Best Law Firms in Toronto, ON for Administrative and Public Law

About Gardiner Roberts
Founded in the 1920s, Gardiner Roberts LLP is a full-service law firm representing a bespoke client base which includes major banks, municipalities, government entities, entrepreneurs, tech and growth companies, real estate developers, lenders, investors, innovative and community leading businesses and organizations.

A number of our lawyers have enjoyed in-house corporate positions and been appointed as board members of tribunals or as judges. Our diversified practice allows us to provide solutions and advice to clients from virtually every industry.

Business and Corporate Commercial
The Business and Corporate Commercial Group emphasizes an entrepreneurial approach to the implementation of client strategies. Where required, the lawyers in the Business Practices Group work closely with the firm's tax, real estate and intellectual property lawyers to provide the breadth a

Whether it be the local move of a shipment of goods or a complex international supply chain matter, the members of the Transportation and Logistics Group are uniquely qualified to serve your business interests. Recognized both internationally and throughout Canada, our team members are well suited to assist your business, navigate the particular risks and challenges in the movement of goods and passengers all while the industry continues to evolve. These risks and challenges become even more acute as different regulatory regimes and foreign laws advance. 

Our team members routinely advise clients across a full range of legal issues in the supply chain and passenger trades, including shippers, manufacturers, internet based “fulfillment” distributors, sellers, buyers, carriers, cargo and legal liability insurers, freight forwarders and intermediaries, customs brokers and warehouse operators. In providing these services, our team draws on industry leading expertise in the local and international carriage of goods and passengers by truck, ocean, rail and air. 

Our expertise extends beyond the provision of front-end “risk management and avoidance” advice in the nature of commercial transactions, regulatory compliance and contracting review due diligence at the front end, to the representation of clients and their insurers in litigation or arbitration matters in the event of a transit loss or casualty.

Commercial Real Estate and Municipal
The Commercial Real Estate and Municipal Group reflects a breadth of legal skills, including knowledge of real estate, financing, tax, partnerships and syndication, landlord and tenant, and commercial law. Acting for a wide range of clients including municipal governments and agencies, builders and developers, landlords and tenants, public and private corporations, we have developed a wealth of expertise which is continuously enlarged and enhanced in daily practice.

Financial Services
The Financial Services Group integrates the expertise of our corporate/commercial counsel with our tax, restructuring and insolvency and real estate experts and our seasoned dispute resolution lawyers to provide coherent and seamless advice on all aspects of a transaction.

Health Law
The Health Law Group is dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights and interests of health care professionals and providers at all levels, and are known throughout the health care industry as professional rights advocates. The group acts for institutions, professional associations, nursing homes, laboratories and all manner of business and institutions within the health care industry.

Insolvency and Restructuring
Insolvency and Restructuring Services involve a coordinated response to imminent or actual financial distress situations starting from the formulation of a plan of action to its implementation and completion. As well, our restructuring lawyers engage with the other practice area specialists within the firm when needed to provide an integrated response to financial crisis.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution
The Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group is comprised of a number of highly experienced litigators. Our lawyers have been involved in a wide variety of litigious commercial issues including corporate restructuring, class actions, competition, asset recovery, injunctions, professional negligence, and insolvency. Our lawyers are not only experienced in court and tribunal proceedings but also arbitration, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution. We have represented corporate and individual clients at both the trial and appellate levels in federal and provincial courts and before regulatory and administrative tribunals in both Canada and the United States.

Non-Profit and Charities
Non-profit organizations require a broad range of legal skills at their disposal, including knowledge of corporate, trust, tax, business, real estate, intellectual property, contract, commercial and dispute resolution law. Accordingly, the Gardiner Roberts Non-Profit and Charitable Organizations Group includes lawyers from our Business Practices, Tax and Estate Planning, Technology and Intellectual Property, Real Estate and Municipal and Dispute Resolution groups.

