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Wendy Berman is a partner practicing commercial litigation with a focus on securities-
related regulatory investigations and proceedings and has extensive experience dealing
with Canadian regulatory and law enforcement agencies. Berman provides strategic advice
and representation to companies and their directors and offi cers in all aspects of matters
relating to allegations of corporate misconduct, including internal investigations and do-
mestic and cross-border parallel civil, regulatory and criminal investigations and proceed-
ings. Berman has represented public companies and directors and offi cers in some of
Canada's largest investigations and proceedings involving disclosure violations, insider
trading and other fraud-related allegations, corruption and anti-bribery, shareholders'
remedies, litigation aspects of proxy contests, take-over bids and other acquisitions, corpo-
rate governance and securities class actions. Berman received the Lexpert® Zenith Award in
2013 for leading women lawyers. Berman is also recognized as a leading lawyer by Cham-
bers Global and e Best Lawyers in Canada.
Chair of Torys' Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. Trial and appellate counsel
litigation practice, acting as counsel on a wide range of leading cases before all levels of
court in Canada and in international arbitrations. Chair, Touching Tiny Lives Founda-
tion; President, Fox Education Fund; Trustee, Foundation for International Arbitration
Advocacy, Geneva; President's Council, University of Ottawa; and Advisory Board, Eth-
ics and the Law, University of Toronto. Ranked by Lexpert® as one of Canada's top 25 cor-
porate litigators. Taught advocacy in North America and Europe, New Zealand, El Salva-
dor, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Brazil, India and Singapore. Awards include: Law Society
Medal; Advocates' Society Medal; Laidlaw Medal for Advocacy; Toronto Lawyers' Asso-
ciation Award of Distinction; OBA Award for Excellence; Meritas Tabaret Award, Uni-
versity of Ottawa; Fellow, ACTL, ISOB. Member, Common Law Honour Society, Uni-
versity of Ottawa. LLB (Gold Medalist), 1972, University of Ottawa. Ontario Bar, 1974.
Honorary LLD, 2014, University of Ottawa.
A senior partner of the litigation group in Toronto. Practices corporate, commercial and
securities litigation. Leading experience in securities litigation, including securities class-
action litigation. Leading experience defending multi-jurisdictional investigations and
civil proceedings. Has an extensive capital markets defense practice before the Ontario
Securities Commission, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, the
Mutual Fund Dealers Association and all other securities regulatory organizations in Can-
ada. Leading experience in director, offi cer and shareholder litigation with emphasis on
indemnifi cation and oppression disputes. Has a lengthy and wide range of experience act-
ing for investment dealers with respect to a variety of regulatory investigations and civil
disputes, including professional negligence defense litigation. Law clerk to Justice R.A.
Ritchie of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1981. Admitted to the New Brunswick Bar in
1981 and Ontario Bar in 1983.
Wendy
Berman
Cassels Brock &
Blackwell LLP
Tel: (416) 860-2926
Fax: (416) 640-3107
Toronto
Sheila R.
Block
Torys LLP
Tel: (416) 865-7319
Fax: (416) 865-7380
Toronto
Nigel
Campbell
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-2429
Fax: (416) 863-2653
Toronto
wberman@casselsbrock.com
sblock@torys.com
nigel.campbell@blakes.com
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