Torys
Canadian law firm
Torys LLP is a Canadian international corporate law firm with offices in Toronto, Calgary, New York, Montreal, Vancouver and Halifax. The firm acts for a wide range of commercial clients and financial institutions in Canada, the United States, and globally.
01History
The firm was founded in 1941 by Toronto 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.
02Notable lawyers
- John Tory, 65th and former Mayor of Toronto, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, grandson of founder John S. D. Tory
- J. Robert S. Prichard, Former Chairman of the Bank of Montreal
- Anita Anand, 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, former Premier of Ontario
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