David Di Paolo > Borden Ladner Gervais LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices

Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 4E3
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David Di Paolo

Work Department
Disputes
Position
National Group Head, Disputes
Career
David is National Group Head of BLG’s Commercial and Construction Disputes Group and is a commercial litigator specializing in commercial and securities litigation matters including defending registrants and market participants in securities class actions, civil claims, regulatory investigations and proceedings. David has acted before all levels of Court including the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as before provincial securities commissions and securities self regulatory organizations. David also acts in defence of investor loss claims, employment litigation involving market participants, shareholder disputes and oppression remedy claims, as well as general corporate and commercial litigation. David was called to the Ontario Bar in 1998.
Languages
English
Memberships
Member, Canadian Bar Association; Member, The Advocates’ Society.
Education
LLB, University of Western Ontario, 1996
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Dispute resolution: Ontario
(Leading partners)Borden Ladner Gervais LLP‘s Ontario disputes practice specializes in diverse contentious mandates that include class actions and white collar defence, commercial fraud investigations, competition litigation and banking and securities litigation. Companies from the retail, mining, financial services and automotive sectors routinely feature on the group’s client roster. Three partners share leadership: David Di Paolo and Nadia Effendi are based at the Toronto office, while Kathleen McDormand is based in Ottawa. Di Paolo specializes in securities litigation, class actions and shareholder disputes; Effendi majors on class actions, and administrative, regulatory and constitutional law; McDormand covers breach of contract cases, professional negligence matters and banking litigation matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Business immigration
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International trade
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Intellectual property