Torkin Manes LLP
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About Torkin Manes LLP
Torkin Manes LLP is a full-service business and litigation law firm on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. Ronald D. Manes, one of its founding partners, is still listed on the firm's own site and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1974. Torkin Manes advises individuals, private and public companies, and investment funds, with a practice that spans corporate and commercial work, litigation, family law, commercial real estate, trusts and estates, and labour and employment law. It's the exclusive Toronto member of Meritas, an alliance the firm describes as invitation-only, connecting it to nearly 8,500 lawyers across more than 170 independent firms in 90 countries.
The firm says its family law group is among the largest in the country, and pairs those lawyers with its corporate, tax, real estate, and estate litigation practices on files that cross into more than one area. Torkin Manes describes its broader work as helping companies and business ventures grow, in its own words, "from ideation to launch, sales, succession or public offering." In August 2026 the firm added an AI and Innovation Group to advise clients on AI procurement, data privacy, cybersecurity compliance, and regulatory governance, building on its existing technology and privacy work.
Practice areas
Real Estate Law
Construction Law
Business & Corporate Law
Family Law
Bankruptcy & Insolvency
Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Wills, Estates & Trusts
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In the community
- Torkin Manes lawyers volunteer with Pro Bono Ontario's Free Legal Advice Hotline, which offers 30 minutes of free legal advice on civil law matters.
- In 2009, the firm co-founded the Family Legal Health Program with Pro Bono Ontario at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, a program the firm describes as Canada's first medical-legal partnership and one that's since been replicated at other children's hospitals.
- The firm set up the Ron Manes Justice in Action Fund, a gift to Pro Bono Ontario named for founding partner Ron Manes, to help fund the group's access to justice work, including virtual court appearance services for unrepresented litigants.
- Torkin Manes lawyers and staff take part in the Baycrest Ride for Brain Health, the CIBC Run for the Cure, the Daily Bread Food Bank, the Law Society of Ontario's Lawyers Feed the Hungry, and the United Way campaign, and associates and students separately run projects supporting people experiencing homelessness in Toronto.
- With Osgoode Hall Law School, the firm funds a bursary that provides two Black Canadian law students a scholarship of $13,500 each.
- The firm is a signatory to the Law Firm Diversity and Inclusion Network's Statement of Principles and an Employer Partner with the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion.
Good to know
Wheelchair accessibleLawyers 131
Aaron M. English
Partner and Chair, Commercial Real Estate Group
Real Estate Law
Adam N. Black
Partner and Chair, Family Law Group
Family Law
Adrian Myers
Partner
Aleksandar Jovanovic
Partner
Alex Mazzadi
Associate
Allan S. Bronstein
Partner
Business & Corporate Law
Alyssa Campana
Associate
Andrew Biderman
Partner and Chair, Banking & Financial Services Group
Andrew J. Wilder
Partner, Cannabis Group and Chair, Corporate Finance & Securities Group
Andrew Stavros
Associate, Construction Law Group
Angela Yuan
Associate
Annie (Qurrat-ul-ain) Tayyab
Associate, Litigation Group
Anthony D'Angelo
Associate
Real Estate Law
Anthony Scane
Partner
Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Ari Tenenbaum
Partner
Brittany Sud
Counsel
Wills, Estates & TrustsTax Law
Chaim Sapirman
Partner
Charlotte Butler
Associate
Christine Ashbourne
Partner
Family Law
Christopher Valente
Partner, Construction Group
Cody F. Dolgay
Partner, Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group
Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Colby Linthwaite
Partner, Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group
Craig Vander Zee
Partner
Wills, Estates & Trusts
Dana Kalisky
Associate
Certified Specialists
A designation granted by the Law Society of Ontario, not a self-declared area of focus.
This firm’s lawyers at a glance
- Called to the bar
- 1974–2025 · median 16 years in practice 117 of 131 lawyers
- Law schools
- Osgoode Hall Law School (28), University of Toronto (21), Western University (19), Queen's University (16), University of Ottawa (9), University of Windsor (9) and 13 more 119 of 131 lawyers
- Languages on the roster
- Cantonese, English, French, Mandarin, Punjabi, Taiwanese
Who handles what
Where to find them
151 Yonge Street, Suite 1500, Toronto, ON M5C 2W7 · 416-863-1188
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