Bennett Jones delivers an outstanding client experience, driven by its highly skilled lawyers’ deep knowledge of clients’ businesses and industries. Marking a century of service in 2022, Bennett Jones has evolved from a 10-lawyer office in Calgary to an internationally recognized premier business law firm.
The firm is respected for its wealth of expertise, as evidenced by its standings across many of Lexpert’s shell charts. Its lawyers were bestowed Grade AAA rankings in the Corporate, Litigation and Natural Resources Lawyers lists in Calgary, as well as in the Tax Lawyers list in Vancouver. The firm also landed the top ranking in the Corporate Transactions list in Calgary, followed by a Grade AA in the Tax and Labour Relations, Employment & Pensions Lawyers lists for the same city. Bennett Jones received solid Grade AA rankings in the Vancouver Corporate and Commercial Litigation Lawyers lists, as well as the Toronto Litigation and Natural Resources Lawyers lists.
Bennett Jones’ standing illustrates that across sectors, industries, and borders, the firm stands by its clients, embraces their vision, and delivers results. Able to solve the most complex legal matters, over its remarkable 100 years Bennett Jones has gained the trust of clients in Canada and around the world.
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Commercial Litigation
The disputes the firm acts on are as diverse as its clients, from shareholder disputes, loan enforcement, breach of contract, and bankruptcy litigation to libel and slander, professional negligence, and energy co-ownership and royalty disputes. The firm has an extremely strong Commercial List presence, in insolvency, fraud, corporate/M&A litigation and oppression. Bennett Jones has diverse expertise in various industries including the energy, mining, technology, securities, funds and finance, insolvency, and construction industries. The litigators work closely with colleagues throughout the firm to provide the exact expertise required for each client's needs, also tapping the resources of external experts such as accountants, forensic investigators, valuators, and other consultants when necessary.
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consecutive years as Canada’s Top Employer for Young People
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consecutive years as Best Employer in Canada
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The Bennett Jones Corporate practice advises and provides strategic counsel to international companies investing and operating in Canada, and Canadian companies growing domestically and internationally. The group's clients include many Canadian and global Fortune 500 companies in energy, oil and gas, mining, consumer products, technology, utilities, agribusiness, financial services, and cannabis, among others. Bennett Jones’ lawyers help clients assess, evaluate, and maintain their company organization and tax structures, advising on officer and director liability issues, negotiating and preparing documentation for contracts, agreements, and company financing transactions of all types, and counselling on business issues ranging from asset management to corporate expansion. The team also negotiates and drafts all necessary corporate agreements, such as partnership and shareholder agreements, and offers guidance and assistance when disputes among partners or shareholders arise.
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Toronto - Corporate Transactions Relative to Firm Size
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Litigation
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Natural Resources
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Bennett Jones' corporate tax practice provides sophisticated tax planning advice and creative, incisive approaches to stewarding tax-efficient transactions and solving tax controversies. The practice includes all aspects of sales tax, GST, anti-dumping, and other trade and commodity taxes. This commodity tax expertise is brought to bear both in connection with transactions involving cross-border flows of manufactured goods, financial services, and commodities, and in tax controversy work. The team plays a strategic role in the structuring and negotiation of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and all range of business ventures. The firm's tax lawyers have a broad range of significant experience on both the Canadian and cross-border aspects of transactions in the resource, manufacturing, financial services, communications, technology, real estate, transportation, and power sectors. Bennett Jones advises private equity investors, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds, and has been involved in the conversion of income trusts and royalty funds to corporate form.
