From incorporating new businesses to managing cross-border acquisitions, Ottawa’s legal community has the international expertise to make sense of a challenging and sophisticated business climate. Key services include ‘friends and family’ and cross-border venture financing; Initial Public Offerings; multinational research partnerships; and intellectual property rights.

A Sample of Law Firms in Ottawa

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Business/securities, litigation, employment, communications, intellectual property and technology, computer and IT, real estate, insolvency and creditors’ rights, regulatory.

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Full service law firm.

BrazeauSeller LLP
Tax and estate planning, e-business and cyber law, intellectual property, corporate and commercial, litigation, employment and labour, real estate.

Burke-Robertson Barristers & Solicitors LLP
Full service law firm.

Emond Harnden
Management-side labour and employment law.

Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
Aboriginal, corporate/commercial, e-commerce, employment & labour, energy regulatory, environmental law, financial services, government relations, intellectual property & technology, litigation, M&As, public law, securities, private client services, trademarks/copyrights, real estate, wills & trusts.

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Full service law firm plus business law, IP, advocacy, tech, e-business, IP, M&As, VC financing, insolvency, restructuring, lending, recovery services, employment, immigration, environmental, professional/product liability, insurance, administrative and public, family, government relations.

LaBarge Weinstein
Business law, corporate, taxation, financing, mergers & acquisitions, securities, technology and licensing.

Lang Michener
Full service law firm plus Supreme Court advocacy, international trade, IT, government relations, insurance defence.

Low, Murchison
Full service law firm except criminal law.

Macera & Jarzyna LLP
All areas of Intellectual Property law including patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial design and related litigation.

Marusyk Miller & Swain LLP/MBM & Co.
All aspects of IP law including patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial design, trade secrets, licensing, audits/due diligence, portfolio management and related litigation.

McCarthy Tétrault
Corporate/business law, litigation, employment law, real property.

Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP
Full service law firm including employment, business law, privacy, litigation, intellectual property, technology, condominium, real estate and development, labour, public law and regulatory affairs, estate planning/administration, family.

Ogilvy Renault
Business law, civil litigation, labour and employment law, intellectual property law.

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Full service business law firm providing services in areas including technology, intellectual property, communications, biotechnology, corporate finance, e-commerce, employment law, government relations/procurement, international trade, litigation, mergers & acquisitions, privacy and tax.

Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP
Full service law firm.

Smart & Biggar
All areas of intellectual property and technology law, including licensing, counterfeit and anti-piracy enforcement, technology transfers, R&D agreements, trade secrets, internet, IP asset valuation.

Soloway Wright LLP
Estate planning and administration, business: debt/equity financing, insolvency/receivership, leasing/franchising, competition, corporate and contract, tax, labour/employment, real estate, municipal, litigation.

Stikeman Elliott
Full service law firm.