Mandates

Successfully defended an application seeking judicial review of a Ontario Municipal Board decision approving a large-scale development.

Successfully represented borrower at trial and in British Columbia Court of Appeal, duty of borrower to draw down on executed special purpose credit agreement.

Acted for receiver in leading case on appropriate method of distribution of investors’ funds in Ponzi scheme.

Successfully represented the construction consortium building the first phase of Ottawa’s light rail transit system in a multi-faceted damage and delay claim against the project’s insurers.

Ongoing representation of a defendant in a $1 billion class action alleging price-fixing in the foreign exchange market, including successfully preventing the plaintiff from accessing foreign discover…

Counsel to a charitable educational institution in litigation arising from alleged claims of breach of fiduciary duty by former directors, mortgage enforcement and related insolvency proceedings.

Counsel to one of the respondents in a lengthy proceeding before the Ontario Securities Commission following the freezing of the non-bank asset-backed commercial paper market in August 2007.

Successfully defended motion to quash an appeal of an arbitral costs award on jurisdictional grounds.

Successfully resisted partial summary judgment in an ongoing $400 million dispute regarding the interpretation of the terms of a joint-venture agreement.