Transportation
Our Group
The Transportation Group is dedicated to meeting client’s needs. We understand the challenges and opportunities facing transportation in Canada, North America and globally. In partnership with our clients, we develop sound legal solutions that incorporate our in-depth industry knowledge and the unique risk management considerations of individual clients.
Our Clients
Among our diverse clients base are a Class 1 North American railway, trucking companies, transit authorities, taxi, bus and limousine companies, freight brokers, logistics providers and other transportation intermediaries, as well as users of the freight transportation industry, including manufacturers, distributors and warehouses.
Our Expertise
Our lawyers are trained and experienced in a broad range of legal disciplines — business and commercial, corporate, tax, regulatory, litigation, real estate, environmental, and labour, among others. Extensive transportation industry knowledge, experience and contacts enable our lawyers to offer timely, practical and cost-effective advice in line with accepted industry patterns and protocols.
Our group has been involved in many leading cases that have redefined the nature and extent of the obligations of parties in the transportation industry.
Our Services
- Regulatory law
- Commercial litigation related to the transportation industry
- Occupational Health & Safety Act issues
- Acquisition, merger or divestment of carriers and private fleet operations
- Negotiation of commercial contracts among carriers, shippers and logistic providers, bills of lading and contracts of carriage
- Pursuit or defence of freight loss, and damage claims and suits
- Labour, personnel and employment issues
- Transportation insurance
- Truck accident, personal injury, workers’ compensation and insurance defence
- Competition advice
- Rate disputes and final offer arbitration
- Corporate, partnership and business transactions