Stikeman Elliott
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| Headquarters | CIBC Tower Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| No. of offices | 8 |
| No. of attorneys | approx. 500 |
| No. of employees | approx. 1300 (500 lawyers) |
| Major practice areas | Corporate Law |
| Key people | H. Heward Stikeman & Fraser Elliott |
| Date founded | 1952 (Montreal) |
| Founder | H. Heward Stikeman & Fraser Elliott |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | www.stikeman.com |
Stikeman Elliott LLP is a Canadian corporate law firm. It is known as one of the "seven sisters" in Toronto[1] and has approximately 500 lawyers in five Canadian offices as well as offices in New York, London, and Sydney.[2] It was founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott.[3]
History of the firm
Stikeman Elliott's history as a law firm began in 1952, when Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott established a tax boutique firm in Montreal. The firm expanded throughout the ensuing years, eventually becoming one of the largest full-service business law firms in Canada. Notably, this growth has come exclusively through the hiring of new lawyers or laterals from other firms - Stikeman Elliott has never merged with another firm, one of the few Bay Street firms to not do so.[4]
Areas of practice
- Aboriginal Law
- Banking & Lending
- Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
- Communications
- Competition & Foreign Investment
- Construction
- Corporate Finance & Securities
- Corporate Governance / Directors & Officers
- Emissions Trading & Climate Change
- Employment & Labour
- Energy
- Environmental
- Executive Compensation
- Financial Services
- Financial Services Regulatory
- Forestry & Forest Products
- Government Relations
- Hospitality
- Intellectual Property
- International Arbitration
- International Private Client & Tax Policy
- International Trade
- Insurance & Reinsurance
- Investment Funds
- Life Sciences & Healthcare
- Litigation / Class Actions
- Manufacturing & Distribution
- Maritime, Aviation and Transportation
- Media, Entertainment & Sports
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining
- Outsourcing
- Pension & Benefits
- Plan Nord
- Privacy & Data Protection
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Project Development & Finance
- Real Estate & Municipal
- REITs
- Retail
- Structured Finance & Financial Products
- Tax
- Technology
- White Collar & Regulatory Crisis Response
Notable lawyers and alumni
- David Brown, Judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario
- Allan Gotlieb, Canadian ambassador to the United States from 1981 to 1989
- Donald Johnston, former federal cabinet minister and served as Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1996 to 2006
- Antonio Lamer, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; Senior Counsel (2000-2007)
- Dick Pound, former VP of the IOC and former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency and author of Stikeman Elliott: the first fifty years (McGill-Queen's Press, 2002)[5]
- John Sopinka, Former puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
- John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
Career Programs
Stikeman Elliott offers a summer student program and a law articling student program.[6]