Dec. 19, 2024 - Despite a strong start to the year, activist activity in Canada in 2024 tapered to pre-pandemic levels. This reversion to more historic annual totals follows a notable resurgence of shareholder demands directed at Canadian public companies in 2023, when shareholder engagement reached its...
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Davies and 84 of the Firm’s Lawyers Highly Ranked in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2016
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2016 has profiled 84 Davies lawyers as leading practitioners, with 32 achieving the highest ranking of Most Frequently Recommended in at least one area of specialization. The firm is also recognized as Most Frequently Recommended in the following eight practice areas:
- Banking & Financial Institutions
- Competition Law
- Corporate Commercial Law
- Corporate Finance & Securities
- Corporate Tax
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Project Finance
- Project Development
Considered the pre-eminent directory of legal practitioners in Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory ranks individual lawyers across 64 areas of expertise and firms in over 40 practice areas. Recommendations for lawyers in the annual publication are the product of an extensive peer review process, with firm rankings tabulated from the cumulative rankings of individuals within each practice area reviewed.
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