Securities and Corporate Finance
Securities regulation is evolving at an accelerating pace. From satisfying continuous disclosure requirements and ensuring compliance with good corporate governance practices to structuring a significant transaction, you need experienced professionals to guide you through the complex and often inconsistent mine field that is securities regulation in Canada. Ours is a practical business-oriented approach to securities regulation and corporate finance in the context of your business. We work closely with our clients to provide you with a full range of pragmatic business and legal advice to help you make informed, strategic decisions going forward.

Tax and Estate Planning
Our tax specialists combine technical proficiency with a strong working knowledge of business issues, from structuring limited partnerships to negotiating complex buy/sell transactions. We assist clients with the broad issues of corporate structure, trade, finance, tax appeals, corporate and individual tax planning, and estate and succession planning. The Tax and Estate Planning Group also provides tax expertise to lawyers and accountants at other firms that do not have tax specialists.

Technology and Intellectual Property
The Intellectual Property and Technology Group is able to provide expert advice in financing all stages of research, development rights protection, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, with customized programs that deliver solid results while remaining sensitive to the client's financial concerns.

Transportation and Logistics
Whether it be the local move of a shipment of goods or a complex international supply chain matter, the members of the Transportation and Logistics Group are uniquely qualified to serve your business interests. Recognized both internationally and throughout Canada, our team members are well suited to assist your business, navigate the particular risks and challenges in the movement of goods and passengers all while the industry continues to evolve. These risks and challenges become even more acute as different regulatory regimes and foreign laws advance. 

Our team members routinely advise clients across a full range of legal issues in the supply chain and passenger trades, including shippers, manufacturers, internet based “fulfillment” distributors, sellers, buyers, carriers, cargo and legal liability insurers, freight forwarders and intermediaries, customs brokers and warehouse operators. In providing these services, our team draws on industry leading expertise in the local and international carriage of goods and passengers by truck, ocean, rail and air. 

Our expertise extends beyond the provision of front-end “risk management and avoidance” advice in the nature of commercial transactions, regulatory compliance and contracting review due diligence at the front end, to the representation of clients and their insurers in litigation or arbitration matters in the event of a transit loss or casualty.

Gowling WLG is an international law firm built on the belief that the best way to serve you is to be in tune with your world, aligned with your opportunity and ambitious for your success. With more than 1,500 legal professionals around the world, we provide our clients with in-depth knowledge in key global sectors and a suite of legal services at home and abroad. We see the world through our clients' eyes, and collaborate across countries, offices, service areas and sectors to help them succeed, no matter how challenging the circumstances.

Brief History

With roots tracing back to 1887, Gowling WLG grew to become one of the largest and most respected law firms in Canada, with a reputation for innovation in client-focused service delivery.

Building on its early strength in intellectual property, Gowling WLG diversified to offer a full suite of business law, litigation and intellectual property services in all of Canada’s key industries, including energy, mining, financial services, government, infrastructure, manufacturing, life sciences and technology.

Founded in 2009, JFK Law is Canada’s preeminent law firm that provides a full range of creative and innovative legal services to Indigenous peoples across Canada. We are widely recognized as the leaders in litigation and regulatory proceedings, consultation and negotiations, and in corporate and governance practice.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Consultation, Accommodation and Regulatory Review

We advise our clients on the Crown’s duty to consult and accommodate. This includes consultation on specific projects and assisting clients to establish their own consultation processes. We develop methodology for assessing and mitigating impacts to rights. Our litigation team reinforces our advisory work, as we have a demonstrated success challenging decisions where the Crown fails to live up to its duties.

Complex Negotiations

Our reconciliation-focused negotiations include various Indigenous groups negotiating modern day treaties in both urban and remote areas, including leading tables in the BC Treaty Process such as the Te’mexw Treaty Association. We also advise clients involved in multi-party negotiations in areas of common interest and have secured incremental agreements to deliver early benefits to nations involved in otherwise lengthy processes. Our team has a growing practice in both specific claims and treaty land entitlement.

