Lexpert Rising Stars Awards 2021 | Key Media | 9 July 2021 | online

Lexpert Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40 honour lawyers from law firms, in-house departments, and other practices. Members of the legal profession in Canada are invited to nominate qualified lawyers who have made outstanding contributions in their careers thus far.

Lexpert Rising Stars Awards is brought to you by Key Media, the organizers of a variety of Awards ceremonies across Canada, where hundreds of professionals gather annually, in person or virtually, to acknowledge the best professionals across the nation. We are proud to continue our tradition by celebrating legal excellence.

2020 Winners

RisingStar Awards:
• Kyle B. Plunkett, Partner, Aird & Berlis LLP
• Vivian Kung, Partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
• Jason MacIntyre, Partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
• Lindsay Cox, Partner, Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP
• Suhuyini Abudulai, Partner, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
• Olivier Fournier, Partner, Tax Law, Deloitte Legal Canada (National Leader), Deloitte Legal Canada LLP
• Catherine Biron, Partner, Langlois Lawyers LLP
• Jean Patrick Dallaire, Partner, Langlois Lawyers LLP
• James Renihan, Partner, Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
• Crista Osualdini, Partner, McLennan Ross LLP
• Allan J. Ritchie, Managing Partner, Loopstra Nixon LLP
• Jean-Sébastien Dupont, Partner, Smart & Biggar LLP
• Vanessa Coiteux, Partner, Stikeman Elliott LLP
• Ben Hudy, Partner, Stikeman Elliott LLP
• Kim Le, Partner, Stikeman Elliott LLP
• Kobi Bessin, Partner, Torkin Manes LLP
• Lindsey Galvin, Director, Whitelaw Twining LLP
• Louis Seveno, Partner, Woods LLP
• Leena Yousefi, Lawyer/CEO, YLaw
• Geoffrey Stenger, Partner, Bennett Jones LLP
• Bianca Thomas, Counsel, BMO Financial
• Emma Blanchard, Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
• Robyn Gurofsky, Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
• Sarah McEachern, Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
• Steven Frankel, Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
• Christian Lachance, Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
• Eric Foster, Partner, Dentons Canada LLP
• Chris Zelyas, Partner, Dentons Canada LLP
• Katrina Edgerton-Mcghan, Counsel, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
• Nicholas Hooge, Partner, Farris LLP
• Antoine Aylwin, Partner, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
• Jonathan Lim, Partner, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
• Vera Toppings, Partner, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
• Dayna Steinfeld, Associate, Fillmore Riley LLP
• Caroline Descours, Partner, Goodmans LLP
• Michelle Vigod, Partner, Goodmans LLP
• Arun Krishnamurti, Counsel, Google Canada
• Laura Mazenc, Ministry of Justice, Legal Services Division, Government of Saskatchewan
• Elizabeth (Beth) Burton, Partner and Practice Group Leader, Financial Institutions & Services Group (Calgary), Gowling WLG
• Daniel Cole, Partner (Leader – Advertising & Regulatory Group, Canada), Gowling WLG
• Jaimie Lickers, CIBC, Vice President, Indigenous Markets, Gowling WLG Alumna
• Joel Morris, Partner, Harper Grey LLP
• Kathryn Bird, Partner, Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
• Nick Crosbie, Team Lead, Legal, Husky Energy
• Elizabeth (Beth) Nanton, Partner, U.S. Immigration Practice Leader, KPMG Law LLP
• Warda Sahazadi Meighen, Partner, Landings LLP
• Audrey Gibeault, Partner, Lavery Lawyers
• Maxwell Carroll, Partner, Lawson Lundell LLP
• Muneeb Yusuf, General Counsel, League Inc.
• Corin Bowman, Associate General Counsel, Ledcor
• Matthew Lerner, Partner, Lenczner Slaght
• Jennifer Hunter, Partner, Lerners LLP
• Louis-Nicolas Boulanger, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
• Kate McNeill-Keller, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
• Isabelle Vendette, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
• Daniel Wallace, Partner, McInnes Cooper
• Adam Chisholm, Partner, McMillan LLP
• Jeffrey Levine, Partner, McMillan LLP
• Jill Wilkie, Partner, Miller Thomson LLP
• Tamara Napoleon, Principal, Managing Principal (Victoria) and Leader of Indigenous Law Group, Miller Titerle & Company
• Jana Linner, Partner, MLT Aikins LLP
• Peter Senkpiel, Partner, Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson LLP
• Mathieu Deschamps, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
• Lara Mason, Partner, Litigation, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
• Alex Gorka, Partner, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
• Chima Ubani, Partner, Corporate, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
• Ren Bucholz, Partner, Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
• Vincent Bergeron, Partner, Lawyer and Trademark Agent; Leader of the Emerging Technology Group, ROBIC, LLP
• Jonathan Coady, Partner, Stewart McKelvey
• Nana Yanful, Legal Team Lead and Staff Lawyer, The Black Legal Action Centre
• Bailey Harris, Partner, Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP
• Peter Danner, Partner, Torys LLP
• Molly Reynolds, Counsel, Torys LLP
• Mark Gustafson, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Director, Legal Services, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
• Nadia Chiesa, Partner, Weirfoulds LLP
• Joanna Vince, Partner, Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP
• Fabien Fourmanoit, Vice-President, Legal, Xplornet Communications Inc.