Mandates

Represented Sprott Asset Management LP and several other related entities in resisting an application before the Ontario Securities commission seeking to enjoin a takeover bid.

Negotiated a settlement of the action.

Successfully defended former chief financial officer of SNC-Lavalin Group in securities class action.

Successfully resolved claim regarding engineering design defects in structural foundations on a large infrastructure project.

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

Successfully represented trial counsel, leading authority on disqualification of counsel.

Retained as appeal counsel. Successfully represented the appellant in reversing the dismissal of certain of its claims at trial.

Defence counsel in a high profile class action involving the destruction of human biological reproductive materials arising from the failure of a cryopreservation storage tank.

Counsel to a town councillor for the Town of Oakville in a successful appeal of a decision of Oakville’s Joint Compliance Audit Committee authorizing a campaign finance compliance audit.

See: Asa v. University Health Network 2017 ONSC 4287, leave to appeal dismissed.