We also advise clients on accommodation and impact benefit agreements, particularly related to major resource projects such as in the oil sands region of Northern Alberta. This ranges from project-specific environmental monitoring to comprehensive arrangements where nations become partners in major industrial projects or secure revenue sharing agreements with project proponents.

Economic Development and Governance

Recognizing increased opportunities for our clients’ economic development, we have intentionally grown our solicitor’s practice to serve this need. Our solicitors support clients in real estate and commercial transactions, including land assembly, development, leasing on and off-reserve, and servicing agreements. We assist clients developing businesses in various industries, including hotel and tourism, fishing, environmental, cannabis, and software development.

Our solicitors also support our clients to develop governance and administrative structures. We assist our clients in developing their own laws and bylaws under the Indian Act, the First Nations Land Management Act, the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, self-government agreements and treaties, and their inherent jurisdiction. In this context, we support implementation of laws and treaties, including by ensuring staff and leadership have clear policies for decision-making based on administrative fairness principles. We also advise clients on government-to-government relationships with all levels of government and other First Nations.

We provide experienced legal counsel to landowners and governmental authorities across the Province for a range of land use planning, expropriation and property litigation services. At Mathany & Higgs Law our mission is to work collaboratively with our clients to obtain the best results. Having started our careers with big firms, we understand what resources are necessary to maintain expertise and the highest quality legal work.

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Our Clients Include

Health professionals

Healthcare clinics, facilities, owners & staff

Healthcare organizations and associations

Healthcare agencies and institutions

Regulatory bodies

Other professionals and individuals

HOW WE HELP

Professional Regulation and Discipline

We help health professional clients facing college investigations, complaints, discipline, quality assurance, fitness to practice and registration proceedings, as well as in appeals or reviews of regulatory decisions.

We serve as independent legal counsel for college discipline committees and other tribunals. We train college and other regulators’ staff and committee members, to assist them in conducting fair investigations and hearings.

Hospital Privileges Challenges

We represent professional staff in disputes with hospitals and hospital administrators.

Opinions and Advice

We provide opinions and advice to individuals, businesses and associations. This includes advising on new ventures in health care, regulatory matters, health care billing issues, contracts and agreements, employment matters etc.

Privacy Law

We assist healthcare clinics, facilities and professionals to develop policies and procedures that comply with privacy laws.

We conduct privacy impact analyses and audits, and provide training to help custodians comply with their privacy obligations.

We help manage privacy breaches and complaints.

Independent Health Facilities and Out of Hospital Premises

We prepare clients for, and support them during, inspections and audits of independent health facilities and other clinics and health centres.

Billing Issues and Audits

We help all health professionals and clinic owners respond to inquiries and contest refusals of payment by OHIP or other health insurance providers.

Healthcare Businesses and Ventures

We assist healthcare providers and businesses to navigate the laws respecting delivery of healthcare, including those related to charging patients directly for uninsured services, advertising of healthcare services, and arrangements among healthcare providers and businesses.

Consent, Capacity and Mental Health Law

We advise individuals and families with respect to consent, capacity and mental health law.

Litigation and Other Advocacy

We represent individuals and organizations in other civil and administrative proceedings (such as complaints, disputes and investigations, civil litigation related to health law matters, academic discipline and proceedings before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal).

BYLDS has built a strong reputation within Toronto’s commercial litigation community through its commitment to practical, efficient, and results-oriented resolutions for business disputes. We recognize that every matter involves important business and personal considerations, and we provide attentive service and thoughtful advocacy tailored to each client’s needs and goals.

At BYLDS, we take a careful and responsive approach to every case, with a clear focus on helping clients navigate complex disputes with confidence. Our team works closely with clients throughout the litigation process, offering strategic guidance and practical solutions designed to support informed decision-making at every stage.