At Davies, our focus is on business law. We act for a wide range of leading industrial and commercial companies and financial institutions, both public and private, in Canada, the United States and abroad.
Some notable transactions and cases that Davies has been involved with recently include:
- BHP Billiton bid to acquire Rio Tinto Group
- Xstrata Plc acquisition of Falconbridge Ltd.
- Private equity partners acquisition agreement for Kinder Morgan Inc.
- Brookfield Properties Corporation acquisition of Trizec Canada Inc. and Trizec Properties, Inc.
- Barrick Gold Corp. offer for NovaGold Resources Inc.
- U.S. funds managers v. Sears Holdings Corp. in connection with opposition to take-over of Sears Canada Inc.
- Barrick Gold Corp. acquisition of Placer Dome Inc.
- China National Petroleum Company acquisition of Petro Kazakhstan Inc.
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co. acquisition of Masonite International Corp.
- Metro Inc. acquisition of A&P Canada
- Telesystem International Wireless Inc. acquisition of Vodafone
- Option Consommateurs v. Novopharm
We have never pursued growth for its own sake. Our focus is on business law – and limiting ourselves to practice areas where we can be best-in-class.
Core Practice Areas:
- Commercial Real Estate
- Competition & Foreign Investment Review
- Corporate/Commercial
- Corporate Finance & Securities
- Litigation
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Structured Finance
- Taxation
- Trusts & Estates
Cross Practice & Sector Teams:
- Corporate Governance
- Cross-Border and Multi-Jurisdictional Transactions
- Environmental
- Financial Restructuring & Insolvency
- Life Sciences
- Private Equity
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Technology
Davies is consistently ranked by independent rating agencies as a market leader in each of the firm's core practice areas.
Ranked by Lexpert as Top Corporate Law Firm, relative to firm size, in both Toronto and Montréal
- Highest per capita deal value of any major Canadian law firm in 2005 based on both Bloomberg and Thomson Financial legal advisory rankings
- Highest concentration of lawyers in both Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers and Lexpert/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
- Consistently recognized in:
- Euromoney Legal Media Group Expert Guides
- Global Counsel 3000
- IFLR 1000 Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms
The rankings reflect our focus and depth of talent - attracting and retaining lawyers at all experience levels who have the ability and the motivation to be among the very best in their chosen fields of practice.
All Law Firms are NOT Created Equal
- High-end transactional practice
- Limited to practice areas where we can be best-in-class
- Conservative growth based on consistent quality
- Highest concentration of top ranked lawyers
- Highest ratio of partners to associates
- Strong culture based on excellence and teamwork
- High degree of autonomy
- Highly integrated
- Highly collaborative
- Unique reward system
- Subjective peer review, not based on billable hours
- Promotes teamwork, excellence
- Aligns firm and client interests
- Does not reward hoarding clients, padding bills, overstaffing files
- Internal competition and self-promotion are not tolerated
- Global reach
- Committed to our clients to provide maximum value through the most efficient and effective delivery of legal services
