Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson

NST was founded in 1987. The firm's practice is limited to civil litigation with an emphasis on complex commercial disputes. The firm's strengths are high quality advocacy, intellectual rigour, flexibility in procedural matters and responsiveness to clients' needs.

Irwin Nathanson, Stephen Schachter and Ardella Thompson created the firm with one purpose in mind?to focus on trying difficult cases and arguing complicated appeals. Over the years, the firm has carefully added lawyers, and now boasts five Queen's Counsel and several former law clerks, including three former clerks to the Chief Justice of British Columbia. However, the firm's goal has never been growth for its own sake. It maintains Irwin Nathanson's vision of a select group of lawyers with the depth of talent and breadth of expertise to efficiently and effectively handle commercial disputes of all sizes and kinds.

NST's clients include successful private and public companies, many of whom are referred to us by leading Canadian and international law firms. NST regularly acts in the full range of commercial disputes, including contract disputes, shareholders' disputes, securities and oppression claims, hostile take-over bids and derivative actions, class actions and representative proceedings, mining claims, pension litigation, actions for professional negligence, administrative proceedings, defamation actions and employment disputes. The firm has also acted for the successful plaintiffs in two of Canada's most significant mining cases, Minera Aquiline Argentina SA v. IMA Exploration Inc., and Inmet Mining Corp. v. Homestake Canada Inc.

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Bankruptcy	2
Corporate	2
Corporate - Securities and Capital Markets	4
Environmental and Land Use	2
Government and Government Relations	3
Government Contracts	1
Labor & Employment	2
Litigation	3
Litigation - General (consumer)	16
Litigation - Securities Litigation	1
Other	3
Real Estate	1
Transportation	1
Trusts and Estates	1