Fraser Milner Casgrain and our individual lawyers are consistently recognized as leaders in Canadian law. Our lawyers are recommended as industry leaders by prestigious legal publications such as The Best Lawyers in Canada; Chambers Global Guide; Euromoney's Expert Guides; LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory; The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory; The LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Practical Law Company’s PLC Which Lawyer? and Who’s Who Legal. 

Our most recent appearances among these notable publications include the following:

• FMC ranks among the top ten firms in Financial Post’s FP Dealmakers Q4 2011, highlighting the leading legal advisers on Canadian Debt & Equity Offerings for both the final quarter and the full calendar year for 2011.
• Bloomberg’s Global Legal Advisers Q4 2011 for Capital Markets ranks FMC among the top ten Canadian firms in several categories.
• The 2012 LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada features 12 FMC lawyers as leaders in their respective fields. Based on LEXPERT’s peer review surveys conducted in 2011, the guide distinguishes those identified as the “Most Frequently Recommended” by their peers.
• Lexpert’s Litigation Special Edition, appearing as an insert in Report on Business Magazine (December 2011), lists five FMC lawyers among Canada’s leading Litigation  professionals
• Lexpert’s Insolvency & Restructuring Special Edition, appearing as an insert in Report on Business Magazine (November 2011) lists three FMC lawyers among Canada’s leading Insolvency & Restructuring professionals.
• FMC ranks among the top ten firms in Financial Post’s FP Dealmakers Q3 2011, highlighting the leading legal advisers on Canadian Debt & Equity Offerings
• The Best Lawyers in Canada 2012 recommends 100 FMC lawyers across 37 specialty areas of practice.
• The 2011 LEXPERT Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada features six of FMC’s leading practitioners, as well as one FMC partner selected among the “Canadian Corporate Lawyers to Watch”
• FMC ranks among the top ten firms in Financial Post’s FP Dealmakers Q2 2011, highlighting the leading legal advisers on Canadian Debt & Equity Offerings
• Bloomberg’s Global Legal Advisory – Mergers & Acquisition Rankings Q2 2011 recognizes FMC among their Canadian and Brazilian M&A league tables for its work on eligible M&A deals for the first six months of 2011.
• Bloomberg’s Global Legal Advisers Q2 2011 recognizes FMC with top ten appearances among their Global and Canadian league tables, in nine Capital Markets categories.
• The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory 2011 recommends 75 of FMC’s lawyers, 20 of whom have achieved a ranking of the highest level (“Most Frequently Recommended”) in at least one area of specialization. A total of 117 rankings were earned across 40 key areas of business law by FMC's lawyers
• The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory 2011 recommends FMC among Canada's leading firms in 19 areas of practice, listing us as Canada's sixth largest firm with 519 lawyers across our six offices. FMC is also ranked as the largest firm in Edmonton with 77 lawyers, and the second largest firm in the Calgary/Edmonton market, with 180 lawyers in our Alberta offices
• FMC ranks among the leading legal advisers to Canadian M&A deals in Mergermarket’s Q1 2011 league tables release, with three top ten rankings, in addition to appearing on the Africa & Middle East tables, as a result of recent work for a global client
• FMC ranks among the top ten firms in The Financial Post’s FP Dealmakers Q1 2011, highlighting the leading legal advisers on Canadian Debt & Equity Offerings
• Chambers Global 2011: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business ranks 31 FMC lawyers as leaders in their fields, across 17 specialty areas, and ranks FMC as a leading firm in 14 key areas of business law
• FMC ranks consistently among Canada’s leading legal advisors on Debt & Equity offerings in FP Dealmakers 2010 and FP Dealmakers Q4 2010, including multiple ‘top ten’ appearances
• FMC’s Insolvency/Restructuring Group earns four rankings in special LEXPERT Magazine supplement on Canada’s Restructuring Professionals
• Goldcorp's $3.6 billion acquisition proposal for Andean Resources featured among LEXPERT Magazine's "Top 10 Corporate Deals of 2010"
• The 2011 LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada features 18 FMC lawyers as leaders in their respective fields. Based on LEXPERT’s peer review surveys in 2010, the guide distinguishes those identified as the “Most Frequently Recommended” by their peers.
• The 2010 LEXPERT Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada features five of FMC’s leading practitioners, as well as two FMC partners identified among the “Litigation Lawyers to Watch”
• LEXPERT's Special Edition - Leading Litigation Lawyers in Report on Business Magazine (December 2010) lists four FMC lawyers among Canada's leading litigation professionals
• Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2010 recommends 16 FMC lawyers as the leaders in their respective specialty areas, a special report based upon the global compendium, Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, published by Law Business Research
• The 2010 LEXPERT Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada features four FMC partners
