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w w w . c a n a d i a n l a w y e r m a g . c o m M A R C H 2 0 1 9 39 MINDEN GROSS LLP MINDENGROSS.COM FOGLER RUBINOFF LLP FOGLERS.COM 5 6 Total lawyers: 63 Office: Toronto Core practice areas: business law; commercial leasing and real estate; financial services; property taxation and assessment law; employment and labour law; litigation; securities and capital markets; tax and succession planning; wills and estates Key clients: Lanterra Developments; Fieldgate Development Construction Ltd.; First Gulf Corp.; The Global Group; H&R REIT; Royal Bank of Canada; Marlin Spring Investments Limited Notable mandates: acted for the majority shareholder as part of Debco Bag Distributors' merger with HUB Promotional Group; advised on the TSXV listings for Enthusiast Gaming and for GTEC Holdings; acted for Shotgun Fund, FirePower Equity, Lynx Equity Limited and Succession Capital on multiple M&A transactions and for FirePower Equity and Area One Farms on multiple fund formations; acted for a premier residential developer on the acquisition of a portfolio of multi-family rental properties in Montreal and Quebec City for $117.5 million; acted for a syn- dicate of developers in the sale of a residential mixed-use develop- ment with a purchase price in excess of $100 million Star alumni: Robyn Kestenberg, executive vice president, corporate development, H&R REIT; David Feldberg, president and CEO, Teknion; Mark Mandelbaum, co-founder, Lanterra Developments; Mark Weisleder, author, columnist and speaker; David Glass, senior vice president, The Global Group; retired senator Jerry Grafstein; Mordecai Bobrowsky, vice president, legal, Primaris Management Inc.; Lauren Corber, president & executive producer, LoCo Motion Pictures Affiliations: Meritas Law Firms Worldwide Firm history: Arthur Minden, Edwin Pivnick and Mor- ris Gross founded the firm in 1950. Early on, the firm gained a reputation for its skills in commercial real estate transactions. Jerry Grafstein and Herbert Greenstein joined in the 1960s and established corporate and civil litigation services to meet the grow- ing needs of clients. The firm expanded further into commercial leasing, bankruptcy and insolvency, tax and succession planning, employment and labour and wills and estates law. In 1992, Min- den Gross became an affiliate of Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, a global alliance of independent law firms. It has recently grown further, branching out into securities and capital markets as well as property taxation and assessment. "Lawyers are very knowledgeable and staff are really friendly." Total lawyers: 118 Lawyers by office: Toronto, 116; Ottawa, 2 Core practice areas: business law including corporate, securities, IP/IT; energy and environmental law; commercial real estate including condominium law and leasing; financial services; health law; Indigenous law, with a particular emphasis on busi- ness matters; litigation; labour and employment; tax and wills and estates Key clients: RioCan REIT; FirstService Corporation; Col- liers International Group Inc.; Coco Paving; Computershare; Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corp.; WeedMD; CannTrust; Toronto Parking Authority; TD, HSBC, RBC and other major banks Notable mandates: acted for Neo Performance Materials Inc. in its $200million IPO; R. v. Coco Paving Inc. brought success- ful due diligence defence and obtained dismissal of the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change prosecution of Coco Paving Inc. related to a 2013 natural gas line strike in Windsor, Ont.; acquisition, development, financing and sale of multiple utility scale solar projects for Canadian Solar; representation of both investment dealers and licensed producers for significant financings in the burgeoning medical cannabis industry, including CannTrust and WeedMD; in Re Imex Systems Inc. 2018, success- fully defended an application to set aside a private placement in the BC Securities Commission; representation of developers on significant condo and mixed-use projects including Art Shoppe Condos; representation of many Indigenous communities on large-scale energy and infrastructure partnerships Star alumni: Ed Sonshine, founder and CEO of RioCan REIT; Jay Hennick, founder and chairman of FirstService Corporation and CEO of Colliers International Group Inc.; Eugene McBur- ney, co-founder and chairman of Griffiths McBurney & Partners; Ontario Superior Court Justice Arthur Gans; Pinar Ozyetis, gener- al counsel at LoyaltyOne; Lesley Munk, vice president and general counsel at RSA Canada Affiliations: International Lawyers Network Firm history: Fogler Rubinoff, with 25 lawyers, was created in 1982 through a merger of the firms of Siegal Fogler and Rubinoff & Rubinoff. In the 37 years since the merger, the firm has more than quadrupled in size and has diversified its areas of practice, creating a full-service business law firm. "Same expertise for better valued rates than the big firms." TOP 10 ONTARIO REGIONAL FIRMS