Matthew Gottlieb

Select Representative Mandates

• Hudson’s Bay Company, Re, 2025

  Acted for KingSett Capital Inc., a landlord to multiple Hudson’s Bay Company stores, in a complex CCAA proceeding involving Canada’s oldest retailer.

• Condoman Developments v. Cannect International Mortgage, 2025 CanLII 21032 (ON SC)

  Acting for a mortgage lender on a claim for a borrower’s failure to repay several mortgage loans totalling more than $46 million.

• Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited, 2025 ONSC 1358

  Acted for the Court appointed mediator in the $32 billion settlement of CCAA proceedings for several tobacco companies.

• Unity Health Toronto v. 2442931 Ontario Inc., 2025 ONCA 93

  Acted for a syndicate of lenders in a multi-party litigation claim relating to a DBF P3 hospital redevelopment.

• Ottawa (City) v. ClubLink Corporation ULC, 2025 ONCA 34

  Successful in striking down a contract between a landowner and the City of Ottawa that restrict urban development on Kanata lands, and require the continued operation of a golf course on those lands.

• Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation v. Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto, 2024 ONCA 933

  Successfully quashing a motion brought by donor seeking leave to appeal from the Superior Court of Justice’s dismissal of the donor’s challenge of an arbitrator’s jurisdiction motion decision.

• Stronach v. Stronach et al., 2024 ONSC 4524

  Secured a settlement in the action brought by Selena Stronach against Belinda Stronach and other members of the Stronach family over control of and rights to the family wealth.

• Infor Financial Inc. v. CentriLogic, Inc., 2024 ONCA 849

  Counsel at trial and on appeal for the successful plaintiff/respondent, an investment bank, in a dispute related to a financing fee under an agreement.

• MBL Administrative Agent II LLC et al. v. Trade X Group of Companies Inc. et al., 2024 ONSC 3734

  Successfully defended a court-appointed receiver in resisting a stay application for the inadvertent access of purportedly privileged communications.

• One of the Largest Cross-Border Commercial Litigation and Insolvency Mandates in Recent History

  Counsel to the Sackler Families in the Purdue Pharma CCAA proceeding, a proposed national class action, and two proposed class actions brought by the First Nations and Municipalities across Canada.