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  • Bombardier Inc. v. AS Estonian Air, 2014 ONCA 41

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

  • Successfully represented UWO a precedent-setting insurance case regarding insurance allocation issues

  • 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

  • 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.