Mandates

Represented the Director of a Public Company in a Breach of Contract and Wrongful Termination Action

Cyber Insurance Expertise

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

Acting for a senior executive in connection with claims for wrongful dismissal and $10 million in unpaid performance-based compensation

Acted as investigator for the Ontario Hockey League in its investigation of the ownership of the Flint Michigan Firebirds

Praxair Canada Inc.

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.

Canadian Western Bank v. Alberta (2007), 281 D.L.R. (4th) 125, [2007] 2 S.C.R. 3, 2007 SCC 22

Federalism appeal concerning banks’ constitutional challenge to provincial ability to apply market conduct regulation to promotion and distribution of certain types of insurance.

Leavens et al. v Schwartz

Successful in enforcing a buy/sell clause in a USA before the Commercial List.

Advised a health services company on media relations resulting in a published retraction in a major Canadian newspaper

1176560 Ontario Ltd. v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Company of Canada Ltd., 2002 CanLII 6199 (ON SC)

Successfully represented plaintiffs in leading authority on enjoining defendant misconduct during class action certification period.

Ruparell v. J.H. Cochrane Investments Inc. et al., 2021 ONCA 880

Obtained a $5 million judgment for breach of an oral contract for the purchase and sale of a Volkswagen dealership and surrounding land in Markham, Ontario.

Acting for a company in a claim brought against it relating to alleged sexual misconduct by an employee

Walsh Construction Company Canada v. Toronto Transit Commission and Regional Municipality of York

Representing the Regional Municipality of York in a large construction dispute relating to the development of Steeles West Station and the defence of subcontractor claims valued at over $50 million.