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CLASS ACTION Mahmud Jamal Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6764 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto mjamal@osler.com Mahmud Jamal's national litigation practice includes the defence of class actions, banking litigation, constitutional and administrative law, competition/antitrust, pension, tax, copyright and other regulatory litigation. He has argued 24 appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada in many different fields and defended three class action merits trials. He has argued trials and appeals at all levels of court in Ontario, Québec, British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, at the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, and before federal and provincial administrative tribunals such as the Competition Tribunal, the Ontario Energy Board, and the Financial Services Tribunal. He is a former law clerk to the late Justice Charles D. Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada and to Justice Melvin L. Rothman of the Québec Court of Appeal. Jamal is bilingual and has litigated trials and appeals conducted in French. Called to the Ontario Bar, 1996. Peter R. Jervis Rochon Genova LLP Tel: (416) 363-1867 Fax: (416) 363-0263 Toronto pjervis@rochongenova.com Katherine L. Kay Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5507 Fax: (416) 947-0866 Toronto kkay@stikeman.com David W. Kent McMillan LLP Tel: (416) 865-7143 Fax: (416) 865-7048 Toronto david.kent@mcmillan.ca Peter Jervis is senior counsel at Rochon Genova LLP. His practice primarily involves securities, class action, complex commercial, financial, and constitutional and administrative law litigation. He has argued cases and advised clients nationally and has appeared before arbitration panels, administrative tribunals, and trial and appellate courts across the country including the Supreme Court of Canada. Jervis has also practiced before the securities commissions in a number of provinces and has worked with US counsel on certain litigation issues. He has acted on a number of class proceedings dealing with secondary market liability for nondisclosure of material information by public issuers. Jervis was educated at the University of Toronto, Cambridge University, and Queen's University and has a LL.M degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. Jervis lectures frequently in matters dealing with securities litigation and class action litigation. Partner practicing complex commercial litigation, regularly involving the overlap between regulatory, civil and criminal law regimes. Heads the firm's competition litigation practice and a member of its partnership board and executive committee. Described by Chambers Global as "virtually insurmountable in the area of competition litigation" and by Global Competition Review as "arguably the best competition litigator Canada has to offer." Major focus is class actions defence, including competition, product liability, franchise and consumer cases with an emphasis on strategic responses, directing multiple class actions across several jurisdictions and effective advocacy before relevant courts and tribunals. Multiple recognitions, including The Best Lawyers in Canada; The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers, Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada; and Chambers Global's The Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for Business, among others. David Kent is Co-Chair of the firm's Dispute Resolution Group and Co-Chair of its Class Action Practice, and a member of its Competition and IP groups. His practice emphasizes complex litigation, including competition, copyright, commercial and regulatory disputes. His extensive class action experience includes more than 40 national cases involving competition, consumer, privacy and securities claims in a wide range of industries, raising issues including cross-border discovery, settlement and certification. He has been counsel in many competition cases, including more than 25 cartel class actions (e.g., vitamins, rubber chemicals, cross-border vehicle sales, credit cards, e-books, Gmail and computer components such as DRAM, SRAM, LCDs and CRTs), as well as private actions, contested mergers and Competition Bureau investigations. Kent taught ADR at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto) and Queen's University Law School (Kingston) for nine years. Member, CBA, IPIC and ABA (section on antitrust). LLB (Hons.) and Dean's Key, University of Toronto. Ontario Bar (1983). LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 59