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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CORPORATE COMMERCIAL Jessica A. Kimmel Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-4219 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Toronto jkimmel@goodmans.ca Partner. Significant experience in corporate commercial and securities litigation, shareholder remedies, professional negligence and product liability. Has worked on significant restructuring matters and major securities, competition and product liability class actions and appeared at all levels of court in Ontario and in the SCC. Has also acted for significant participants in public and private takeover/oppression litigation and in matters before the Ontario and British Columbia Securities Commissions. In addition to The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory recognitions, also named a leading lawyer by the Lexpert ® Special Edition: Canada's Leading Litigation Lawyers, Chambers Global and PLC Which Lawyer? for dispute resolution and by The Best Lawyers in Canada for class action, corporate commercial and securities litigation. Ranked by Benchmark Canada as a "litigation star" for class actions, commercial litigation and securities. Founding chair of Goodmans' professional standards and conflicts committee. Past President of the Toronto Lawyers' Association. Markus Koehnen McMillan LLP Tel: (416) 865-7218 Fax: (647) 722-6721 Toronto markus.koehnen@mcmillan.ca Adrian C. Lang Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (416) 869-5653 Fax: (416) 861-0445 Toronto alang@stikeman.com John B. Laskin Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7317 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto jlaskin@torys.com Markus Koehnen has appeared before all levels of courts in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as before domestic and international arbitral tribunals. His practice concentrates on complex commercial litigation with particular focus on Shareholder Rights/Corporate Governance and International Law. Significant cases have included acting for a group of institutional bondholders in challenging the $52-billion leveraged buyout of BCE, defending a publicly traded mining company and its directors against allegations of oppression, director negligence and breach of contract and several ICC arbitrations. Koehnen is the author of Oppression and Related Remedies, a leading text on shareholder rights and directors' liabilities published by Carswell, a Thomson Reuters business. He teaches at the Institute of Corporate Directors and is a past Litigation Committee co-Chair of the International Bar Association. Adrian Lang is a partner with the Litigation Group in the Toronto office of Stikeman Elliott. Her practice concentrates on corporate commercial litigation, securities litigation and class-action litigation. She is also recognized by The Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory (for litigation ‒ class actions, securities litigation, corporate commercial litigation and directors' and officers' litigation), Benchmark Canada, and The Best Lawyers in Canada. She was named one of Lexpert®'s "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" in 2008. She sits on the Advisory Board of Class Action Defence Quarterly and is a past board member of The Advocates' Society. She has been an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School teaching class actions, and a guest lecturer at Osgoode's Intensive Trial Advocacy Course. She is the current chair of the Board of Canadian Stage. She has spoken at various conferences on numerous topics, including on securities litigation, commercial litigation and class-action litigation. Senior trial and appellate counsel. Broad business litigation practice with emphasis on administrative and constitutional law, competition law, intellectual property and class actions. Appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada, in courts across Canada, in domestic and international arbitrations, and before administrative tribunals. Recognized as a leading commercial and public law litigator in publications including The Lexpert ®/ American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Woodward White's Best Lawyers in Canada and Chambers & Partners' Chambers Global: World's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client's Guide. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers and Litigation Counsel of America. Speaks and writes regularly on public law, competition and civil litigation issues. Editor of civil cases for Canadian Charter of Rights Annotated. Before joining Torys, was associate professor at University of Toronto Faculty of Law. LLM, 1977, University of California. LLB (Gold Medalist), 1976, University of Toronto. Ontario Bar, 1979. Alberta Bar, 1987. LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 81