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Fasken is a leading international law firm often called upon to advise on the most complex and high-profile matters. Established in 1863, we combine our strong legacy with a forward-thinking approach, leveraging innovation and technology to provide efficient solutions for our clients. With a robust team of over 950 lawyers spread across 10 offices in Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, we offer comprehensive legal services spanning a wide range of practice areas and industry sectors. Our Financial Services group excels in navigating the intricate challenges that businesses face in today's dynamic landscape. We serve as trusted advisors to a diverse clientele, including financial institutions and other regulated and unregulated financial services providers across Canada. Our clients span banks, trust companies, insurers, reinsurers, credit unions, fintech firms, money services businesses, insurance agents, and brokers, among others. With deep industry insight and regulatory expertise, amplified by our presence in Canada's key financial centers, we provide comprehensive support, addressing our clients' financial, transactional, corporate, and regulatory needs with precision and effectiveness.

As one of Canada’s top business law firms, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) provides exceptional legal services to leading businesses in Canada and around the world. Blakes leading Insurance lawyers provide sophisticated legal advice on all aspects of insurance business, operations, structure, investments, acquisitions, corporate governance and risk management. Our multidisciplinary team advises on financings, restructurings, onshore and offshore reinsurance arrangements and related trusts, pension de-risking transactions. The Firm’s preeminent M&A expertise includes the insurance sector where we advise on all aspects of sale and purchase transactions. Blakes has the largest and most active Financial Services Regulatory practice in Canada, allowing us to effectively advise clients on the current regulatory framework and any draft legislation and regulatory proposals that may affect them. When disputes arise, the Blakes Litigation & Dispute Resolution team represents both insurers and insureds at all court levels and before administrative tribunals and government commissions.
Our lawyers are consistently recognized as leaders in their fields by the leading directories, including in Benchmark Canada, Chambers Canada; Chambers Global; The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory; Legal 500 Canada; Who’s Who Legal Series; and Best Lawyers in Canada. In the Thomson Reuters Canada Law Firm Brand Index 2023, Blakes was again named the Canadian legal market’s most favoured law firm due, in part, to our commitment to building deep relationships with our clients.

Canada’s insurance industry is a complex environment requiring specialized expertise and an “out of the box” mindset. Clients look to Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) for a fully integrated national network of seasoned legal talent. The firm’s track record is based on the expertise and commitment of more than 750 lawyers, intellectual property agents, and other professionals speaking more than 20 languages across the firm.

Working closely with our clients, we provide advice and assist,
• on matters pertaining to the requirements of the Insurance Companies Act and provincial insurance laws, regulations and guidelines, the incorporation, organization and licensing of federal and provincial insurers and reinsurers, the entrance into Canada of foreign insurers and reinsurers as well as non-resident agents, brokers and adjusters.
• with policy drafting and provide advice with respect to near insurance products, including reciprocals and protection schemes.
• when dealing with regulators on both compliance filings and responses and at hearings.
• service commercial matters and support corporate reorganizations, including mergers and acquisitions and transfers of books of business.

Our national Insurance and Tort Liability Group is unique in its size and specialization. It is believed to be the largest such group in Canada, comprised of 125 professionals, including 20 bilingual members in Montréal. Our clients include many of the largest national and global insurers, reinsurers and reciprocals in Canada. In addition, we provide legal services to major brokerage firms, large companies carrying substantial self-insured retentions, adjusting firms and regulatory bodies involved in the insurance industry. We are involved as counsel and as litigators, in all areas of insurance law, from investigations to claims analysis, coverage, defense and subrogation. We have experience representing our clients through the maze of regulatory compliance and sanctions processes.

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. Dentons Insurance team is your business, regulatory, litigation and compliance partner in Canada and around the world. Our multidisciplinary team ensures that you are thoroughly covered and strongly defended, no matter if you are an insurance company or a company in one of the many industries that Dentons services. Our full service model allows us to advise you on corporate and insurance regulatory issues covering everything from risk assessment, direction and defense, commercial litigation, policy interpretation to drafting and reviewing of commercial agreements, and structuring complex and digital insurance products as well as warranties, service contracts and other non-insurance products.

Established since 1999, Donati Maisonneuve is a premier boutique law firm with a dedicated focus on litigation within the sectors of insurance, construction, real estate, and financial services. Our firm is primarily oriented toward risk management and delivering innovative solutions to the complex challenges faced by our clientele.

Fondé en 1999, Donati Maisonneuve est un cabinet boutique spécialisé en litige, oeuvrant dans les industries de l'assurance, de la construction, de l'immobilier et des services financiers. Notre cabinet est orienté vers la gestion des risques et l'apport de solutions innovantes aux défis complexes auxquels notre clientèle est confrontée.

