DWF Group’s Canadian firm Whitelaw Twining is launching a Montreal office in the new year with the insurance litigation team of Bélanger Sauvé, the firms announced Thursday.

Montreal will be Whitelaw Twining’s fourth office in Canada along with Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary. The new office will operate as WT Montreal LLP and strengthen the firm’s expertise and resources to support clients nationally and internationally, said Danny Shugarman, Whitelaw Twining’s managing partner.