Stikeman Elliott LLP is a Canadian business law firm founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott. The firm has offices located in

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. Since 2021, the firm's chairman is Jeffrey Singer.

History

Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott established a tax boutique firm in Montreal in 1952. 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 to not do so. 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

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, 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. The firm added eight new partners in January 2022.

Notable lawyers and alumni

Suzanne Côté Suzanne Côté (born September 21, 1958) is a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She was nominated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to replace retiring justice Louis LeBel. Before her appointment to the Supreme Court, she was a partner ...

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of the

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, former

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and former federal cabinet minister *

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, ice hockey player *

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, Canadian ambassador to the

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from 1981 to 1989 * Donald Johnston, former federal cabinet minister and Secretary-General of the

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(OECD) from 1996 to 2006 *

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, former

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; Senior Counsel (2000-2007) *

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, Minister of Environmental and Climate Change * Marc Miller,

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Canada *

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, former VP of the IOC and former President of the

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John Robarts John Parmenter Robarts (January 11, 1917 – October 18, 1982) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Early life Roba ...

, former premier of

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, former puisne justice on the

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, 17th

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References

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