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May 5, 2023:
TDS Wins Top Referring Firm for 2022 Award in the 101-200 Lawyer Firm Category


Lex Mundi has named TDS as winners for the “Top Referring Firm for 2022” in the 101-200 lawyer firm category. This Lex Mundi award recognizes firms that have made the greatest number of outbound referrals to other Lex Mundi members during the last calendar year.

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Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP is the exclusive member firm in Manitoba for Lex Mundi – the world’s leading network of independent law firms with in-depth experience in more than 125 countries worldwide.

Lex Mundi brings the best together – law firms, lawyers, and business professionals – to provide world-class cross-border legal solutions. Member firms offer a global resource of unmatched breadth and depth, with over 22,000 lawyers worldwide.

Lex Mundi selects the top independent law firm in each jurisdiction based on leadership in, and commitment to, its local market and requires its members to maintain this level of excellence to retain
membership.

Lex Mundi ensures that member firms collaborate closely to provide on-the-ground expertise and experience in every global market, wherever their clients need to operate. Coupled with innovative, collaborative software, clients receive a seamless worldwide service from Lex Mundi member firms, able to handle their most challenging cross-border transactions and disputes.

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With Equisphere, you design your bespoke international legal team - with the best lawyers in the jurisdictions that match your unique footprint, tailored to your most significant legal challenges.

Equisphere enables you to successfully negotiate the legal landscape, across international boundaries, uniquely combining:

  • collaborative technology
  • lean-agile work methodologies, and
  • professional account management

Equisphere offers orchestrated, on-the-ground legal support for time-critical decisions and action steps – whether your company is:

  • restructuring operations and business partnerships
  • crossing into adjacent sectors
  • expanding in different markets
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  • undertaking sensitive investigations

Lex Mundi Equisphere Case Study: Ag Growth International Inc.
Ag Growth  was on a fast-paced growth strategy across disperse jurisdictions. With a lean legal team, AGI needed high quality, full-service legal advice delivered in every location.

To accomplish its growth strategy, the company had to rely on trusted counsel in jurisdictions where it expanded (organically or via strategic acquisitions) in order to support its successful operations.

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“TDS has been our gateway to Lex Mundi globally, which has been excellent. Through Lex Mundi Equisphere we have been able to access quality counsel in over 15 different global jurisdictions as needed to support our global growth strategy and international business units.  The strength of each of the Lex Mundi firms allows us to turn to them for support in key areas such as M&A, corporate support, regulatory and finance matters both internationally and domestically. In each instance we have experienced world-class service. This in turn has allowed us to rely on Lex Mundi Equisphere for support globally as we trust that their member firms will provide us the best possible legal assistance where we require it."
- Brent Kendall, Director, Legal - Ag Growth International

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