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	International employers expanding into four Canadian provinces need a national law firm. Employers with severance issues complicated by tax matters and stock options need a full service law firm. And companies merging unionized and non-unionized workforces with complex pension and privacy issues need a law firm with depth of expertise in employment, labour, pensions and privacy law. In Canada, that firm is Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP. Our clients have no need to go from firm to firm when their employment law needs cross borders, or become complicated with securities, tax, intellectual property or pensions issues. With offices across the country and across the border, FMC can respond to the full range of issues that arise in complex operations or large mergers. "Respond" is our keyword: we’re there when our clients need us. There’s a union organizer at your door? A complaint of sexual harassment has been made against a senior executive? We walk you through the steps to take while we prepare your case. But we don’t stop there: we help you draft policies and procedures to minimize your exposure. From prevention to litigation, FMC is your full service firm. More

REPRESENTATIVE WORK

	Representing KPMG LLP in defence of an Ontario class action filed on behalf of former employees with respect to unpaid overtime

	Counsel to Bruce Edmeades Co. and Martin Brower of Canada Co. on $10M acquisition of Bruce Edmeades Co. by Colabor Income Fund

	Appeal to Federal Court of Appeal on ruling of the Tax Court of Canada regarding the distinction between employees and independent contractors

	Acted as Canadian counsel to Irdeto Holdings on its $72.5M acquisition of Cloakware Inc., a Virginia-based software company

	Société Générale de financement du Québec on $100M acquisition of equity interest in Alliance Films Inc.

	Counsel to Goldbelt Resources on its $118M acquisition by take-over bid by Wega Mining

	Acted for UK-based Wood Group on $125M acquisition of IMV Corporation

	Represented Armtec Infrastructure Income Fund on $120M acquisition of Con-Force, related $60M public offering and of $105M amended/restated credit facility

	Acted for Meridian Gold in the $3.5 billion takeover bid by Yamana Gold

	Obtained an injunction to prevent the use of intellectual property by departing employees and to obtain the return of the employer’s property

	Successfully defended an employer in a labour arbitration involving the contracting out of services

	Advised on the termination of employment of a senior executive and the related employment contract and severance issues

	Advised and represented a major trucking company in its successful resistance to and defeat of a certification drive and application by the Teamsters union

	Drafted an Executive Employment Agreement with complex change of control and non-competition provisions

	Advised on drug testing policy in connection with safety sensitive work

	Advised Pogo Producing Co. of Houston, Texas on their $2 billion (US) sale of their Calgary-based oil and gas company, Northrock Resources Ltd., to Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. (TAQA)

	Successfully defended an employer in a high profile human rights proceeding

	Successfully defended an employer in a wrongful dismissal claim involving disability issues

	Successfully defended a major courier company against an employee-status taxation claim in the Federal (Tax) Court of Canada (West Direct Express Ltd. v. M.N.R. and Farion, [2003] T.C.J. No. 73)

	Advised an employer on a strike/lockout matter and in connection with the use of replacement workers

	Assisted an employer with internal management seminars including harassment training and policy

	Investigated a high profile Sexual Harassment Complaint

	Successfully defended an major Canadian bank in defence of an unjust dismissal claim (Ms. M. v. Royal Bank of Canada, Adjudication under Division XIV - Part III of the Canada Labour Code)

	Advised on the labour, employment and privacy implications of a large complex commercial transaction

PUBLICATIONS

	Focus On Labour, Employment & Pensions: Supreme Court of Canada - Honda v. Keays

	Through the Privacy Prism: Rethinking Standard Practices

	Focus on Employment, Labour and Pensions

	Focus on Labour and Employment Law - May 2008

	Cross Border Travel with Digital Devices

	Government should go further with foreign worker programs


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Events

	Understanding Employee Leave Entitlements, July 31

	Foreign Workers and Crossing Borders: Leveraging Immigration Solutions for the Workplace, 2009 HRPA Annual Conference, January 28

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