• The Best Lawyers in Canada 2011 recommends 89 FMC lawyers across 36 specialty areas of practice. FMC is ranked #1 (by number of lawyers) in many areas by region/office, most notably #1 in Canada in the areas of Insolvency & Financial Restructuring and Natural Resources.
• The 2010 Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory recommends 69 of FMC’s lawyers, 19 of whom have achieved a ranking of the highest level (“Most Frequently Recommended”) in at least one area of specialization; a total of 104 rankings were earned across 44 key areas of business law
• The 2010 Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory recommends FMC among Canada's leading firms in 18 areas of practice, listing us as Canada's sixth largest firm with 517 lawyers across our six offices, the largest firm in Edmonton with 70 lawyers, and the second largest firm in the Calgary/Edmonton market, with 174 lawyers in our Alberta offices
• Chambers Global 2010: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business ranks 28 FMC lawyers as leaders in their fields, across 14 areas of practice, and ranks FMC as a leading firm in 12 key areas of business law
• The 2010 LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada features 18 FMC lawyers as leaders in their respective fields. Based on LEXPERT’s peer review surveys in 2009, the guide distinguishes those identified as the “Most Frequently Recommended” by their peers.
• The 2010 LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada ranks FMC among Canada’s leading firms in the following categories: Corporate, Corporate Transactions, Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Tax and Technology Lawyers
• Novæ Res Urbis has ranked Fraser Milner Casgrain’s Property Development team among Toronto’s “Top-Ten Development Law Firms” in its 12th annual ranking
• The 2009 LEXPERT Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada features 5 FMC lawyers
• FMC’s Real Estate group is 'Highly Recommended' by the PLC Cross-border Corporate Real Estate Handbook 2009-10, with 5 partners also ranked among Canada’s top Real Estate Lawyers
• The Best Lawyers in Canada 2010 recommends 85 FMC lawyers across 36 specialty areas of practice and 37 sub-specialty areas. FMC is ranked #1 (by number of lawyers) in many areas by region/office, most notably #1 in Canada in the areas of Insolvency & Financial Restructuring and Natural Resources.
• The 2009 LEXPERT Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada features 3 of FMC's partners
• FMC once again ranks among the ‘top tens’ in FP Dealmakers Q2 2009, highlighting the leaders in debt and equities offerings for the second quarter of 2009
• FMC ranked #1 in Bloomberg’s Q2 2009 Canadian Equity Offerings League Tables in the Issuer Advisors (IPO) category, with several top ten positions in five additional Equity Offerings categories
• The 2009 Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory recommends 63 of FMC’s lawyers, 19 of whom have achieved a ranking of the highest level (“Most Frequently Recommended”) in at least one area of specialization; a total of 104 rankings were earned across 42 key areas of business law. The firm was also ranked as the #1 Litigation firm in the Calgary market.
• The 2009 Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory recommends FMC among Canada's leading firms in 17 areas of practice, and lists us as Canada's sixth largest firm with 546 lawyers across our six offices, the largest firm in Edmonton with 71 lawyers, and the second largest firm in the Calgary/Edmonton market, with 187 lawyers in our Alberta offices
• FMC ranks prominently among the ‘top tens’ in FP Dealmakers Q1 2009
• Chambers Global 2009: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business ranks 25 FMC partners as leaders in their fields, across 11 areas of practice, and ranks FMC as a leading firm in 8 key areas of business law
• PLC Which Lawyer? 2009 recommends 25 FMC lawyers as leaders in their respective areas of expertise, on both national and regional levels, across 16 specialty areas (20 including regional breakdowns). Each practice-specific PLC Crossborder Handbook is published independently throughout PLC’s editorial year, with each contributing to the annual PLC Which Lawyer? compendium.
• The 2009 LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada ranks 16 FMC partners as leaders in their respective areas of expertise
• LexisNexis’ Martindale-Hubbell currently features 205 FMC partners as “Peer Review Rated”, including 37 top-ranked “AV Rated”, based on Ethical Standards and Legal Abilities determined by Martindale’s exhaustive peer review and research process
• The 2008 International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (“Who’s Who Legal”) recommends 11 of FMC’s leading partners across 7 key areas of legal expertise for business. Each practice-specific “Who’s Who” guide is published independently throughout LBR’s editorial year, with each contributing to the annual compendium.
• The 2007 LEXPERT Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada featured 7 of FMC's partners
• Euromoney's Expert Guides currently recommend 16 FMC lawyers across 11 key areas of expertise for business law (as at Sept. 2008). Each practice-specific Expert Guide is released independently throughout Euromoney’s publishing year.

All statistics are based on initial date of publication unless otherwise noted and are subject to change during the editorial year.