Stikeman Elliott

Canadian business law firm
Stikeman Elliott LLP
No. of offices8
No. of attorneys485 (2022)[1]
RevenueUSD 352,631,666 (2022)[2]
Date founded1952
FounderH. Heward Stikeman & Fraser Elliott
Company typeLimited liability partnership
Websitewww.stikeman.com

Stikeman Elliott LLP is a Canadian business law firm founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott.[3] The firm has offices located in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, London and Sydney. Since 2021, the firm's chairman is Jeffrey Singer.[4]

History

Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott established a tax boutique firm in Montreal in 1952.[5] The firm expanded throughout the ensuing years, eventually becoming a full-service business law firm. Stikeman Elliott has never merged with another firm, one of the few Bay Street firms not to do so.[3] When it expanded to Toronto in 1970, two new partners were added, Donald Bowman and John Robarts, and the Toronto office became Stikeman, Elliott, Robarts and Bowman.

One of the first national firms to maintain an office in Quebec, along with McCarthy Tétrault, Stikeman Elliott is widely considered one of the best firms in Quebec. The firm is one of the Seven Sisters, a group of seven prominent Canadian law firms.[6]

Notable lawyers and alumni

  • Suzanne Côté, puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
  • Erin O'Toole, former Leader of the Opposition and former federal cabinet minister
  • Calin Rovinescu, former CEO of Air Canada
  • Alon Eizenman, ice hockey player
  • Allan Gotlieb, Canadian ambassador to the United States from 1981 to 1989
  • Donald Johnston, former federal cabinet minister and Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1996 to 2006
  • Antonio Lamer, former Chief Justice of Canada; Senior Counsel (2000-2007)
  • Donald Bowman, former Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada.
  • Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environmental and Climate Change
  • Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services Canada
  • Dick Pound, former VP of the IOC and former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency
  • John Robarts, former premier of Ontario
  • John Sopinka, former puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
  • John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada

References

  1. ^ https://www.law.com/international-edition/2023/09/19/the-2023-global-200-ranked-by-revenue/
  2. ^ https://www.law.com/international-edition/2023/09/19/the-2023-global-200-ranked-by-revenue/
  3. ^ a b Pound, Richard W. (10 September 2002). "Stikeman Elliott: The First Fifty Years". MQUP.
  4. ^ "'It's All Hands on Deck': The Unusual Start to Jeffrey Singer's Term as Stikeman Elliott's New Chair". Law.com International. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  5. ^ "Stikeman Elliott | McGill-Queen's University Press". www.mqup.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  6. ^ "What are the Seven Sisters Law Firms in Canada?". Careerinlaw.net CA. Retrieved 2022-04-29.