Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) is one of Canada's leading business law firms with more than 500 lawyers in offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Chicago, London and Beijing. Our integrated office network gives clients access to the full spectrum of capabilities found throughout the Firm. Whether an issue is local or multi-jurisdictional, practice-area specific or cross-disciplinary, Blakes can provide solutions at every level.

Blakes has been part of new economies since 1856. We are proud of our 150-year history and the role we have played in helping clients prosper during that period of tremendous economic and social change. We understand that our continued success depends on our ability to meet the needs of clients both today and tomorrow.

Blakes provides guidance and expertise in virtually every area of business law to a diverse national and international base of clients. Thanks to these clients and the challenging legal work they generate, Blakes is recognized as one of Canada’s pre-eminent law firms. Many of our lawyers are leaders in their respective fields, evidenced by the fact that Blakes lawyers are continually recommended in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Canada's leading guide to lawyers) in almost every category of law. For the first nine months of 2006, Blakes ranked in the top two firms on the Bloomberg and Thomson Financial M&A league tables in terms of number of deals for Canadian announced transactions. In Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2007, Blakes is the only Canadian law firm to rank in all 14 categories. This includes three practice groups that have rated number one: Financial Services, Competition and Infrastructure/P3.

Our clients include some of the best-known, and soon-to-be-known names in business, ranging from major corporations and financial institutions to start-ups in manufacturing and knowledge-based industries. To better serve this broad client base, we continue to develop industry-specific teams that combine leading-edge experience with industry acumen.

For more information on our Firm, please see our 2006-2007 Annual Review on our website.