Osler’s National Litigation team recognized at the Benchmark Canada Awards 2021

Osler is proud to announce that our National Litigation team has been recognized at the 2021 Benchmark Canada Awards. We congratulate the following lawyers:

• Maureen Killoran Q.C. on her recognition as Energy/Resources Litigator of the Year
• Stéphane Eljarrat on his recognition as White Collar Crime/Enforcement Litigator of the Year for the second consecutive year
• Al Meghji, Peter Macdonald, Andrew Kingissepp, Monica Biringer, Blake Murray, Amanda Heale, Mark Sheeley, Pooja Mihailovich, Masoud Tasharofi, Gerald Grenon, Marshall Rothstein, Al-Nawaz Nanji, Andrew Boyd, Taylor Cao (Taxation), Laura Fric, Lia Bruschetta and Catherine Gleason-Mercier (Litigation) for their work on Cameco Corporation v. Her Majesty the Queen which received an “Impact Case” award, recognizing the case as having the greatest impact on the Canadian litigation community.

Maureen Killoran Q.C., is a partner in our Litigation group and operates in both our Vancouver and Calgary offices. She is nationally recognized for her expertise in commercial disputes in both arbitration and litigation, resources, major projects, and environmental, administrative, constitutional and aboriginal law. Maureen has been recognized in Benchmark’s Top 50 Women in Litigation for five consecutive years and is recognized by clients and peers as one of the best litigators in Canada and a trailblazer among women.

Stéphane Eljarrat is a partner in our Litigation group and leads our White-Collar Defence practice. Stéphane works closely with Osler’s market-leading Risk Management and Crisis Response team and represents corporate clients and institutions in a wide range of criminal investigations and proceedings. Stéphane is known for his market-leading expertise in white-collar defence built over decades of experience in both private practice and the public sector.

Osler’s National Litigation Department litigates business-critical issues for organizations in Canada and around the world. Best known for handling complex corporate/commercial litigation and arbitration, we defend major institutional clients on high-profile and precedent-setting cases. Our industry-recognized team members are experts in complex commercial litigation as well as in the litigation specialties that major corporations call on most often.

The Benchmark Litigation Canada Awards acknowledge leading litigators and the most impactful disputes across Canada. The awards recognize firms and litigators who’ve had exceptional performance both locally and nationally. Benchmark Litigation’s research is based on months of extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients as well as analysis of the market’s most important cases and firm developments.

More information can be found at Benchmark Litigation Canada.