333 Bay St, Suite 3400, Bay Adelaide Ctr, W Twr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1982 (ON)
Counsel in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group and co-leads the Securities Litigation and Energy Groups at Goodmans. Corporate-commercial litigation practice focuses on business disputes, corporate governance, corporate finance, securities, financial services, and restructuring and insolvency. Class action practice includes securities, product liability and environmental claims. Also carries on a substantial electricity and regulatory practice, regularly representing clients before the OEB and courts. Has appeared at all levels of the Ontario, and other provincial, courts, and the Federal Courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Has represented many Fortune 500 companies and has been lead counsel on a number of high-profile domestic and cross-border cases. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Litigation Counsel of America. Former director and Past President of The Advocates' Society. Recognized by Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, Lexpert, Lexpert Special Edition: Energy and Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation, The Legal 500 Canada, Best Lawyers in Canada, Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Litigation Lawyers and Benchmark Canada. Named “Ontario Litigator of the Year” in 2022 and among “Top 50 Trial Lawyers in Canada” by Benchmark Canada.
Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel Canada) is the Canadian parent company of what was one of the largest telecommunications businesses in the world. In early 2009, formal insolvency proceedings were commenced in Canada, the United States and England, among other places. Nortel’s worldwide business was liquidated through a number of Court-approved sales of its business units and a US$4.5-billion sale of its residual patents, resulting in US$7.3 billion of global sale proceeds to be allocated amongst the Nortel debtor companies in Canada, the United States and Europe.
On June 30, 2017, Stelco Inc. (Stelco), formerly U.S. Steel Canada Inc., emerged from Companies’ Creditors Arrangements Act (CCAA) proceedings through the implementation of a CCAA plan. This involved the compromise of more than $2 billion of debt and the restructuring of approximately $2 billion of pension and benefit obligations.
Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) completed its acquisition of all outstanding common shares of InterOil Corporation (InterOil) on February 22, 2017. InterOil’s assets include the Elk-Antelope gas fields in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea and exploration licenses covering about 16,000 square kilometers in Papua New Guinea.
On March 6, 2015, a landlord group led by Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc. and Oxford Properties Group completed a transaction involving the termination of leases at 11 properties that had previously been leased by Target Canada Co. (Target), owner and operator of shopping centers, and a unit of Target Corp., for $138 million.
