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 Glenn Smith Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Tel: (416) 865-2927 Fax: (416) 865-2853 Toronto gsmith@litigate.com Founding partner. Glenn Smith has a diverse commercial litigation practice with an emphasis on class actions and complex insurance litigation. He has been retained on some of the most significant insurance law cases in Canada. He has a special interest in product liability and cases involving insurance coverage of corporate directors and officers as well as the legal dimensions of technology. Smith was on the Ontario Task Force for implementing the Ontario e-Discovery Guidelines. He frequently lectures to professional organizations on e-discovery, technology and the law. He has taught trial advocacy for many years and is a certified mediator. Robert W. Staley Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (416) 777-4857 Fax: (416) 863-1716 Toronto staleyr@bennettjones.com Rob Staley's practice focuses on complex commercial, securities and class-action litigation and securities enforcement. He has a broad trial and appellate practice in all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and before provincial securities commissions. Staley has extensive experience advising boards and board committees in connection with contentious transactions, proxy contests, in litigation and in connection with regulatory investigations. Peer-review publications have recognized Staley for "his skilled handling of complex cases," as "absolutely first rate at examining and cross-examining witnesses," for his "excellent courtroom presence," his ability to provide "practical and concise advice," as "a masterful strategic thinker" and as "an extremely able, tactical lawyer who always knows cases inside-out." Staley served as Chair of the firm's Securities Litigation Practice Group, as Co-chair of the Litigation Department, on the firm's Partnership Board and on the board of The Advocates' Society. Richard B. Swan Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (416) 777-7479 Fax: (416) 863-1716 Toronto swanr@bennettjones.com Partner in litigation and dispute resolution, with a focus on corporate, commercial and public law issues. Co-Chair of the firm's Commercial Litigation practice group. Has comprehensive and extensive trial and appellate experience, having appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, the Federal Court of Canada, Supreme Court of Canada and an array of administrative and arbitral tribunals. Practice specialties include corporate disputes, shareholder oppression issues, commercial disputes, restructurings, injunctions, arbitrations, professional negligence, economic torts, professional discipline, estates litigation, health law and administrative and constitutional law. Recognized in The 2013 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. Was one of Lexpert®'s original "Top 40 Lawyers Under 40" in Canada in its inaugural 2002 list, and is regularly recognized as a leading corporate and commercial litigator in peerranked publications. LLB and BCL, with Honors, McGill University. Kent E. Thomson Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5566 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto kentthomson@dwpv.com 86 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Head of the Litigation Department of Davies in Toronto, with extensive experience in complex, "high stakes" litigation at the trial and appellate levels. Has acted as counsel in a number of leading cases in Canada in a wide range of areas, including commercial disputes, securities cases, competition law and class actions. Has recently argued successfully a number of appeals in the Supreme Court of Canada involving the law of oppression, plans of arrangement, the intersection of copyright and broadcasting law and the law of contested elections. Has also conducted complex domestic and international arbitrations in Canada, the US, Europe and Africa. Recognized repeatedly as one of Canada's leading litigation counsel, including in The Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. Named Canada's leading competition litigator in 2013 by Benchmark. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and recipient of Martindale-Hubbell's highest ranking for legal ability and integrity.