Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is one of Canada’s largest business law firms practising nationally and internationally from its offices in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, and New York. It is one of Bay Street's "seven sisters". Clients include industry and business leaders in all segments of the market and at various stages in the growth of their businesses. With over 470 lawyers, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is one of the country’s ten largest law firms, and is one of only two Canadian firms ranked top tier in five of six categories in the 2011 edition of IFLR 1000: The Guide to the Leading Financial Law Firms. Clients are quoted as saying that Osler is an “outstanding firm and the lawyers give exceptional service,” in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2011.
In 2011, the firm ranked first in the Thomson Reuters league tables for Canadian mergers and acquisitions, advising on more dollars-worth of announced deals than any of its domestic competitors in the first nine-months of 2011. In all, Osler’s lawyers were retained for 49 Canadian deals worth a total of $24-billion (U.S.), or 21 per cent of the new market.
began practicing law in Dundas
, Ontario
. He would later move to Toronto to join D’Alton McCarthy’s Toronto partnership, subsequently known as McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin and Creelman. The firm quickly became one of the leading lights of Toronto’s legal world, with Osler himself acting in some of the highest profile criminal trials of the day, including the Treason
Trial of Louis Riel
in 1885, in which he helped lead the prosecution.
Britton Bath Osler died in 1900, and the firm would eventually in 1916 adopt the name Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt which is the name it continues to be known by to this day.
100 King Street West
1 First Canadian Place
Suite 6100, P.O. Box 50
Toronto ON M5X 1B8
Tel: 416.362.2111
Fax: 416.862.6666
MONTREAL
1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
Suite 2100
Montréal QC H3B 4W5
Tel: 514.904.8100
Fax: 514.904.8101
CALGARY
Suite 2500
TransCanada Tower
450 - 1st St. S.W.
Calgary AB T2P 5H1
Tel: 403.260.7000
Fax: 403.260.7024
OTTAWA
Suite 1900
340 Albert Street
Ottawa ON K1R 7Y6
Tel: 613.235.7234
Fax: 613.235.2867
NEW YORK
620 8th Avenue
36th Floor
New York, NY 10018
USA
Tel: 212.867.5800
Fax: 212.867.5802
In 2011, the firm ranked first in the Thomson Reuters league tables for Canadian mergers and acquisitions, advising on more dollars-worth of announced deals than any of its domestic competitors in the first nine-months of 2011. In all, Osler’s lawyers were retained for 49 Canadian deals worth a total of $24-billion (U.S.), or 21 per cent of the new market.
History
The firm was founded in 1862 when Britton Bath OslerBritton Bath Osler
Britton Bath Osler was a Canadian lawyer and prosecutor.The older of three famous brothers , he was born in Bond Head, Canada West. His father, Featherstone Lake Osler , the son of a shipowner at Falmouth, Cornwall, was a former Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and served on H.M.S...
began practicing law in Dundas
Dundas
Dundas may refer to:Places* Dundas, Greenland* Dundas, Minnesota, United States* Dundas, New Brunswick, Canada* Dundas, New South Wales, Australia* Dundas, Ontario, Canada* Dundas, Tasmania, Australia* Dundas, Wisconsin, United States...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
. He would later move to Toronto to join D’Alton McCarthy’s Toronto partnership, subsequently known as McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin and Creelman. The firm quickly became one of the leading lights of Toronto’s legal world, with Osler himself acting in some of the highest profile criminal trials of the day, including the Treason
Treason
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a...
Trial of Louis Riel
Louis Riel
Louis David Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation Prime Minister, Sir John A....
in 1885, in which he helped lead the prosecution.
Britton Bath Osler died in 1900, and the firm would eventually in 1916 adopt the name Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt which is the name it continues to be known by to this day.
Areas of Practice
The firm has a diverse range of practice areas:- Asia
- Banking and Financial Services
- Climate Change and Emissions Trading
- Competition/Antitrust
- Corporate Finance and Securities
- Corporate Governance
- Employment and Labour Law
- Environmental, Regulatory and Aboriginal
- Executive Compensation
- Income Funds and REITs
- Intellectual Property
- International Trade
- Insolvency and Restructuring
- Latin America
- Litigation
- Marketing and Distribution
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Municipal
- Nightlife Law
- Outsourcing
- Pensions and Benefits
- Privacy
- Project Finance
- Public - Private Partnerships / Alternative Financing and Procurement
- Real Estate
- Regulatory Investigations
- Research
- Taxation
- Translation
- Trusts and Estates
- U.S./Cross-Border
Offices
TORONTO100 King Street West
1 First Canadian Place
Suite 6100, P.O. Box 50
Toronto ON M5X 1B8
Tel: 416.362.2111
Fax: 416.862.6666
MONTREAL
1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
Suite 2100
Montréal QC H3B 4W5
Tel: 514.904.8100
Fax: 514.904.8101
CALGARY
Suite 2500
TransCanada Tower
450 - 1st St. S.W.
Calgary AB T2P 5H1
Tel: 403.260.7000
Fax: 403.260.7024
OTTAWA
Suite 1900
340 Albert Street
Ottawa ON K1R 7Y6
Tel: 613.235.7234
Fax: 613.235.2867
NEW YORK
620 8th Avenue
36th Floor
New York, NY 10018
USA
Tel: 212.867.5800
Fax: 212.867.5802