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Litigation partner. Broad commercial litigation practice, including class-action defense,
securities and competition litigation. Appeared before all levels of court in various Cana-
dian provinces, the Federal Court and Supreme Court of Canada and various tribunals,
including Competition Tribunal, Ontario Securities Commission and Patented Medi-
cines Prices Review Board. Defense counsel in various class actions (including Vitamins,
Air Cargo, LCD Panels, Chocolate, Optical Disk Drives); counsel in various competition
proceedings (including United Grain Growers' acquisition of Agricore Cooperative, the
criminal prosecution relating to the chocolate confectionary industry, and Commission-
er's application against Toronto Real Estate Board). Fellow, American College of Trial
Lawyers. Past President, e Advocates' Society. Member, Editorial Board, Ontario Re-
ports. Adjunct Faculty, University of Toronto Law School in Advanced Advocacy. LLB,
Osgoode Hall Law School. Law clerk to Justice Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Admitted to Ontario Bar (1992).
Practice focuses on corporate/commercial, product liability, class-action defense, in-
tellectual property, information technolog y, privacy and media law. Has appeared be-
fore all levels of court in Ontario and in the Federal Court of Canada, and he has exten-
sive trial experience, both in court and as counsel in domestic and international arbitra-
tions in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Has also acted as an arbitrator,
including regularly as a panelist in domain name disputes under the auspices of the Ca-
nadian Internet Registration Authority Dispute Resolution Rules. Ontario Bar, 1993.
LLB, 1991, Queen's University. JD, 1988, University of Toronto. Writes and speaks
frequently on a wide range of legal issues and teaches advocacy at several law schools and
in the Osgoode Hall Law School LLM Program on Protection of Intangible Business
Interests and Defamation.
Partner. Linda Fuerst's practice covers a broad range of commercial and professional li-
ability matters, with a focus on securities litigation, class proceedings and regulatory issues.
She has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia,
and in connection with proceedings of the Ontario, Alberta and Nova Scotia Securities
Commissions, as well as Market Regulation Services (now IIROC), the Mutual Fund
Dealers Association and the Competition Bureau. Fuerst also represents corporations and
individuals with respect to internal investigations. She has earned a Distinguished Peer
Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and a Gold Key Award from the Osgoode Hall Law
School Alumni Association. Fuerst has also been recognized for her work in securities liti-
gation by Best Lawyers and Lexpert®. Most recently, Fuerst was appointed by the Ontario
Securities Commission to the Securities Proceedings Advisory Committee, and is on the
Ontario Bar Association Executive for Civil Litigation and Class Proceedings.
Mark A. Gelowitz is a partner in the litigation department of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
LLP. He is Chair of the fi rm's National Corporate Governance and Securities Litigation
Group and Co-chair of the fi rm's International Commercial Arbitration Group. Gelowitz
has a business-focused civil litigation, appellate litigation and international commercial
arbitration practice. His cases have covered a wide variety of issues in corporate and com-
mercial law, including mergers & acquisitions litigation, directors' & offi cers' liability, op-
pression remedy, libel and slander, product liability, mining litigation and class-actions
procedure. He completed the BCL degree at Oxford University in 1989 between clerking
for the Chief Justice of Saskatchewan and the late Justice Sopinka of the Supreme
Court of Canada. Gelowitz has had a number of legal publications, including a book co-
authored with the late Justice Sopinka entitled e Conduct of an Appeal, ird Edition
(LexisNexis 2012). Gelowitz maintains a blog on Canadian appellate law and practice at
Conductofanappeal.com.
Sandra A.
Forbes
Davies Ward
Phillips &
Vineberg LLP
Tel: (416) 863-5574
Fax: (416) 863-0871
Toronto
Patrick D.
Flaherty
Chernos
Flaherty
Svonkin LLP
Tel: (416) 855-0403
Fax: (647) 725-5440
Toronto
Linda L.
Fuerst
Lenczner Slaght
Royce Smith
Griffi n LLP
Tel: (416) 865-3091
Fax: (416) 865-2869
Toronto
Mark A.
Gelowitz
Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt LLP
Tel: (416) 862-4743
Fax: (416) 862-6666
Toronto
sforbes@dwpv.com
pfl aherty@cfscounsel.com
lfuerst@litigate.com
mgelowitz@osler.com
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