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Nathan Boidman, Guy Du Pont and David W. Smith, Q.C., have been recognized by the Best Lawyers Directory as “Lawyers of the Year” for 2010.
Only a single lawyer in each practice area and community, is honoured as the “Lawyer of the Year”. The qualities on which leading lawyers are assessed include legal ability, professionalism and integrity. Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Davies ranked #1 in Mergers & Acquisitions by Chambers Global 2010. 38 Davies lawyers were profiled as leading lawyers by Chambers Global 2010: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Davies was recognized as a leading Canadian firm across nine practice areas: Corporate / M&A, Competition & Antitrust, Public Private Partnerships, Tax, Banking & Finance, Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, Restructuring and Energy & Natural Resources. The qualities on which leading lawyers are assessed include legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness, diligence, and commitment to the client. Click here view the firm's rankings on-line. The 2010 LEXPERT®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada profiled 28 lawyers and ranks Davies' as the leading Canadian firm for corporate transactions (including banking, competition law, corporate commercial law, corporate finance & securities, corporate tax and mergers & acquisitions), relative to firm size. Davies' tax practice is ranked by the 2010 LEXPERT®/American Lawyer Media Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada as the leading practice in Montréal and in the top three in Toronto. The 2010 Best Lawyers, Canada Directory recognizes 67 Davies lawyers as Leading Lawyers in practice categories that include Banking Law, Competition/Antitrust Law, Class Action Litigation, Corporate/Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Director & Office Liability, Derivatives Law, Environmental Law, Equipment Law, Gaming Law, Insolvency & Financial Restructuring, International Arbitration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Finance Law, Public Finance Law, Real Estate Law, Securities Law, Structured Finance Law, Tax Law, Trusts & Estates. The 2010 IFLR 1000 - Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms recognizes Davies' M&A practice as tier one and states "While megadeals have disappeared from the market, the expertise harboured at Davies has not. Peers still regard the firm's M&A group as one of the most capable in Canada." Additional rankings include:
Legal Media Group's 2009 Expert Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers have ranked 33 Davies partners as leaders in their fields, across 15 areas of practice. Davies' Competition & Foreign Investment Review Group has been profiled in the 2009 GCR 100 as one of the top competition practices in the world, as selected by Global Competition Review. Davies has been recognized as a Go-To Law Firm by the 2009 ALM reference guide Go-To Law Firms of the World's Leading Companies, in the category of Corporate Transactions / Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities. World Finance magazine has named William M. Ainley Best M&A Lawyer in Canada. The award is part of the 2009 World Finance Awards, which is given to those demonstrating innovation and originality, market leadership and the ability to keep ahead of the competition. Davies was a significant player in 3 of the Top 10 Canadian Corporate Deals and in 2 of the top 10 Business Cases of 2009 as reported in the January 2010 issue of Lexpert® Magazine. The 2009 Canadian Legal LEXPERT® Directory profiled 49 Davies lawyers, 29 of whom have achieved a ranking of the highest level in at least one area of specialization. The firm was also recognized as "Most Frequently Recommended" in the following nine practice areas: Competition, Corporate/Commercial, Corporate Finance & Securities, Derivative Instruments, Litigation – Corporate/Commercial, Litigation – Securities, M&A, Property Development and Tax. Additional Lexpert rankings:
2009 PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook profiles 37 lawyers and rates Davies as the leading firm in the areas of Competition/Antitrust, Corporate / M&A, Environmental, Private Equity and Tax. 2009 Martindale Hubbell ranks 43 Davies lawyers with their highest rating (AV) peer review rating. Davies is ranked 20th by Bloomberg's M&A Legal Advisory League Table rankings for worldwide global announced deals in 2008.
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