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Practice Highlights
Representative Arbitration Appointments (as Chair of tribunal, sole arbitrator or party nominee)
- sale of a business (travel industry, forest products industry, food industry)
- dispute re agreement relating to licensing of wireless technology
- termination of a telecom interconnect agreement
- investor/state dispute regarding a telecom investment
- executive termination
- auditors liability
- termination of government contracts
- commercial lease disputes
- shareholder dispute
- patent dispute (agricultural product)
- disputes relating to termination of international distribution and licensing agreements (clothing industry, auto parts, health foods, construction products)
- professional partnership disputes (medical and accounting)
- insurance coverage disputes (D & O insurance, telecommunications outage)
- dispute re privatization of a government business
- dispute re lease of a nuclear facility
- dispute re production of nuclear medicines
- software license disputes
- sale of goods and services (jet engines, chemical agents, construction products, computer services)
Representative Mediation Appointments
- Investment dispute (micro energy project)
- Supply agreement (securities industry)
- Insurance coverage dispute (D & O insurance, commercial liability)
- Commercial debt
- Family business (construction products, auction business)
- Construction project (nuclear facility)
- Dispute re investment advice
- Dispute re commercial lease
- Class actions (product liability, securities)
- Shareholder disputes
- Partnership disputes
- Environmental disputes
- Sale of land
- Professional liability (accounting, legal, investment advice)
- Goods and services (alternative energy systems, aircraft retrofit)
Med/Arb Appointments
- Sale of a business under Court order
Representative Counsel Work
- Served as outside counsel to the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
- Strategized
and ran Cayman Island
proceedings in Government of Ontario litigation relating to Crown Trust
and other trust companies involved in impugned mortgage transactions
- Represented
one of the two major
creditors in extensive litigation relating to and arising out of the
insolvency and restructuring of Olympia & York
- Represented
the Michigan Commissioner of
Insurance in extensive litigation relating to the winding up of
Confederation Life Insurance Company
- Represented
the government of Trinidad
and Tobago in successful proceedings to recover corrupt payments made
under a former regime
- Represented
land owners in a successful
lawsuit against the Government of Ontario establishing the historic
boundary between their land and a navigable body of water
- Represented
the Federation of Law
Societies of Canada in successful proceedings to challenge the
constitutional validity of money laundering legislation related to the
legal profession
- Represented
key outside directors of
Canadian Commercial Bank in proceedings arising from the insolvency of
that Bank and co-operatively strategized global resolution of the
litigation
- Represented
both the Chairman and CEO of
Leigh Instruments in litigation arising from the insolvency of that
company resulting in the claim being withdrawn prior to a lengthy trial
- Represented
a major concession company in
recovering substantial damages from the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club
and Sky Dome Corporation for wrongful termination of stadium concession
contract
- Represented
reinsurance captives of two
major corporations in legal disputes arising from the insolvency of
Cardinal Insurance
- Represented
Chiefs of Ontario (the
coordinating body for First Nations in Ontario) at the Public Inquiry
into the shooting death of Dudley George
- Represented
and advised the CFO of a
major public corporation with respect to an Ontario Securities
Commission investigation, resulting in the investigation and
proceedings related thereto being dropped
- Represented
an Italian telecom company in
successfully enforcing an international arbitration award resulting in
a leading court decision on the subject
- Represented
defendant in the first class
action trial in Ontario
- Successfully
resisted certification of
class action relating to marketing of mortgages by a major bank
- Represented
a major accounting firm in
obtaining the dismissal of a professional negligence action
- Successfully
represented a major forest products company in a significant cost
sharing dispute relating to environmental measures
- Advised various corporations with respect to the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act
- Defending class actions re credit card cash advances and pension rights on sale of a business
- Defending indemnity claim re sale of a national life insurance business
- Representing co-generation facility host against the operator of the facility regarding issues of force majeure and economic dispatch
- Representing and advising senior officers of public companies re claims and potential claims
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