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TORKIN MANES LLP TORKINMANES.COM total lawyers: 79 office: Toronto core practice areas: Corporate, including tax, banking, and insolvency; IT; litigation, including construction, health, estate, and insurance defence; commercial real estate; labour relations and employment law; family law Key clients: Apotex Inc.; Calloway REIT; Canada Goose Inc.; Imperial Coffee and Services Inc.; SmartCentres Inc.; Spin Master Ltd. Notable mandates: Represented the owners of CRS Contractors Rental Supply in connection with a sale of an interest in the business to Clairvest; acted on several acquisitions and related financing transactions for Spin Master Ltd.; represented Bailey Metal Products Ltd. in connection with the formation of a joint venture with CertainTeed; acted on applications to the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of representative plaintiffs in an American antitrust class action; represented a large group of physicians in negotiations with the Ontario government concerning hundreds of millions of dollars of OHIP payments. star alumni: David Butt, first Canadian prosecutor to specialize in Internet child abuse cases, legal director of Kinsa, and secretary of ECPAT International; Anne Giardini, president of Weyerhaeuser Canada, newspaper columnist, and novelist; Kimberley McVittie, CIBC ombudsman and chief privacy officer; Caroline Pinto, managing principal at Counsel Public Affairs Inc.; Michael Silver, mediator and arbitrator; Ian J. Tod, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. global managing partner for tax; Kathleen Waters, president and CEO, LawPRO; Jennifer Wood, senior legal counsel at Royal Bank of Canada; Ann Elise Alexander, senior counsel, CIBC legal department. affiliations: International Alliance of Law Firms the firm: Torkin Manes was founded in 1974 by Larry Torkin and Ron Manes, who declined offers from Seven Sister firms in order to form their own partnership. The firm grew to six lawyers in 1979 and developed practices in real We are a full-service business law rm that combines estate, employment, and family law. LitiBay Street experience with leadership, teamwork and value. gation has expanded, to include insurance defence in addition to specialty Thanks to our clients, our referral sources and our people, areas such as health, construction, and we have grown into a rm that appreciates your unique challenges, medical malpractice. Most of the growth has been internal; more than 40 per cent has a right-sized approach to service and can build a team that's… of Torkin Manes' lawyers articled with the firm and partners tend to stay there. "Torkin Manes is very responsive and efficient," said one survey respondent. If this sounds like the right t for you, TM Managing partner Jeffrey Cohen says: you've discovered Right-sized Thinking . "We're an open-door, friendly environment. We'll very often sacrifice shortterm profit to allow lawyers to develop a practice area. By continuing to hire people internally we allow ourselves to perpetuate the culture." Torkin Manes wants to continue to be a Toronto/OntarBusiness Law • Commercial Litigation • Commercial Real Estate io-based firm "that understands the playConstruction • Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring Labour & Employment • Wills, Estates & Trusts ing field and has extensive networks and relationships in the province." NOT TOO BIG. NOT TOO SMALL. JUST RIGHT 40 ntitled-2 1 September 2013 www.CANADIAN L a w ye r m a g . c o m 13-08-09 12:13 PM 6

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