Worldwide competitive pressures, escalating energy prices and other cost-structure shifts have had a significant impact on Canada’s forest product industry. At Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC), we believe that investment capital will once again find the restructured industry, attracted by innovative management and its experience as stewards of a high-quality, long-term fibre supply.

We know the forest products industry intimately, from stumpage to specialty grades, from panels to pine beetles. Each of our offices has the legal expertise that the forest products industry demands: commercial contracts and strategy in fibre supply and finished product distribution, mergers and acquisitions, international trade, environmental, human resources, aboriginal, litigation and insolvency.

But legal expertise is only part of the picture: our clients come back because of our industry knowledge, our commitment to efficient pricing and our ability to serve them in a coordinated fashion across Canada. We look ahead to find legal solutions that maximize their future success. Whether we are advising on the conversion of a sawmill into a reman in the east, negotiating a chip supply arrangement in central Canada, or helping to avoid a strike at a pulp mill in the west, we add value—and we do not waste our clients’ time.