Mandates

Successfully represented applicants in proceeding challenging the use of an unfair form of proxy in connection with a contested general meeting of a non-profit corporation.

Successful defence of claim alleging invention and ownership of proprietary Tim Card.

Counsel to defendant in a secondary-market securities class action alleging that the defendant company’s financial statements and other disclosure documents contained untrue representations.

Counsel to a large engineering firm in a complex, multi-party action involving Toronto’s electrical substation.

Successfully represented Republic of Estonia and Estonian Air in Ontario Court of Appeal establishing scope of commercial exception in State Immunity Act.

Counsel to Transport Canada in an application for judicial review concerning the refusal of an individual’s application for security clearance to work at Pearson Airport.

Counsel to the CCLA in a constitutional case which addressed whether physicians may refuse to provide a referral for certain medical services on religious grounds.

Acted for Canadian Bar Association in leading case concerning conflict of interest and scope of lawyer’s duty of loyalty.

Assisted financial institutions in placing complex billion-dollar cyber insurance programs.

Obtained an injunction against a candidate for a riding nomination who filed a transcript of a confidential settlement meeting and provided it to the press. Successfully defended appeal at the Divisio…