The Lexpert Guides to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate and Litigation Lawyers in Canada profiles leading business lawyers and features articles for attorneys and in-house counsel in the US about business law issues in Canada.
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CLASS ACTION Alan L.W. D'Silva Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5204 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto adsilva@stikeman.com Senior partner in the Toronto office's Litigation Group. Recognized by Canadian Lawyer in 2013 as one of the 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada. Diverse commercial litigation practice with extensive trial and appeal experience before all levels of courts in Ontario, the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. Practice emphasizes defence of class actions, corporate/commercial disputes, securities, shareholder/oppression cases, insurance, auditors' negligence, professional negligence and directors' & officers' liability. Frequently acts in significant public policy and constitutional matters. Numerous recognitions, including The Best Lawyers in Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, and Corporate INTL's "50 Best Lawyers in Canada." Frequent speaker and author of more than 50 legal articles and co-author of two legal texts. Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario and University of Toronto, and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. Michael A. Eizenga Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (416) 777-4879 Fax: (416) 863-1716 Toronto eizengam@bennettjones.com Sandra A. Forbes Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5574 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto sforbes@dwpv.com Michael Eizenga is Chair of Bennett Jones' Class Actions Practice. A fellow of the ACTL, Eizenga is one of Canada's leading class action litigators and is recognized in Chambers Global, The Best Lawyers in Canada and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, as well as The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. Among other published works, Eizenga is co-author of Class Actions Law and Practice. Eizenga is Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, teaching Class Actions. He has presented to organizations such as the International Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association, The Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Institute and The Advocates' Society. He currently sits on the Board of the Toronto Rehabilitation Foundation. Litigation partner. Broad commercial litigation practice, including class actions defence, securities and competition litigation. Appeared before all levels of court in various Canadian provinces, the Federal Court and Supreme Court of Canada and various tribunals including Competition Tribunal, Ontario Securities Commission and Patented Medicines Prices Review Board. Defence counsel in various class actions (including Vitamins, Air Cargo, LCD Panels, Chocolate, Optical Disk Drives); counsel in various competition proceedings (including United Grain Growers' acquisition of Agricore Cooperative, the criminal prosecution relating to the chocolate confectionary industry, and Commissioner's application against Toronto Real Estate Board). Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Past President, The Advocates' Society. Member, Editorial Board, Ontario Reports. Adjunct Faculty, University of Toronto Law School in Advanced Advocacy. LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School. Law clerk to Justice Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada. Admitted to Ontario Bar (1992). Jeff W. Galway Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (416) 863-3859 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto jeff.galway@blakes.com Jeff Galway is a senior trial and appellate counsel whose practice focuses on class action defence, securities, corporate/commercial, pensions and competition litigation. Galway has appeared before courts in five Canadian provinces, as well as the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. Galway is a frequent speaker on class action and other litigation-related topics. For many years, he was an instructor of a program jointly sponsored by Osgoode Professional Development and The Advocates' Society on written advocacy. Admitted to the Bar in Ontario in 1988. LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 57