Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

About Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP is a Canadian business law firm headquartered in Toronto, with additional offices in Montreal and New York. It took its current name and shape on February 1, 2001, when Davies Ward & Beck, a Toronto firm founded in 1961, merged with Phillips & Vineberg, a Montreal firm founded in 1895. Davies is often grouped with a small set of Canadian business law firms known informally as the "Seven Sisters," a term that reflects a long, shared history of advising public and private companies, governments, and regulatory bodies on complex commercial matters.

The Toronto side of that history began in 1961, when the firm's founder left an established Bay Street firm to build a practice that hired and promoted lawyers on merit rather than school or family connections, with particular strength in tax, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. That focus carries into the firm's work today, which spans public M&A, capital markets, tax, competition, and disputes for Canadian and international clients. In 2026 the firm acted for Agnico Eagle Mines in a series of transactions worth approximately $3.8 billion to consolidate mining properties in Finland, and for La Caisse in its partnership with Brookfield to acquire Boralex Inc. for $9.0 billion.