John M. Picone

John M. Picone is the National Chair of the Advocacy Practice at Cassels. He is also the Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Group. His practice focuses on complex securities, corporate, and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on shareholder disputes, class actions, and securities-related regulatory proceedings and investigations. John takes a strategic, practical, and results-oriented approach to highly complicated disputes, while focussing on business needs and the big picture. He has extensive experience representing public companies, directors and senior executives, and shareholders across numerous industries, especially in urgent litigation. John has argued appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and regularly appears before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) and the Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal.