About Torys LLP

Torys LLP traces its history to J.S.D. Tory and Associates, a corporate law practice John Stewart Donald Tory started in Toronto in 1941, after training at Osgoode Hall and earning a doctorate in law at Harvard. Tory's twin sons, John A. Tory and James M. Tory, joined the firm along with two law school classmates in 1954, and it was renamed Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington. The firm built a litigation practice through the 1960s and 70s, including a 1972 merger with the litigation firm Kimber, Dubin, led by Charles L. Dubin, who later became Chief Justice of Ontario. In 2000, the firm merged with a New York corporate firm whose predecessor dated to 1948, and it took its current name, Torys LLP.

Torys is now a full-service business law firm headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax and New York. Its practice spans corporate and M&A work, litigation and class actions, tax, real estate, employment and labour law, intellectual property and Indigenous law, and its lawyers regularly advise on matters that cross the Canada-U.S. border. The firm says 81% of its Canadian partners are ranked by Chambers Canada, and that 85% of its work involves collaboration across more than one practice group.

In the community

  • Torys created a three-year, fully funded scholarship for a first-year Indigenous law student starting in 2021, in partnership with Ryerson University's Lincoln Alexander School of Law and Indspire's Building Brighter Futures program.
  • The firm's Pro Bono Committee has said Torys lawyers and staff dedicated 6,000 hours of work to pro bono causes in a recent year.
  • In Toronto, the firm has longstanding relationships with Special Olympics Ontario, SickKids, St. Joseph's Foundation and Mount Sinai Hospital.
  • The firm has provided pro bono securities-regulatory advice to MaRS VX (MaRS Social Venture Connexion), described as Canada's first online capital-raising platform, since it started, and has advised the Toronto food-security organization FoodShare on corporate governance and leasing matters for its Community Food Hub.
  • After five years of pro bono advocacy, the firm's pro bono team helped bring changes to Canada's No Fly List aimed at better identifying threats without trapping people who pose none.

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This firm’s lawyers at a glance

Called to the bar
1970–2025 · median 10 years in practice 275 of 299 lawyers
Law schools
Osgoode (43), Queen's University (10), University of Toronto (10), Western University (6), Dalhousie University (3), University of Ottawa (3) and 8 more 86 of 299 lawyers
Languages on the roster
Albanian, Urdu

Who handles what

Offices 5

79 Wellington Street West, Box 270, TD South Tower, Toronto, Ontario M5K 1N2

525 8th Avenue SW, 46th Floor, Eighth Avenue Place East, Calgary, Alberta T2P 1G1

1 Place Ville Marie, Suite 2880, Montréal, Québec H3B 4R4

1871 Hollis Street, Suite 200, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 0C3

New York (USA)

1114 Avenue of the Americas, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10036-7703, USA

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