London-based World Finance magazine named Stikeman Elliott as the 2008 Best Corporate & Commercial Team in Canada and Chambers Global identifies it as one of Canada's two top-tier Corporate/M&A practices. The firm is frequently ranked among Canada's leaders in domestic and cross-border M&A league tables from Thomson Financial, Mergermarket and Mergerstat Review. Stikeman Elliott is also the leading adviser in Canadian securities offerings, ranking first from 2005 to 2008 (inclusive) in Bloomberg league tables in terms of overall volume, as well as receiving top rankings from the Financial Post. The firm's National Litigation Group, whose specializations include class actions, securities litigation and restructurings, has been ranked among the top three business litigation practices in Canada by Lexpert. Among Stikeman Elliott's other highly regarded practices are competition/antitrust (named as a leader by the Global Competition Review), taxation (highly ranked by Lexpert) and structured finance (widely considered to be Canada's foremost practice in that field). The firm is also well known for its extensive regulatory and government relations expertise; the latter anchored by its office in Ottawa.

Because Stikeman Elliott has grown through internal expansion, rather than through mergers, the firm's clients can expect a consistently high level of service from each of its eight offices. Its offices frequently work together on major transactions and litigation files, and regularly collaborate with prominent U.S. and international law firms on cross-border transactions of global significance. The firm has invested heavily in leading-edge knowledge management systems in order to assure our clients of advice of the highest quality, grounded in the accumulated expertise of Stikeman Elliott's national and international practice.