Smart & Biggar makes a strong showing with 17 practitioners listed in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2019

Who’s Who Legal: Canada recently published their 2019 guide, naming 17 Smart & Biggar lawyers and agents among Canada’s leading experts in Patents, Patent Agency, Trademarks, and Life Sciences.

Of the list of our highly successful practitioners, four were awarded with the additional recognition of being “Most Highly Regarded”. Gunars Giakis, received this distinction as only one of four Canadian Life Sciences Practitioners. David Schwartz and Matthew Zischka were two of four Canadians to be recognized as “Most Highly Regarded” for patents, and Mark Evens was one of four Canadians to achieve this ranking for Trademarks.

Recognized for Life Sciences: Alice Tseng, Gunars Gaikis, Steven Garland, Sheldon Hamilton and Nancy Pei.

Recognized for Patents: Gunars Gaikis, François Guay, Steven Garland, Sheldon Hamilton, Nancy Pei, Stephan Georgiev, John Knox, Daphne Lainson, David Schwartz, Oliver Stone, Matthew Zischka and Yoon Kang.

Recognized for Trademarks: François Guay, Christian Bolduc, Mark Evans, Philip Lapin and Keltie Sim Luft.

Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2019’s Full Rankings can be found here.

Smart & Biggar is recognised as Canada’s largest and leading firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. As leaders in intellectual property and technology law Smart & Biggar has been serving clients for over a century.