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lawyers and advisors
6
offices across Canada and the US
20
consecutive years as Best Employer in Canada
9
consecutive years as Canada’s Top Employer for Young People
Bennett Jones is widely recognized as the leading Canadian law firm in energy and natural resources. The firm has the largest dedicated energy group in Canada, active in all sectors of the energy industry, including oil, gas, power, and renewables. Bennett Jones is familiar with the local, provincial, national, and international aspects of energy development, and all facets of corporate, commercial, litigation, tax, competition, trade, employment, OH&S, regulatory, and environmental law in that regard. The firm has experience with private consortia, design-builders, project sponsors, financiers, service providers, and aboriginal partners, providing a holistic perspective on any complex energy deal. Bennett Jones has been involved in virtually every major energy development project in Canada in the past 20 years, including several market “firsts.” From its roots as Canada’s premiere national law firm in oil and gas and energy infrastructure, Bennett Jones has become the go-to law firm for energy.
Bennett Jones is widely recognized as the leading Canadian law firm in energy and natural resources. The firm has the largest dedicated energy group in Canada, active in all sectors of the energy industry, including oil, gas, power, and renewables. Bennett Jones is familiar with the local, provincial, national, and international aspects of energy development, and all facets of corporate, commercial, litigation, tax, competition, trade, employment, OH&S, regulatory, and environmental law in that regard. The firm has experience with private consortia, design-builders, project sponsors, financiers, service providers, and aboriginal partners, providing a holistic perspective on any complex energy deal. Bennett Jones has been involved in virtually every major energy development project in Canada in the past 20 years, including several market “firsts.” From its roots as Canada’s premiere national law firm in oil and gas and energy infrastructure, Bennett Jones has become the go-to law firm for energy.
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Handling the most complex transactions, Bennett Jones is a go-to law firm for many corporates and private equity firms in Canada and the United States. Bennett Jones navigates significant public deals involving complex governance, capital markets, and shareholder and regulatory issues. The firm represents Canadian and US investment funds, financial sponsors, and their portfolio companies on mergers and acquisitions, public and private treasury investments, and the formation of private investment funds. It also advises boards and special committees in both friendly and contested transactions. The firm's understanding of the broader macroeconomic setting allows it to provide particular expertise and value to private M&A transactions and investments taking place inside or outside of Canada. The corporate M&A practice is highly integrated and draws on specialized experts in other areas affecting deal strategy and structure, including tax, competition/antitrust, foreign investment, customs and trade, real estate, intellectual property, employment, regulatory, and litigation.
Bennett Jones has been involved in some of the most important, groundbreaking, high-stakes litigation in Canadian history. Its lawyers appear before all levels of courts and administrative tribunals in Canada, bringing to each case a practical and thorough knowledge of litigation, mediation, and arbitration strategies, tactics, and procedures. The firm's work has resulted in hundreds of reported decisions from provincial trial and appeal courts, the Federal Court, the Tax Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as significant experience in private arbitrations and mediations, including ICC and AAA arbitrations. The litigation team has led exceptional trials as well as various traditional commercial actions and arbitrations on behalf of major corporations, governments, privately held enterprises, and individuals. The team offers a range of other specialized litigation services such as energy litigation, fraud, securities litigation, constitutional litigation, tax litigation, restructuring, class action litigation, competition/antitrust litigation, estates litigation, and health law.
Bennett Jones has one of the largest intellectual property groups in a full-service business law firm in Canada. In patent litigation, the firm is best known for its pharmaceutical, biologics, and energy expertise. It manages a portfolio of iconic trademarks for Canadian and global companies. The firm is regularly retained to assist clients with disputes arising from the misuse or misappropriation of intellectual property across a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences. Its lawyers are experienced in managing entire company portfolios, including registering trademarks, patents, copyrights, and designs; protecting trade secrets; conducting IP audits; and full-service litigation. The team advises on IP issues arising out of M&A transactions, joint ventures, and licensing matters; advertising and labelling; IP protection, enforcement, commercialization, and brand-building strategies across a wide range of industries; the management and commercialization of intellectual property; mechanical, biochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical and telecommunication technology; and life sciences regulatory.
