We are involved in every facet of bankruptcy law. Our practice includes acting for trustees in bankruptcy, debtors and creditors. We routinely provide the following services:
Members of our Estates and Trust litigation group are well versed in issues involving estate planning and trust administration, and are experienced in mediating or litigating those issues. We provide clients with the consistency and continuity required to bring estate and trust controversies to successful conclusions.
We represent clients in a variety of cases, including, but not limited to:
Whether we are representing institutional trustees or individuals in disputes between beneficiaries, we tailor our litigation strategies to resolve the dispute favorably and expeditiously.
Our team of corporate and tax lawyers will help you effectively structure and restructure commercial enterprises, in virtually all industries. You need effective, responsive advice, and we provide this in a comprehensive manner to ensure that your tax and other corporate objectives are addressed. We possess the knowledge and experience to address all aspects of corporate, commercial and Canadian tax matters and planning and can provide you with advice relating to:
Once our clients have acquired or developed intellectual property rights, it is essential to enforce such rights in order to maintain them. We assist our clients with every type of intellectual property litigation, including patent, copyright, trademark, and industrial design infringement actions, confidential information actions, cancellation proceedings, post-grant proceedings, passing off actions, domain name actions and complaint proceedings, and any other proceedings necessary to protect and enforce intellectual property rights, or to defend such proceedings which may be commenced against our clients. We also act in judicial review proceedings taken from decisions of the Registrar of Trade-marks or the Commissioner of Patents. Finally, we protect our clients’ rights in administrative proceedings decided by the Trade-marks Office and the Patent Office.
Our litigation lawyers have wide ranging experience in securities and broker/dealer proceedings and the breadth of remedies sought in securities cases. We are able to creatively and persuasively present or defend such claims on behalf of our clients.
We have represented investment dealers, mutual fund dealers, registered representatives, salespersons, compliance professionals and other market participants.
We have represented investment dealers, mutual fund dealers, registered representatives, salespersons, compliance professionals and other market participants.
Our securities litigators have been involved in a variety of securities-related litigation matters, including:
Our litigators have wide ranging experience in securities and broker/dealer proceedings. We have extensive experience with the breadth of remedies that are sought in securities cases. We are able to creatively and persuasively present or defend such claims on behalf of our clients.
Our clients include brokers/dealers, individual investors, individual registrants and private and public companies. We also advise market participants in proceedings before securities commissions, stock exchanges, and self-regulatory organizations.
Our securities litigators have been involved in a variety of high-profile securities-related litigation matters, including:
Our Real Estate litigation group is committed to finding the most favourable, cost effective solutions to real property disputes.
We represent vendors, purchasers, developers, builders, financial institutions, investors, financial brokers, contractors, owners, condominium corporations and board members in a wide variety of disputes, involving, but not limited to:
From litigation involving tenants, landlords, subtenants, licensees, property managers, and related parties, through alternate dispute resolution, our sole objective is to achieve the best possible solution for our clients in the most cost effective manner possible.
We understand that litigation is bad for business. That’s why our Corporate and Commercial Litigation team is experienced, aggressive and results oriented. Knowing our clients’ business and their interests in any particular dispute has allowed us to manage and direct the dispute to the desired outcome. Our lawyers have successfully represented individuals, partnerships and corporations of all sizes in commercial disputes through appearances before all levels of courts and tribunals.
Our lawyers are also well versed with all modes of alternate dispute resolution including arbitrations and mediations. We spare no effort and overlook no detail when preparing a litigation strategy in consultation with our clients. To that end, we are able to provide creative and high quality advice to resolve disputes favourably, so our clients can do what they do best – carry on with running their businesses.
Cases in which our litigators are frequently involved include:
Our Employment and Labour group is committed to addressing our clients’ needs efficiently and effectively. In keeping with our client-centred approach, our lawyers prepare and outline strategies offering imaginative, creative and practical advice with a view to achieving an early and favourable resolution of disputes. If settlement is not possible, our experienced lawyers and sophisticated support facilities allow us to forcibly advocate on our clients’ behalf throughout the litigation process, at a reasonable cost.
To complement our employment litigation practice, our employment and labour lawyers provide opinions on various matters and represent clients in a wide variety of commercial and contractual disputes as well.
Our practice encompasses all aspects of employment litigation including:
Patents and Industrial Designs are valuable assets of a business. You need to ensure that your Patents and Industrial Designs are available, protected, properly used, maintained and enforced, both in Canada and around the world, so that you are taking advantage of the most up to date protection, and so that your ability to compete is not threatened. We advise businesses on:
