Torys LLP is a Canadian international corporate law firm with offices in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

, Calgary, New York,

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

and Halifax. The firm acts for a wide range of commercial clients and financial institutions in

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, the

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, and globally.

History

The firm was founded in 1941 by

business lawyer John Stewart Donald Tory. In the 1960s the firm was renamed Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington. In 2000, it merged with New York law firm Haythe & Curley and was briefly known as Tory Haythe before being rebranded to Torys LLP. Torys became a national firm with the opening of a Calgary office in 2011 and a Montreal office in 2013. The firm is one of the Seven Sisters, a group of seven prominent Canadian business law firms.

Notable lawyers and alumni

John Tory John Howard Tory (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian politician who has served as the 65th and current mayor of Toronto since 2014. After a career as a lawyer, political strategist and businessman, Tory ran as a mayoral candidate in the 200 ...

, 65th and current

Mayor of Toronto The mayor of Toronto is the head of Toronto City Council and chief executive officer of the municipal government. The mayor is elected alongside city council every four years on the fourth Monday of October; there are no term limits. While in ...

, former leader of the

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (french: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada ...

, grandson of founder John S. D. Tory *

Robert Prichard John Robert Stobo Prichard, (born 1949) is a Canadians, Canadian lawyer, economist, and academic. He is the past president and chief executive officer and former director of Torstar Corporation. He is now the chairman of the Bank of Montreal. A ...

, current Chairman of the Bank of Montreal *

Anita Anand Anita Anand (born May 20, 1967) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who serves as the minister of national defence since 2021. She has represented the riding of Oakville in the House of Commons since the 2019 federal election, sitting as ...

, Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada * Frank Iacobucci, former puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada * John B. Laskin, justice of the Federal Court of Appeal * Robert P. Armstrong, former Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario *

Bill Davis William Grenville Davis, (July 30, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th premier of Ontario from 1971 to 1985. Davis was first elected as the member of provincial Parliament for Peel in the 1959 provincia ...

, former Premier of Ontario

References

External links

Official Website
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