Gold Sponsor
McCarthy Tetrault
McCarthy Tétrault is a Canadian law firm that offers a full suite of legal and business solutions to clients in Canada and around the world. We deliver integrated business, litigation, tax, real property, and labour and employment law services through our offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal, Québec City, New York and London, U.K. Our industry expertise and cross-practice, collaborative platform ensure we help build our clients’ competitive advantage.
Thank you to our Gold Sponsor
Results Mediators
Results Mediators provide effective and economical conflict resolution services to both corporate and private clients for litigated and non-litigated matters across Canada
Thank you to our Gold Sponsor
Stikeman Elliott
Stikeman Elliott is a global leader in Canadian business law, offering creative solutions to clients across Canada and around the world. The firm provides the highest quality counsel, decisive advice, and workable solutions through offices located in Montréal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, London and Sydney.
When Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott first opened the firm’s doors in 1952, they were united in their pledge to do things differently to help clients meet their Canadian business objectives. They made it their mission to deliver only the highest quality counsel and most efficient services.
When Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott first opened the firm’s doors in 1952, they were united in their pledge to do things differently to help clients meet their Canadian business objectives. They made it their mission to deliver only the highest quality counsel and most efficient services.
Thank you to our Gold Sponsor
Torys LLP
Torys is known for sophisticated counsel, best-in-class client service and the most cohesive cross-border team in the market.
We are proud of the caliber of our thinking. We bring together the sharpest legal minds to solve clients’ toughest problems and help them stay ahead of the curve. For over 80 years we have been working in partnership with clients in this way, and our track record speaks for itself.
We are proud of the caliber of our thinking. We bring together the sharpest legal minds to solve clients’ toughest problems and help them stay ahead of the curve. For over 80 years we have been working in partnership with clients in this way, and our track record speaks for itself.
Thank you to our Silver Sponsor
Andree Mediations
Leanne Andree has mediated numerous disability, life insurance, critical illness insurance, employment and advisor liability claims. Leanne's mediation practice specializes in the resolution of all aspects of the life and health insurance world, with an emphasis on life and disability litigation. Leanne has completed the Advanced Mediation course at the Harvard Negotiation Institute.
Leanne brings to the mediation table a deep knowledge and understanding of the life and health insurance industry as a result of her 10+ years as Assistant Vice-President and Senior Counsel in the litigation group of Clarica/Sun Life Insurance in Waterloo. Her practice focused on both group and individual insurance claims, including disability, life, reinsurance and all aspects of advisor litigation.
Leanne brings to the mediation table a deep knowledge and understanding of the life and health insurance industry as a result of her 10+ years as Assistant Vice-President and Senior Counsel in the litigation group of Clarica/Sun Life Insurance in Waterloo. Her practice focused on both group and individual insurance claims, including disability, life, reinsurance and all aspects of advisor litigation.
Thank you to our Silver Sponsor
Beard Winter LLP
Our combined legal experience provides a tradition of excellence and a thorough knowledge of legal and commercial environments across a variety of fields, both domestic and international.
As a member of the Law Firm Alliance, we have developed strong cross-border relationships with lawyers and law firms around the globe that embrace the same values and work ethics. These relationships allow us to ensure that our clients receive the best and most effective legal advice and service.
As a member of the Law Firm Alliance, we have developed strong cross-border relationships with lawyers and law firms around the globe that embrace the same values and work ethics. These relationships allow us to ensure that our clients receive the best and most effective legal advice and service.
Thank you to our Silver Sponsor
Bennett Gastle PC
Bennett Gastle Professional Corporation is a litigation firm devoted to providing our clients with a broad range of litigation, trade law, international arbitration, and mediation services. Our firm concentrates on civil and commercial litigation with a strong insurance defence practice. However, our lawyers have a wide variety of litigation experience and serve as effective advocates in complex matters. Aside from litigation, Chuck Gastle’s international trade law, arbitration and policy practice reflects our unique access to academia and international contacts.
Thank you to our Silver Sponsor
Cassels Brock & Blackwell
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP is a Canadian law firm focused on serving the transaction, advocacy, and advisory needs of the country’s most dynamic business sectors.
Cassels offers one of the largest business law practices in Canada, advising clients from start-ups to multi-national organizations – across the street and around the world – and we are consistently cited as market leaders by such authorities as Chambers, Lexpert, and Best Lawyers.
We are dedicated to staying on the leading edge of trends in law and business to offer practical and flexible solutions to your legal challenges, and our lawyers are proud to serve leadership roles in business, civic, charitable, and cultural organizations in community, national, and international organizations.
Cassels offers one of the largest business law practices in Canada, advising clients from start-ups to multi-national organizations – across the street and around the world – and we are consistently cited as market leaders by such authorities as Chambers, Lexpert, and Best Lawyers.
We are dedicated to staying on the leading edge of trends in law and business to offer practical and flexible solutions to your legal challenges, and our lawyers are proud to serve leadership roles in business, civic, charitable, and cultural organizations in community, national, and international organizations.
Thank you to our Silver Sponsor
Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & Bonham LLP
Relying on a strong foundation of good people and quality work, our standard of excellence has only strengthened over the last 125+ years. Today, Cunningham Swan Carty Little & Bonham LLP comprises 30+ committed lawyers who work together with a highly skilled support staff, offering a full range of experienced legal support to Southeastern Ontario.
Thank you to our Silver Sponsor
Davies Howe LLP
Davies Howe LLP is your land development and litigation team, dedicated to tenacious advocacy, strategic solutions and service excellence.
Practicing exclusively in the areas of land development law and civil litigation, we believe that resolving legal issues requires a close working relationship with clients and a responsive and common sense approach to finding solutions. To accomplish this, we work collaboratively, utilizing our individual and collective strengths for the benefit of each client.
We have been leading advocates in the areas of land development law and civil litigation for clients throughout the Province of Ontario for more than 20 years since being founded by Jeff Davies and Bob Howe. We act for a full spectrum of clients, from small entrepreneurs and public agencies to pension funds and some of the largest private sector land developers and financial services companies in the country.
Practicing exclusively in the areas of land development law and civil litigation, we believe that resolving legal issues requires a close working relationship with clients and a responsive and common sense approach to finding solutions. To accomplish this, we work collaboratively, utilizing our individual and collective strengths for the benefit of each client.
We have been leading advocates in the areas of land development law and civil litigation for clients throughout the Province of Ontario for more than 20 years since being founded by Jeff Davies and Bob Howe. We act for a full spectrum of clients, from small entrepreneurs and public agencies to pension funds and some of the largest private sector land developers and financial services companies in the country.
Thank you to our Silver Sponsor
Michael Schmidt Professional Corporation
Schmidt Mediation Group provides mediation services for a broad spectrum of insurance and non insurance related matters and are committed to providing a comfortable environment allowing for workable solutions.
Thank you to our Silver Sponsor
Parlee McLaw
At Parlee McLaws we are committed to service and to delivering sound, strategic legal solutions. We take pride in knowing our clients' industries, understanding their concerns and providing practical advice. It’s an approach that has allowed us to build relationships based on trust, respect and results.