Editorial shortlist / 2026
A supplied editorial shortlist focused on corporate and commercial work, including M&A, financing, securities, governance, venture capital, technology, contracts, and business transactions. Use it to begin your own review, not as a guarantee of fit, value, or outcome.
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Fasken
Corporate finance / M&A / securitiesThe supplied research note describes Fasken's co-managing partner in Ottawa as working across corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities, technology, governance, IPOs, private placements, takeovers, and public and private company acquisitions. Confirm current role, focus, and recognition directly with the linked professional source.
Gowling WLG
Corporate / M&A / technology / venture capitalThe supplied research note describes corporate finance and M&A work involving technology companies, founders, angel investors, venture-capital funds, institutional investors, financing, acquisitions, dispositions, and governance. Confirm current practice focus directly with the linked professional source.
Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP
Business law / M&A / corporate financeThe supplied research note describes the head of Perley-Robertson's Business Law Group as handling complex mergers, acquisitions, financings, private equity, and cross-border transactions. Confirm current role and practice details directly with the linked professional source.
Dentons
Corporate / startups / venture capital / M&AThe supplied research note describes Dentons' Ottawa Corporate group and National Securities and Corporate Finance team leadership, with work for founders, high-growth companies, VC funds, and investors from formation through financing and exit. Confirm current role and focus directly with the linked professional source.
Gowling WLG
Corporate commercial / technology / private M&AThe supplied research note describes co-leadership of Gowling WLG's Corporate Commercial, Funds and Private M&A group, with technology transactions, SaaS, licensing, IP-related commercial agreements, data security, and corporate-commercial work. Confirm current role and focus directly with the linked professional source.
Soloway Wright LLP
Corporate / securities / finance / M&AThe supplied research note describes corporate/commercial law, finance, securities, M&A, international venture-capital deals, acquisitions, reorganizations, cross-border transactions, and financing. Confirm current practice focus directly with the linked professional source.
Norton Rose Fulbright
Corporate / securities / private equity / M&AThe supplied research note describes corporate and securities law, M&A, equity financing, private placements, takeovers, contested shareholder matters, and work for startups, established companies, venture-capital funds, private-equity investors, and underwriters. Confirm current practice focus directly with the linked professional source.
Brazeau Seller Law
M&A / business sales / commercial transactionsThe supplied research note describes commercial transactions, mergers, acquisitions, and sales of businesses and properties, including work for buyers and sellers in private transactions. Confirm current services and recognition directly with the linked professional source.
Norton Rose Fulbright
Corporate / project finance / infrastructureThe supplied research note describes corporate/commercial law, infrastructure, project finance, corporate lending, financings, joint ventures, and M&A involving complex national and international transactions. Confirm current role and practice focus directly with the linked professional source.
Mann Lawyers
SME business law / acquisitions / governanceThe supplied research note describes leadership of Mann Lawyers' Business Law Group and work involving incorporations, governance, professional corporations, acquisitions and sales, commercial leasing, financing, and general corporate-commercial matters. Confirm current role and focus directly with the linked professional source.
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