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Counsel. One of Canada's most respected advocates, the Honorable Ian Binnie served
for nearly 14 years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Binnie authored more
than 170 opinions, including on landmark cases involving issues of patent interpretation
and validity, protection of trade-marks, media law, commercial disputes, punitive damages,
expert evidence and many aspects of constitutional, criminal and administrative law. Over
the course of three decades as a litigator, he argued cases in most of the common-law prov-
inces and appeared regularly before the Supreme Court on a range of constitutional, civil
and criminal matters.
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, takeover 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.
Senior litigation partner and chair of BLG's National Public Law Group. Practice in-
volves a broad range of civil litigation, including commercial disputes, directors' and offi -
cers' duties and liability, shareholder, oppression and other corporate disputes, securities,
class actions, constitutional and administrative law issues. Has appeared as counsel before
all levels of the courts in Ontario, and before the Federal Court of Appeal, British Colum-
bia Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Canada, and numerous administrative tribunals,
including the Ontario Securities Commission. Served as law clerk to the Honorable Jus-
tice W.R. McIntyre, Supreme Court of Canada, 1979–1980; Elected Bencher, e Law
Society of Upper Canada, since 2008. Board of Trustees, Law Commission of Ontario.
Included in Best Lawyers® in Canada (Administrative and Public Law, Corporate and
Commercial Litigation); Chambers Global: e World's Leading Lawyers for Business (Dis-
pute Resolution: Ontario) and e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500
Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Commercial Litigation).
Ian Binnie,
CC, QC
Lenczner Slaght
Royce Smith
Griffi n LLP
Tel: (416) 865-3737
Fax: (416) 865-9500
Toronto
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
Christopher
D. Bredt
Borden Ladner
Gervais LLP
Tel: (416) 367-6165
Fax: (416) 361-7063
Toronto
ibinnie@litigate.com
wberman@casselsbrock.com
sblock@torys.com
cbredt@blg.com
