Mandates

Successfully represented defendant in Ontario Court of Appeal, jurisdictional boundary between provincial and federal business corporation statutes.

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

Counsel to an international accounting firm in connection with various regulatory matters.

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

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.

Acted on a secondary-market securities class action alleging that the defendant company’s financial statements and other disclosure documents contained untrue representations.

Counsel to grandparents in child custody and access rights litigation under the Child and Family Services Act. Case reference: 2018 ONCJ 14

Represented Canadian Civil Liberties Association in the Supreme Court of Canada, constitutionality of police roadblocks for search and seizure in emergencies.

Successfully obtained a Mareva injunction against offshore hedge funds and related parties and assisted clients in a related OSC proceeding.

Acted for the Information Technology Association of Canada in an intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada involving the enforceability of online forum selection clauses in consumer agreements.

Successfully represented Canadian Civil Liberties Association in Supreme Court of Canada, constitutionality of publication bans in bail proceedings.

Rock Developments sold its fitness centre business to the plaintiff, Goodlife Fitness. Rock Developments also owned three parcels of undeveloped land in the Windsor area. Rock Developments granted Goo…