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At the end of June 2001, the group wired US$1.2 million to Cassels Brock (a Canadian law firm), which was pooled with other funds and transferred to Tropos. A few months later, Tropos forwarded more than US$10 million to an offshore bank, [f] and the money disappeared. Hryniak (the principal of Tropos) claimed that at this point, Tropos's funds ...
Amidst all of these structural changes in the market, only three of the Seven Sisters underwent mergers — the aforementioned McCarthy in 1989–90, [40] Toronto's Davies Ward & Beck with Montreal's Phillips & Vineberg in 2000 [41] and Toronto's Tory & Tory with New York's Haythe & Curley in 2000 [42] [43] [44] — whilst the remainder decided to grow organically.
Since leaving politics, he has been a professor at York University in Toronto, a senior partner and chairman of the Toronto law firm Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LLP and has been director or member of several charitable, cultural, and environmental organizations. [36]
In 1953, the firm's name was changed to Blake, Cassels & Graydon. [5] In 1998, the firm opened an office in Beijing. [6] In 2003, Blakes created the Daily Bread Toronto Law Firm Challenge, [7] which engages a number of Toronto law firms to raise money for the Daily Bread Food Bank.
Cassels is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andrew Cassels (born 1969), Canadian former ice hockey player; Elsie Cassels (1864–1938), Scottish born naturalist and Canadian ornithologist; John Franklin Cassels (1852–1930), member of the Mississippi House of Representatives; John William Scott Cassels (1922–2015), English ...
McCarthy Tétrault LLP is a leading Canadian law firm that delivers integrated business law, litigation services, tax law, real property law, labour and employment law nationally and globally through offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal, Québec City, London (UK), as well as New York City. [1]
Cassels was born in Quebec City, the son of the banker and businessman Robert Cassels. He was educated at Quebec High School and the University of Toronto, graduating with a BA in 1865. He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1869, and practiced at Blake, Lash, Cassels. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1883.
Walter Rolleston Lightfoot Blackwell (September 26, 1890 – January 21, 1957) was a Canadian architect known for his work in Peterborough, Ontario, and a number of Bank of Toronto branches across Ontario. He was the son of William Blackwell and an early partner of Eberhard Zeidler.