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As lawyers and strategic partners to our clients, we deliver real-time legal solutions tailored to each and every challenge. Everything you need from a lawyer.
Our Expertise
Our expertise is diverse. At all levels of court, in all manner of transactions and across all industries, we make law work for clients.
- Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
- Banking & Financial Services
- Business Law
- Employment & Labour
- Franchising Law
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Municipal, Land Use Planning & Development Law
- Municipal & Insurance Litigation
- Real Estate
- Technology & Intellectual Property
- Wills, Trusts & Estates
- All Expertise
Business is not always certain. When faced with uncertainty, our clients trust us to deliver creative, practical, results-driven solutions, designed to unlock and maximize value in distressed scenarios.
Read moreOur Banking & Financial Services group currently acts for over 40 domestic and foreign lenders, including all six Schedule I banks, numerous credit unions, insurance companies, trust companies, mortgage investment corporations, investment funds and various private lenders.
Read moreBusiness moves fast. We do too. In the boardroom, in the field, online and around the world, we pride ourselves on being a strategic partner to our clients and delivering tailored legal solutions to make law work at the speed of business.
Read moreManaging work, for Management. Employees make business work. We work with management to navigate Canada’s ever-changing labour and employment landscape, ensuring the best possible result in every negotiation and dispute.
Read moreWe provide a broad range of legal services for franchisors, individual franchisees, groups of franchisees and franchise associations. Our seasoned lawyers draw on many years of experience in franchise law, and a deep understanding of the complexities of the legal and business relationship created by the franchisor and franchisee, including the enforcement of the rights afforded to either party through either the court system or legal proceedings.
Read moreWe advocate to win. Every time. Legal disputes have many angles. We balance the issues, the costs and the benefits, to provide our clients with real-time options and secure the best outcome in every case.
Read moreThere is no substitute for experience. Our long tenure as a leading firm for municipal, land use planning and development law stems from a combination of our experience in government law as well as commercial real estate, construction, public-private partnerships and their related financial structures.
Read moreUnique Issues. One-of-a-Kind Advocacy. With a quarter century of experience serving municipalities and litigating insurance matters, we get public law and insurance disputes like no one else.
Read moreA cornerstone of business. From the ground up. Legal issues concerning real property can make or break a business, and those issues are diverse. In any sector – commercial, industrial, retail or vacant land – we deliver the legal foundation to take our clients to new heights.
Read moreIn an ever-evolving industry, we deliver a constant: real-time legal solutions. From technology M&A and licensing, to managing patent, trademark and copyright portfolios, to enforcing IP rights, to that first “lighting strike” of an idea, we empower our client’s innovation.
Read moreThe planning and administration of wills, estates, and trusts is an increasingly complex area and a comprehensive estate plan is essential in order to ensure that assets and business interests are protected in the event of death or incapacity.The members of our Wills, Trusts & Estates Group work closely with our clients and their other professional advisors to develop a customized estate plan and to provide a full range of sophisticated legal and planning advice. Our goal is to help our clients arrange their personal and business affairs in the most efficient and advantageous manner possible.Focusing on both long-term estate planning requirements as well as ongoing family-related concern...
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Client Successes
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OLT Decision Clears The Way For Cemetery Development
Municipal, Land Use Planning & Development Law
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Fastfrate Group and Roynat Inc. close significant infrastructure financing
Banking & Financial Services
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Milton Hydro Distribution Inc. v. Corporation of the Town of Milton, S.C.C No. 40939 (leave to appeal from 2023 ONCA 529)
Municipal & Insurance Litigation
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NJS Sherbourne Inc. v. Toronto (City) (OLT-21-001365)
Municipal, Land Use Planning & Development Law
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Deal Updates: Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity
Mergers and Acquisition
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Deal Updates: Securities & Capital Markets
Securities
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Deal Updates: Secured Lending, Banking and Financial Services
Banking & Financial Services
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Deal Updates: Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers and Acquisition
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Featured Insights
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Loopstra Nixon LLP Makes its Mark on Bay Street
Firm Expands into the Financial District with New Office and the Addition of Litigation Partner, Jason Beitchman
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Fastfrate Group announces majority acquisition of Challenger Group
We are pleased to be acting for our long-time client Consolidated Fastfrate Inc. in regard to its strategic acquisition of the Challenger Transport Group of Companies. This is a major and transformative transaction for CFI and it has involved and will continue to involve significant effort internally at the firm. The Loopstra Nixon Team led by Sand...
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Hamilton Spectator: Fate of proposed Burlington condos now in hands of OMB
Jul 21, 2017 by John Bkila Hamilton SpectatorDoes The Nautique, 26-story mixed-used condo proposal on Martha Street represent over intensification in Burlington's downtown, or is it an appropriate response to a provincially-mandated growth plan?That's what the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) is tasked with deciding after a 10-day heari...
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Statutory Starting Points, Tortious Roots
"The rule that ‘the King can do no wrong’ has been changed to ‘the King can do only little wrongs’ the big wrongs still being immune from ordinary tort liability." - Mr. Justice Linden1IntroductionThe face of municipal liability has changed considerably since Mr. Justice Linden wrote the passage above. The cumulative effect of recent statutory...
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Most Recent
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Quinto Annibale to Receive 2024 Heart & Hand Award
We are pleased to congratulate Loopstra Nixon Partner, Quinto Annibale who has been named one of the recipients of the 2024 Heart & Hand Awards.Presented by Villa Charities Foundation, the awards ...
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Unlocking Housing: New Planning Act Regulations Introduced
In recent weeks, the Province of Ontario (the “Province”) has introduced two proposed regulations intended to further incentivize the construction of new housing.On September 16, 2024, the Province in...
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Loopstra Nixon Achieves Midsize Mansfield Certification Plus Status for 2023–2024
We are proud to announce that Loopstra Nixon has earned the Midsize Mansfield Certified Plus designation for the 2023–2024 cycle. Building on our 2023 achievement as the first Canadian-headquartered m...
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