Over the course of our firm’s history, we’ve had the privilege to work with many of Canada’s chartered banks, trust companies, mezzanine lenders and other financial institutions.

Our lawyers advise lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured credit transactions, asset-based financing transactions, construction and real estate development lending, acquisition loans, complex banking transactions, and compliance issues.

We act for borrowers ranging from small family-run businesses to large public companies with global operations. Our experienced lawyers bring a business-minded, practical approach to each transaction, with the drive and focus to effectively manage your risk and efficiently get the deal done on your schedule.

Environmental liability affects every business, regardless of size. For many, this has become a central risk management issue, requiring experienced, knowledgeable advice to guide companies through increasingly complicated regulations.

Members of our team have extensive experience across the broad spectrum of environmental law, from compliance advice, transactions to litigation. We also manage environmental due diligence related to the sale, acquisition, and financing of real property transactions.

We have carried out major engagements with municipalities, energy proponents, small to medium-sized companies, mining companies, First Nations, public interest groups, and residents.

Our Environmental lawyers have been counsel in precedent-setting litigation before courts and tribunals. Key areas of our environmental expertise include:

Environmental Litigation

Environmental issues may lead to civil claims and/or various regulatory proceedings including orders and quasi-criminal enforcement actions. Our subject-matter expertise allows us to represent clients in all forms of environmental litigation proceedings including:

Assessments Approvals and Permitting

We advise on navigating regulatory processes efficiently and effectively from planning through to approval including:

Brownfields Redevelopment and Contaminated Sites

Environmental statutes cast the widest possible net of liability for clients who have real property interests. Risk assessment and management is critical to limiting exposure.
We advise and assist with all aspects of Brownfields Redevelopment and Contaminated Sites issues including:

The healthcare sector is going through seismic changes and our team is here to help participants in the health care and health services sectors navigate the current regulatory environment. 

We work with our clients as regulatory lawyers, and also as their strategic advisers,  litigators, and dealmakers. We provide counsel to participants in the health care and health services sectors, including:

Whether you are a health professional or representative of a health institution or a regulatory body, you’ll appreciate our commitment and focus on providing exceptional service in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Our health law services include a representation of:

Our immigration team provides expertise in a broad range of business and individual immigration applications.

We work with our clients to deliver high-quality, cost-effective and efficient solutions in all areas of the complex and evolving area of Canadian citizenship and immigration regulatory requirements. Our immigration law services include:

We are pleased to have as our immigration counsel Immi Sikand of Sikand Law, which firm provides a broad range of immigration services for individuals and businesses. Immi is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Citizenship and Immigration Law. She can be reached at 647.875.2114 or by email @ [email protected].

Our firm’s Indigenous Practice Group brings with it a depth of experience in advising Indigenous clients on a broad range of matters, including providing advice and acting in disputes concerning the assertion of inherent jurisdiction and other Indigenous and treaty rights; setting up effective business structures that facilitate the expansion of a community’s economic development; aboriginal and treaty rights advocacy; and consultations with government and industry.

Our team of lawyers has developed innovative legal structures and frameworks for, and successfully represented, groups of Indigenous communities across the country who wish to work together to pursue business opportunities, including through limited partnerships, joint ventures, corporations and trusts. We help our Indigenous clients manage existing and incoming assets, and offer advice and guidance on governance models that reflect and respond to our clients’ priorities.

First Nations across the country turn to us for strategic guidance on:

Members of our group work with our First Nation clients to develop and implement sound governance policies, institutions and practices which reflect the interests, priorities and objectives of their communities. 

The laws, policies and codes which we have developed for our clients have proven capable of supporting some of the largest economic development projects undertaken on reserve land in Canada, and have provided the legal basis for entirely new forms of governance and environmental protection institutions which successfully carry indigenous value systems and decision-making processes forward into modern business and governance activities.

We strive at all times to identify our clients’ objectives and we respond accordingly by helping our clients overcome their challenges and achieve their goals. The Indigenous Practice Group understands the unique circumstances and complexities of Indigenous affairs and the dynamic relation between the various parties. We anticipate potential problems, employ techniques to avoid them and find creative solutions to overcome them.

