Pat Boucher and Roger Taplin named among Canadian Lawyer’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada for 2025

McCarthy Tétrault partners Pat Boucher and Roger Taplin have been named among Canadian Lawyer’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada for 2025. Both Pat and Roger were recognized in the Business category.

The list celebrates their transformative work shaping the law and improving legal services, as well as and their wider impact on the legal community and Canadian society. Pat and Roger have recently been involved in some of Canada’s largest and most complex transactions. Their reputations for delivering strategic and innovative legal and business solutions to complex mandates is unmatched.

Pat is a partner in the Business Law Group in Montréal and Co-head of the firm's National Capital Markets Practice. Known for his business acumen and ability to provide practical solutions to complex issues, Pat’s practice is primarily focused in the areas of securities, capital markets, public and private mergers and acquisitions and corporate law, with a concentration on private equity, pension funds and financial institutions. He was most recently involved with National Bank of Canada’s C$1 billion financing and C$5 billion acquisition of Canadian Western Bank,La Caisse’s C$10 billion acquisition of Innergex and La Caisse’s arrangement to sell and roll over the majority of its equity in Nuvei Corporation to Advent International in connection with the US$6.3 billion acquisition, iA Financial Corporation in its proposed acquisition of RF Capital Group for approximately $597 million, and Ovivo in the proposed acquisition by Ecolab of its electronics business for approximately $2.4 billion.

Roger is a partner in our Vancouver office and Co-leader of our Global Metals & Mining Group. He works with some of the world’s biggest miners and their financiers on both domestic and international transactions, providing novel solutions to complicated multijurisdictional mandates in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, metal streaming, and other financings. With recent geopolitical trends upending traditional trade arrangements around the world, Roger has been indispensable in helping clients map out new pathways to growth. He recently advised Glencore on its US$7.3 billion acquisition of Teck’s Elk Valley Resources steelmaking coal business; Gold Fields’ C$2.16 billion acquisition of Osisko Mining; Royal Gold on its US$1 billion streaming deal with First Quantum; China Molybdenum on its C$581 million acquisition of Lumina Gold; Paulson & Co. Inc., in its US$1.1 billion joint acquisition with NovaGold of Barrick Gold’s 50% stake at the Donlin Gold Project; and Royal Gold’s agreement to acquire Sandstrom Gold and Horizon Copper, one of the world’s largest mining M&A deals this year at US$3.7 billion.

Both Pat and Roger are consistently recognized by the most distinguished awards and directories, including Band 1 rankings from Chambers and Partners in their respective practice areas, and they continue to set the benchmark for professionalism, collegiality, and excellence.

About McCarthy Tétrault

McCarthy Tétrault LLP provides a broad range of legal services, providing strategic and industry-focused advice and solutions for Canadian and international interests. The firm has a substantial presence in Canada’s major commercial centres as well as in New York City and London.

Built on an integrated approach to the practice of law and delivery of innovative client services, the firm brings its legal talent, industry insight and practice experience to help clients achieve the results that are important to them.

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