OUR EXPERTISE IS YOUR BUSINESS

TRUSTED COUNSEL FOR
INSTITUTIONAL CLIENTS

A large part of PHM's practice involves acting as legal counsel for institutional clients, including banks, credit unions, insurance and reinsurance companies. Over the years, the consistent quality of our legal work has earned us the trust of multinational insurance companies and Canadian Chartered banks, as well as credit unions, trust companies and Provincial municipalities; each of whom typically work with law firms many times our size.

Our lawyers provide legal advice for these institutional clients in the areas of:

• insurance defence
• commercial and fraud litigation
• commercial and residential lending
• contract enforcement, debt collection and mortgage remedies
• bankruptcy litigation

ADVISORY SERVICE FOR
BUSINESS CLIENTS

Many of PHM's lawyers are recognized leaders in their chosen areas of law. We have extensive experience in providing business clients with straightforward advice and practical solutions in the areas of:

• business, corporate and commercial law
• franchising law
• residential and commercial real estate
• residential and commercial mortgage lending
• municipal and land development law
• alternative dispute resolution
• civil litigation
• bankruptcy

SOPHISTICATED LEGAL
ADVICE FOR PRIVATE CLIENTS

PHM also provides strategic advice and legal representation for individual clients to help them with their legal needs in the areas of:

• wrongful dismissal for executive-level employees
• litigation involving large and complex wills and estates
• debt recovery involving fraudulent conveyances and fraudulent preferences (whether in or outside of bankruptcy)
• litigation defence for high net worth individuals facing asset seizure or other aggressive guarantee and debt collection efforts

PERSONALIZED SERVICE IN
OUR SMALL-FIRM SETTING

Over the decades, PHM has crafted a style of practice that has earned us a consistent reputation for excellence — both in law and in client service. By keeping our firm compact and tight-knit, we can impart to each client such tangible benefits as:

• direct access to a lawyer without having to navigate multiple levels of bureaucracy
• an efficient and responsive staff that personally and promptly answer phone calls and reply to emails
• competitively priced advice of the highest quality