Davis LLP

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Davis LLP
Type	Limited liability partnership
Founded	Vancouver, (1892)
Headquarters	Vancouver with 7 other offices (Toronto, Montréal, Calgary, Edmonton, Whitehorse, Yellowknife, Tokyo)
Industry	Law
Products	Legal advice
Employees	550
Website	www.davis.ca

Established in 1892, Davis LLP (formerly Davis & Company LLP) is a full-service Canadian law firm with over 200 lawyers. The founding office is in Vancouver, with other offices located in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Tokyo.

1 Firm Profile
2 Representative Cases
3 Current and recent Davis lawyers who have been appointed as judges or to other positions
4 Davis lawyers from the past
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Firm Profile

Davis provides both corporate / commercial law and litigation services. Specialized practice areas include aboriginal, competition, professional governance, international corporate governance, renewable energy & sustainable development (carbon finance and carbon credits), and video games & interactive entertainment law. The firm's infrastructure and project finance team structures and arranges financing and advises on Canadian and European public-private partnerships.

On May 4, 2007, the firm announced that it had changed its name from Davis & Company LLP to Davis LLP.^[1]

[edit] Representative Cases

Davis championed the rights of Japanese-Canadians after World War II, and its relationship with Japanese companies and investors, and those wishing to do business in Japan, is one of the firm's differentiators.

[edit] Current and recent Davis lawyers who have been appointed as judges or to other positions

Martin R. Taylor, Q.C., C. Arb.: Supreme Court of British Columbia, British Columbia Court of Appeal [1]
Alec C. Robertson, Q.C.: Chief Commissioner of the B.C. Treaty Commission [2]
Maria F. Giardini: Provincial Court of British Columbia
Thomas R. Lederer: Ontario Superior Court