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| No. of offices | 8 |
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| No. of attorneys | 485 (2022) [1] |
| Revenue | USD 352,631,666 (2022) [2] |
| Date founded | 1952 |
| Founder | H. Heward Stikeman & Fraser Elliott |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | www |
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 and London. Since 2021, the firm's chairman is Jeffrey Singer. [4]
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]
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]
Charles Bronfman, is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023, Bronfman was ranked by Forbes as the 1,217th wealthiest person in the world.
Donald James Johnston, was a Canadian lawyer, writer and politician who was Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1996 to 2006. He was the first non-European to head that organization. From 1978 to 1988, Johnston was a Liberal Party member of the Canadian parliament and served in the cabinets of prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and John Turner. In addition, he was the president of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1990 to 1994. Johnston was an Officer of the Order of Canada, and an Officer of the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.
Marc Lalonde was a Canadian politician who served as a cabinet minister, political staffer and lawyer. A lifelong member of the Liberal Party, he is best known for having served in various positions of government from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, including serving as the Minister of Finance.
CIBC Tower is a 187 m (614 ft) 45-storey skyscraper in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The International Style office tower was built by Peter Dickinson, with associate architects Ross, Fish, Duschenes and Barrett, and was the city's tallest building from 1962 to 1963. The building holds offices for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the corporate law firm Stikeman Elliott, the Canadian accounting firm MNP LLP, as well as numerous other businesses.
Roy Fraser Elliott, was a Canadian lawyer, supporter of the arts, and philanthropist.
McCarthy Tétrault LLP is a leading Canadian law firm that delivers integrated business law, litigation services, tax law, real property law, labour and employment law nationally and globally through offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal, Québec City, London (UK), as well as New York City. McCarthy Tétrault LLP is one of the Seven Sisters law firms. Among the Seven Sisters, the reigning top firms are McCarthy Tetrault LLP, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP.
Gérald R. Tremblay, is a Canadian lawyer practising law in the province of Quebec.
Hubert T. Lacroix is a Canadian lawyer who last served as the President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the national public radio and television broadcaster, from 2008 until 2018.
The Seven Sisters refers to a historical collection of seven law firms with offices across Canada, the majority of which have head offices in Toronto, Ontario.
Lucie Lamarre was a judge of the Tax Court of Canada. She was appointed in 1993 and became Associate Chief Justice of the Court in 2015. She retired as Associate Chief Justice and from the Court in 2021.
Suzanne Côté 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 at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and previously Stikeman Elliott LLP in Montréal. She is the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court directly from private practice.
Călin Rovinescu, served as the president and chief executive officer of Air Canada from April 2009 to February 2021.
Allison Christians is a tax law scholar and the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law at the McGill University Faculty of Law/Faculté de Droit in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her research and teaching focus on Canadian and U.S. domestic and international tax law and policy issues, with an emphasis on the relationship between taxation and economic development and on the role of government and non-government institutions and actors in the creation of tax policy norms.
Marc Miller is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs in the House of Commons in the 2015 election. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he currently serves as Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship in the Federal Cabinet following the swearing in of a new cabinet on July 26, 2023. He previously served as the Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations, starting on October 26, 2021.
Gowling WLG is a multinational law firm formed by the combination of Canada-based Gowlings and UK-based Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co in February 2016.
Virginia "Ginny" Stikeman is a Canadian filmmaker, director, producer and editor known for her documentary work. Stikeman had a 30-year career at the National Film Board of Canada, and led its women's unit, Studio D, from 1990 until its closure in 1996.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is a Canadian lawyer, television columnist, and politician.
Mirko Bibic is a Canadian businessman who is President and CEO of BCE Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Bell Canada.
Kim Brooks is a university professor and administrator who currently serves as the President and vice-chancellor of Dalhousie University. She was previously the university's acting Provost and Vice-President Academic, as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Management at the university. Prior to this she served as the Dean of the university's Schulich School of Law and as the endowed H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Law of Taxation at the McGill University Faculty of Law.
The Honourable Donald George Hugh Bowman Q.C. was a Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada. He was preceded as Chief Justice by Alban Garon and succeeded by Gerald Rip.