Fasken Martineau ranks among the three largest law firms in Canada. With 700 lawyers, we are known for our strength and expertise in financial services, corporate finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, energy, mining, environmental law, aboriginal affairs, taxation, communications, competition, litigation, arbitration, labour and employment law, human rights, intellectual property and information technology law.
Recognized in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers for the last five years as the #1 firm worldwide in mining law, Fasken Martineau is also acknowledged in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Environment Lawyers as the top firm in Canada in environmental law. The prestigious The Best Lawyers in Canada 2010 directory lists 96 of the firm's lawyers as experts in various areas of practice. Additionally, the firm ranked third among law firms globally in the number of Canadian M&A transactions announced in 2009 on which it advised, as reported by both Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg.
Fasken Martineau is a pre-eminent litigation firm. Our lawyers served as counsel in three of the top ten business cases considered by Lexpert to have made the most significant and wide-ranging impact on the business community in 2009. Our lawyers are widely recognized for their strengths and expertise in a variety of corporate commercial and other litigation matters. We are also one of the finest class action defence firms, having defended our clients in more than 100 class actions representing the majority of significant cases in Canada.
Fasken Martineau has been named a top corporate dealmaker by Lexpert, representing clients in three of the top corporate deals of 2009, is consistently distinguished in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, the prestigious Chamber's Global Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers, and the International Financial Law Review's Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms.
These recognitions underscore the fact that our lawyers are acknowledged leaders in their fields of expertise with well-deserved reputations that set our firm apart.
The practice of law is a demanding one, and at a Canadian-based international law firm, the demands are even greater. The range of our clients' challenges has broadened dramatically, often with multi-jurisdictional complexity as businesses now compete on a distinctly global stage.
To respond effectively and bring real and lasting benefit to our clients with the work we do and the advice we provide, we are guided by an important set of values. These values define Fasken Martineau. With them in mind, we serve our clients, our profession and our community. These values drive our decisions about the people we hire and about the direction our practice will take in the future.