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SASKATCHEWAN 3 McDougall Gauley LLP Total lawyers: 73 Offices: Saskatoon, 38; Regina, 34; Moose Jaw, 1 Core practice areas: Litigation, including complex commercial, class actions, and insurance defence; corporate-commercial; insol- vency and restructuring; banking and financial services; labour and employment. Key clients: Royal Bank of Canada, Saskatchewan Power Corp., Enbridge Pipelines Inc., CitiFinancial Canada, John Deere Ltd., Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. Notable mandates: Steered class action litigation for Monsanto Canada Inc., Hollinger International Inc., Imperial Oil Ltd., Telus Corp., BCE, and Pfizer Canada Inc.; represented Royal Bank of Canada at the Supreme Court of Canada in Royal Bank v. Radius Credit Union Ltd.; representing the monitor in the CCAA restructuring of Meadow Lake Pulp Ltd.; advised Investment Saskatchewan Inc. on the sale of its 50-per-cent share of Saskferco Products Inc. to Yara International ASA in a $1.6-billion transac- Robertson Stromberg Pedersen LLP 4 Total lawyers: 22 Office: Saskatoon Core practice areas: Mining and energy, insolvency and restructur- ing, complex litigation, urban development and construction, profes- sional regulation. Key clients: Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., Canpotex Ltd., Scotiabank, Northland Power Inc., Saputo Dairy Products Canada GP, Chartis Insurance Co. of Canada. Notable mandates: Counsel for the successful appellant at the Supreme Court of Canada in Housen v. Nikolaisen; counsel for Potash Corp. in matters relating to the expansion of its Rocanville mine; represented senior creditors in a series of CCAA proceedings that restructured the pork industry in Saskatchewan; counsel for Northland Power Inc. in the development and construction of two gas-powered electrical generating plants; counsel for Great Western Diamonds Corp. in the recent acquisition of the Brazilian operations of Santa Elina Mines Corp. Star alumni: Saskatchewan attorney general and Supreme Court of Canada justice J. W. Estey; University of Saskatchewan College of Law founding dean Arthur Moxon. Affiliations: The ARC Group Canada The firm: Tracing its roots back to the firm of Estey Schmitt & Moxon, Robertson Stromberg Pedersen took its present form in the 1980s under the guidance of Robert Stromberg. He helped position the firm for its involvement in the privatizations of the potash and uranium industries, which the firm has used as a springboard to fos- ter solid relationships with international and national clients. One of this firm's clients praised it for its lawyers' "ability to advise using common sense and straightforward thinking, and a commit- ment to excellent work." 42 OCTO BER 2011 www. CANADIAN Lawyermag.com tion; currently representing Potash Corp. in its case against The Mosaic Co., disputing the terms of their supply contract. Star alumni: Saskatchewan lieutenant governors George Brown and Frank Bastedo; Saskatchewan Court of Appeal justices Thomas Wakeling, Hector MacDonald, and Neal Caldwell; William Ready, chancellor of the University of Regina. Affiliations: Canadian Litigation Counsel The firm: Founded when Norman MacKenzie settled in Regina, N.W.T., in 1891. The firm has a history of developing partners from within, but major growth came in 2001 with the merger of McDougall Ready and Gauley & Co. Many of its present and former partners have held leadership roles in legal industry organizations, such as the Law Society of Saskatchewan, the CBA Saskatchewan branch, and Federation of Law Societies of Canada. One government lawyer praised the firm for "Excellence within the criminal field and a broader approach to civil litigation and family law. The breadth of the firm is exemplary." Kanuka Thuringer LLP 5 Total lawyers: 28 Offices: Regina, 24; Swift Current, 4 Core practice areas: Business law, energy and natural resources, financial services, construction, and trans- portation. Key clients: Local counsel for many oil and gas com- panies, ranging in size from large public companies to small private corporations; local counsel for a number of major financial institutions and financial service providers; represent hundreds of provincial, national, and international trucking, bus, rail, and courier com- panies. Notable mandates: Withheld Star alumni: Former Tax Court of Canada justice John Goetz, former Saskatchewan justice minister Bob Mitchell, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Duane Koch, late chief justice of Saskatchewan Edward Bayda. Affiliations: State Capital Global Law Firm Group The firm: In 1955, Murdoch Alexander MacPherson Jr. left his father's firm. He was soon joined by Melville Neuman and Robert Lorne Pierce. The group of men, all born and raised in Saskatchewan, founded the firm that would become Kanuka Thuringer LLP. It has since expanded to two offices, in Regina and Swift Current, serving clients throughout the province and beyond. "We are trying to add people all the time; internally, we've shifted people from some areas to others," says managing partner Keith Boyd, regarding the firm's response to the province's recent economic boom. "As much as we like the new mandates, we also have obligations to new clients. That's been our challenge — making sure we can accommodate that." (www .mcdougallgauley .com) (www .kanukathuringer .com) (www .thinkrsplaw .com)