Anne K. Gallop

Partner Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

Toronto +1 416 216 4038

Anne K. Gallop

Anne Gallop practises in all areas of employment and labour law, including wrongful dismissal, human rights and disability management.

She routinely advises on all aspects of employment policies, ensuring compliance with the various legislative regimes. Anne also has significant experience in corporate reorganizations and corporate mergers and acquisitions, where she advises on the labour, employment and employee privacy issues arising from such transactions. She routinely advises on employment and executive employment contracts, including executive compensation such as change of control agreements and stock option plans. Anne also has extensive experience with privacy legislation as it relates to labour and employment matters.

Professional experience

Representative experience

Anne has recently acted for the following clients:

McKesson Canada in the acquisition of Patient Direct Group and Specialized Health Care Corporation, an Oakville, Ontario-based specialty and biological drug distribution, patient support and direct-to-patient drug dispensing business
Domtar Corporation in the sale of its forest products business to EACOM Timber Corporation for approximately $127 million
Nortel in its multijurisdictional insolvency proceedings including its agreement to sell its global Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions business to GENBAND
Kingsway Financial Services Inc. in connection with a definitive purchase agreement to sell all of the issued and outstanding shares of Jevco Insurance Company to The Westaim Corporation
Groupe Aeroplan in its US$175-million acquisition of Carlson Marketing Worldwide
HearUSA Inc. in the sale of its Canadian subsidiaries' assets to Helix Inc. for over $28 million

Rankings and recognitions

Best Lawyers in Canada: Labour and Employment Law, 2024 -2025
Chambers Canada, Ontario: Employment and Labour, Chambers and Partners, 2023-2025
Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers, 2024-2025
Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2020, 2022-2025: recommended in Employment Law (Employer); 2022-2023: Workplace Human Rights (Employer)