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FRANCHISE LAW
Frith, Andraya C., Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Hoffman, Jeffrey P., Dale & Lessmann LLP
Jarvis, Darrell E., Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Levitt, Edward N., Dickinson Wright LLP
Mochrie, Dominic, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Shaw, Geoffrey B., Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Ship, Adam, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Sotos, John, Sotos LLP
Teasdale, Stéphane, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Viitre, Peter, Sotos LLP
Weinberg, Larry M., Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Sutin, Debi M., Gowling WLG Hamilton - (905) 540-3259 - debi.sutin@gowlingwlg.com
Debi Sutin is a member of the firm's Business Law and Franchise and Distribution Law groups, and is
one of Canada's most-recognized franchise lawyers. With more than 25 years of experience, she counsels
domestic and international franchisors and manufacturers, across all industries, in all matters pertaining to
the development and operation of their franchise and distribution arrangements. Based out of the Gowling
WLG Hamilton, Ontario office, Sutin recognizes her clients' need for sound, practical business advice
and timely service. She is passionate about educating her clients on the wide range of matters they will
encounter as they expand operations into, and throughout, Canada. Sutin is regularly called upon to speak
on franchise and distribution-related matters at industry conferences and other events. She is a member of
the Executive of the Ontario Bar Association Franchise Law Section, the Canadian Franchise Association,
the International Franchise Association and the American Bar Association Forum on Franchising
and a member of its Women's Caucus Committee.
So, Daniel F., McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP London - (519) 672-5666 Ext. 307 - so@mckenzielake.com
Daniel So is a partner and the head of McKenzie Lake's franchise law department. So acts for mature
and emergent franchisors and multi-unit and master franchisees. He assists his clients in national and
international expansion and regularly counsels foreign franchisors in their entry to the Canadian market.
He is a consultant for the producers of CBC television's Fortune Hunters and Dragons' Den and has spoken
at numerous conferences and seminars conducted by the Ontario Bar Association and Canadian Franchise
Association. He is an executive member of the Ontario Bar Association Franchise Law Section and is the
author of Canadian Franchise Law Guide: A Practical Guide, now in its third edition, which, inexplicably,
has not been optioned by a major Hollywood studio for its next blockbuster summer film. Called to the Bar
in both Ontario and British Columbia, So is a professor at the law school at the University of Victoria.
So is a member of the American Bar Association, and he received his BA from Western University
and his JD from the University of Victoria.
Floriani, Bruno, Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon, L.L.P.
Montréal - (514) 925-6310 - bruno.floriani@lrmm.com
Bruno Floriani is a leading practitioner in business, franchise and technology law, with special expertise in
assisting Canadian, US and European clients to expand internationally in over 45 countries using franchise,
licensing, JV, distribution and other hybrid arrangements. Floriani also advises foreign franchisors and
licensors in entering the Canadian market. He has lectured at various conferences worldwide on domestic
and international franchising, licensing, distribution, IP and privacy matters and written extensively in
several national and international legal and trade journals and periodicals, including the International Law
Office. He is also the editor of the multinational guide Getting the Deal rough: Licensing, and a contributor
to Getting the Deal rough: Franchising / Distribution & Agency. Floriani is also recognized as a leading
practitioner in Franchise Law by Chambers and the International Who's Who of Franchise Lawyers
and in Technology Law by Best Lawyers.
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