79 Wellington St W, Suite 3000, Box 270, TD Ctr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1995 (ON)
Dennis is the head of Torys’ environmental, health, and safety practice, co-chairman of the firm’s interdisciplinary climate change and emissions trading practice, and certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a specialist in environmental law. Dennis provides comprehensive environmental, health, and safety advice to a broad range of public- and private-sector clients, including public and private companies, federal government agencies, Crown corporations, provincial bodies, and municipalities. The scope of his counsel covers virtually every industrial sector: transportation, utilities, non-renewable and renewable energy, pulp and paper, mining, chemicals and plastics, water and wastewater treatment and disposal, manufacturing, financial institutions, and real estate development. Dennis also assists buyers, sellers, lenders, and investors through all environmental aspects of a transaction – from acquisition diligence and agreement negotiation, to the design and coordination of deal-specific environmental liability assessments, the negotiation of agreements, and the handling closing and post-closing details.