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.

We are a full service mediation firm specializing in Life and Health industry matters across Canada.

A national firm of more than 485 lawyers, Stikeman Elliott is recognized for the sophistication of its business law practice. Stikeman Elliott is recognized as a leader in Canadian capital markets and in domestic and international M&A by industry league tables, and is ranked among Canada’s top business litigation practices by Canadian publisher, Lexpert. The firm also offers in-depth expertise in many industry sectors, including insurance, energy, mining, technology and outsourcing.

Torys is an international business law firm known for its 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. With offices in Toronto, Calgary, Montréal, New York and Halifax, 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.

Since the firm’s inception in 1964, Beard Winter’s insurance practice group has acted on behalf of local, national and global insurers, delivering client-focused advocacy solutions over a wide array of specialty practice areas. Our current group carries on a proud history of excellence and integrity, which includes three appointees to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Our Life/Disability/Health (LDH) team has years of experience advising domestic and international insurers on their litigation defence needs in this emerging area of practice. The LDH professionals at Beard Winter LLP understand, through our service to numerous institutional clients, that vigorous and exacting defences are crucial in this highly specialised and aggressively expanding area of law. Our clients appreciate our common sense and cost-effective approach to handling their claims including disputes involving short and long-term disability, critical illness, life and health insurance matters. We also counsel new insurers entering the Canadian life and health market how to best position themselves and their products.

Our commitment to our insurer clients is to provide the highest standard of legal advice on every file, with results that exceed expectations. We tailor our services to meet your business objectives by executing case resolution programs that resolve claims quickly and in the most cost-conscious manner. Always focused on delivering outstanding results both inside and outside the courtroom. Backed up by our record of successfully arguing a broad range of important legal issues at all levels of Canadian courts, including the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Canada.

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 startups to multinational 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. At Cassels, your success is our priority. Learn more at cassels.com.

With over 125 years in the Kingston community, we are confident in our ability to provide you with nothing short of excellence. Our team is powerful, with over 30 lawyers across 13 practice areas. We offer a broad range of legal support, with highly skilled and experienced lawyers in every practice area.

The lawyers of Davies Howe LLP are dedicated to tenacious advocacy, strategic solutions and service excellence. Davies Howe LLP has a broad litigation practice and a number of our lawyers work exclusively in the area of insurance defence. We have acted for many insurance companies, including life and disability insurers, for more than 30 years. Our insurance defence group helps our clients assess risk and develop sound strategies to ensure that their best interests are served. Our litigation team appears regularly before all levels of the Ontario Courts. When appropriate, we focus on early and efficient settlement of claims. 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. For more information, please contact David Cherepacha, Ava Kanner or David Fenicky at 416-977-7088.

Lavery’s lawyers in the Financial Products and Services Group can advise you on all the legal issues relating to the financial products and services industry – particularly the registration of firms and other entities, regulatory compliance of financial products and services, the development of new and innovative products, and the compliance and governance of registrants – while also providing assistance with inspections by the regulatory authorities, compliance reviews, investigations and regulatory procedures.

Our professionals serve a wide range of clients in the financial sector, including insurance companies (damage insurance, life insurance and reinsurance), agents, insurance brokerage firms and investment advisors.

Lavery’s seasoned lawyers can offer you a broad range of integrated services to help you successfully complete your transactions and market novel financial products and services. We also offer preventative advice and can defend you in any dispute, with a deep understanding of various types of files, whether it be a disciplinary matter, a regulatory compliance issue or a professional liability matter. The experience we have acquired in dealing with regulators, our multidisciplinary approach, and our collaborative work with members of the firm in other practice areas – such as securities, mergers and acquisitions, banking services and tax – enable us to quickly mobilize a team of specialized lawyers to help you achieve your objectives and find the optimal solution to your situation.

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.

Stewart McKelvey is Atlantic Canada’s largest full-service law firm with six offices across four provinces. We are leaders in providing the valued legal advice and innovative solutions clients need to solve their challenges now and in the future. By thinking forward, we guide our clients with a forward focus by solving their business challenges, avoiding future risks and identifying new opportunities. We lead clients and the practice of law forward.

Bennett Gastle PC is a boutique litigation firm with a focus in insurance defence. With almost 20 years in business, Bennett Gastle takes pride in having developed a litigation system of handling defence work that is exceptionally organized, efficient and effective, while meeting the business and reporting requirements of our clients.

A large, Alberta-based law firm with significant legal experience across a multitude of service areas.