Chair Peter Auvinen was interviewed by Law.com International to offer his insight into the future of legal services for the Canadian mid-market and the impact of US law firm expansion into the country. He also discusses anticipated practice areas that are expected to drive growth for Miller Thomson, as well as how the firm’s entrepreneurial spirit is attracting new talent across our 10 offices.
… Midsize firms are seeing most of the action in the Canadian legal market right now and Miller Thomson illustrates the growth-minded attitude of firms that size. […]
In just the last seven months alone, the firm… has grown its corporate and M&A group in Vancouver, on Canada’s west coast, through the hire of a four-lawyer M&A team from a business law boutique and through the acquisition of boutique corporate commercial firm Zargar Lawyers. […]
Auvinen said the firm’s sweet spot is the midmarket, with most of the firm’s clients private, owner-operated companies with revenues up to a billion dollars. That’s the Canadian market segment seeing the most action right now …
