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John Campion is recognized as a leading advocate, featured by Lexpert® as one of Canada's
top 25 barristers with over 300 reported and public decisions. Senior counsel in over 150
private law trials, arbitrations and class actions; 80 tribunal hearings; 60 appeals in ON,
BC, AB, QC, NB, NS, FCC, SCC; litigating: energy, securities, competition, insur-
ance, banking, constitutional, shareholder issues, construction, transportation, products
liability. Public law counsel – Inquiries: Gomery, United Nations Oil for Food, Walker-
ton; Energy; Legislation: Canada, Ontario, Manitoba; Boards – Energy, Competition,
Securities, Pensions, Auto. Partner, Fasken Martineau, past Chair Toronto and litiga-
tion. Adjunct professor (20 years): Osgoode and U of T; four-time elected Bencher of
LSUC (Emeritus Bencher); Director and President, Federation of Law Societies. Author,
lecturer, past President Empire Club of Canada; Commissioner, Elections Finance
Commission; Director, CBC & Chair Audit Committee. Featured in Chambers Global,
Lexpert®, e Best Lawyers in Canada, Euromoney, Who's Who Legal and Who's Who
Legal: Canada.
Gordon Capern is a senior partner and a leader of the corporate and commercial litigation
practice. Advises clients and acted as counsel in the resolution of disputes in many areas
of corporate and commercial activity, including issues arising from complex commercial
transactions, including M&A in a variety of industries, liability of professional advisors,
shareholder and partnership disputes, director, officer and employee litigation, with
expertise in their fiduciary obligations, and franchises and dealerships. He is recognized
as a leading corporate commercial litigation lawyer in e 2015 e Lexpert®/American
Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. He is also ranked in Chambers
Global for Dispute Resolution, where he is described as "a very prominent and effec-
tive litigator" and as a "local litigation star" in Ontario by Benchmark Canada. Capern
became a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers in 2015.
Practice focuses on corporate and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on matters
involving shareholders' disputes (including those involving family and other closely held
companies), insolvency, corporate restructuring, income tax, directors', officers' and
professional liability, and insurance coverage disputes. Has broad experience in estates
litigation, having acted for numerous trustees and beneficiaries as well as Ontario's Office
of e Children's Lawyer. Has appeared as lead counsel before the Ontario Trial Courts,
the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Tax Court of
Canada. Has written on bankruptcy issues in Canadian Bankruptcy Reports. Director-
ship, e Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Membership, e Advocates'
Society. Ontario Bar, 1993; LLB, 1991, Queen's University; BA (Honors), 1988, Univer-
sity of Toronto.
John A.
Campion
Fasken
Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Tel: (416) 865-4357
Fax: (416) 364-7813
Toronto
Gordon D.
Capern
Paliare Roland
Rosenberg
Rothstein LLP
Tel: (416) 646-4311
Fax: (416) 646-4301
Toronto
David
Chernos
Chernos Flaherty
Svonkin LLP
Tel: (416) 855-0402
Fax: (647) 725-5440
Toronto
jcampion@fasken.com
gordon.capern@paliareroland.com
dchernos@cfscounsel.com
CORPORATE COMMERCIAL
A senior partner of the litigation group in Toronto. Practices corporate, commercial and
securities litigation. Leading experience in all securities litigation, including securities
class-action litigation. Leading experience defending multi-jurisdictional investigations
and civil proceedings. Leading experience in director, officer and shareholder litigation
with emphasis on indemnification and oppression disputes. Leading capital markets
defense practice before the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the Investment
Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, the Mutual Fund Dealers Association
and all other securities regulatory organizations in Canada. Leading experience acting
for investment dealers with respect to a broad array of regulatory investigations and civil
disputes, including professional negligence defense litigation. Former OSC Senior Inves-
tigation Counsel. Member of the OSC Securities Proceedings Advisory Committee.
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.
Nigel
Campbell
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-2429
Toronto
nigel.campbell@blakes.com