Bennett Jones provides a focused, industry-sensitive approach to legal issues governing the development, acquisition, protection, exploitation, use, and enforcement of technology products and services worldwide. The firm helps clients protect and enforce underlying intellectual property rights that are fundamental to the use and exploitation of technologies. The lawyers also advise on the broad spectrum of issues governing business operations, regulation, financings, transactions, and IPOs, and negotiate, draft, and review agreements and licenses in connection with technology contracting of all types. A large portion of this work involves the negotiation and drafting of development, outsourcing, procurement, distribution, marketing, consulting, and e-commerce agreements for operators and purchasers of a wide range of equipment and services. Bennett Jones has substantial experience with structuring, drafting, and negotiating IT aspects of major mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and financing transactions. Its expertise in technology transactions includes cloud, fintech, AI, robotics, data management, energy technology, cleantech, and agtech.
Handling the most complex transactions, Bennett Jones is a go-to law firm for many corporates and private equity firms in Canada and the United States. Bennett Jones navigates significant public deals involving complex governance, capital markets, and shareholder and regulatory issues. The firm represents Canadian and US investment funds, financial sponsors, and their portfolio companies on mergers and acquisitions, public and private treasury investments, and the formation of private investment funds. It also advises boards and special committees in both friendly and contested transactions. The firm's understanding of the broader macroeconomic setting allows it to provide particular expertise and value to private M&A transactions and investments taking place inside or outside of Canada. The corporate M&A practice is highly integrated and draws on specialized experts in other areas affecting deal strategy and structure, including tax, competition/antitrust, foreign investment, customs and trade, real estate, intellectual property, employment, regulatory, and litigation.
Bennett Jones has one of the largest intellectual property groups in a full-service business law firm in Canada. In patent litigation, the firm is best known for its pharmaceutical, biologics, and energy expertise. It manages a portfolio of iconic trademarks for Canadian and global companies. The firm is regularly retained to assist clients with disputes arising from the misuse or misappropriation of intellectual property across a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences. Its lawyers are experienced in managing entire company portfolios, including registering trademarks, patents, copyrights, and designs; protecting trade secrets; conducting IP audits; and full-service litigation. The team advises on IP issues arising out of M&A transactions, joint ventures, and licensing matters; advertising and labelling; IP protection, enforcement, commercialization, and brand-building strategies across a wide range of industries; the management and commercialization of intellectual property; mechanical, biochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical and telecommunication technology; and life sciences regulatory.
Bennett Jones has been involved in some of the most important, groundbreaking, high-stakes litigation in Canadian history. Its lawyers appear before all levels of courts and administrative tribunals in Canada, bringing to each case a practical and thorough knowledge of litigation, mediation, and arbitration strategies, tactics, and procedures. The firm's work has resulted in hundreds of reported decisions from provincial trial and appeal courts, the Federal Court, the Tax Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as significant experience in private arbitrations and mediations, including ICC and AAA arbitrations. The litigation team has led exceptional trials as well as various traditional commercial actions and arbitrations on behalf of major corporations, governments, privately held enterprises, and individuals. The team offers a range of other specialized litigation services such as energy litigation, fraud, securities litigation, constitutional litigation, tax litigation, restructuring, class action litigation, competition/antitrust litigation, estates litigation, and health law.
Bennett Jones' corporate tax practice provides sophisticated tax planning advice and creative, incisive approaches to stewarding tax-efficient transactions and solving tax controversies. The practice includes all aspects of sales tax, GST, anti-dumping, and other trade and commodity taxes. This commodity tax expertise is brought to bear both in connection with transactions involving cross-border flows of manufactured goods, financial services, and commodities, and in tax controversy work. The team plays a strategic role in the structuring and negotiation of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and all range of business ventures. The firm's tax lawyers have a broad range of significant experience on both the Canadian and cross-border aspects of transactions in the resource, manufacturing, financial services, communications, technology, real estate, transportation, and power sectors. Bennett Jones advises private equity investors, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds, and has been involved in the conversion of income trusts and royalty funds to corporate form.