David Kent is a senior partner in the firm's litigation, competition/antitrust, and intellectual property groups. His practice emphasizes complex litigation involving competition, IP, commercial, regulatory, and securities and governance disputes in a wide variety of industries. He has extensive experience in international, cross-border, and domestic cartels, conspiracies, and class actions. He has been defence counsel in some of the largest Canadian criminal cartel prosecutions, and in a wide variety of civil cartel cases including vitamins, linerboard, copper futures, computer components (including DRAM, SRAM, Flash, and LCD and CRT monitors), e-books, credit cards, Gmail, SSA bonds, and auto parts. His class action experience arises from over 70 Canadian cases and includes precedent-setting decisions on a wide range of issues including conspiracy, securities law, cartel jurisdiction, damages, cross-border discovery, and class action certification and settlement. He has also advised on and litigated copyright issues for online streaming services, social media sites, and domestic and international broadcasters and cable networks for over 35 years, including issues arising from the use of music on the internet.