Our experienced team handles complex restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors’ rights matters, regularly working to improve our clients’ financial and collateral positions.

We advise on all types of insolvency and restructuring matters, including debt collection, privately appointed receiverships and court appointed receiverships to proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (BIA) and Companies’ Creditors Arrangement (CCAA) Acts.

To avoid bankruptcy, we often assist and advise debtors (including corporations, partnerships and individuals) regarding their “restructuring” or “reorganization” options under the proposal provisions of the BIA and the CCAA and other applicable statutes of Ontario and Canada. We have also acted for Proposal Trustees, Receivers and Monitors under various applicable Provincial and Federal legislation. In particular, we have advised the following:

Our experience allows us to represent the interests of various stakeholders in restructuring and insolvency situations and we regularly offer restructuring and insolvency advice in industries such as retail, automotive, health care, transportation, railway, airline, general manufacturing, communications, mining, travel and insurance.

Our dedicated team of IP professionals immerse themselves in our clients’ technologies and industries, and clients benefit from our interdisciplinary and commercially-focused approach to matters.

We help our clients  meet all of their trademark, patent, industrial design and copyright requirements. From the legal clearance of trademarks of all types, patentability and validity searches and patent drafting, through the registration process, through the enforcement of trademark, patent, industrial design and copyright rights in trademark opposition proceedings and litigation, our expertise provides our clients with the ability to react quickly and the know-how to secure the necessary protection effectively and efficiently.

We offer creative solutions to clients whether they require the management of a sizeable portfolio of IP assets, whether they are embarking on an acquisition or licensing program, or whether they own a small number of trademarks, logos, slogans, patents or designs which are central to their success in the marketplace. Our approach focuses on the needs of our clients, and provides flexibility to meet the brand-centred demands of the marketplace and the need to protect innovative technology.

At Fogler, Rubinoff LLP, our litigators explore every avenue to resolve our clients’ most critical disputes with strategies that balance advocacy and pragmatism.

We view matters through the lens of our clients’ business objectives, drawing on the substantial experience of our firm across all major industry sectors. Our approach has created a long track record of success for our clients, from motion practice to strategic settlements, trials and on appeal. 

When business and commercial disputes can’t be resolved through simple negotiation, we are positioned to take matters to the next level. Our litigators are problem-solvers, using the legal system – whether through mediation, settlement or going all the way to trial – as the means through which we achieve creative yet practical results for our clients.

Specialized groups within the litigation department provide advice and advocacy in civil, quasi-criminal and administrative proceedings. We are committed to a client-centred and practical approach to address your litigation needs. Our lawyers prepare and outline strategies offering imaginative, creative and ‘out-of-the-box’ advice to achieve an early and favourable resolution of disputes. If settlement is not possible, our experienced lawyers and sophisticated support facilities allow us to forcefully advocate on our clients’ behalf throughout the litigation process.

We work with our clients to develop commercially reasonable solutions to problem transactions and situations, including the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.

We work closely with clients as they plan and develop their commercial, industrial, condominium and residential real estate projects.

Our familiarity with all aspects of conveyancing and zoning, our committed participation in community affairs, and our experience in government and the administrative process give us the know-how to solve your real estate problems effectively and efficiently. We can advise and act for you on the entire development approval process, including:

Personal information and business data are increasingly valuable but inherently risky assets that are protected by both technological and legal safeguards.

These safeguards are in flux given fast-changing technology, evolving privacy and data protection laws, and ever-escalating cybersecurity threats – the latter recently resulting in massive privacy and data breaches at government departments and market-leading brands in the retail, ISP and financial services sectors.

Businesses facing privacy and data protection challenges require expert legal advisors who provide innovative and practical solutions. Our multi-disciplinary privacy and data protection team includes client-and-peer-ranked leading and technologically-savvy business, regulatory and litigation lawyers, some of whom are also trained as engineers.

The experience and services of our lawyers covers the full spectrum of risk mitigation, incident response and dispute resolution and includes advising on:

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