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Ms Vera Toppings

Position
Partner
Career
Vera Toppings is an experienced litigator, who advises and represents clients in commercial and civil litigation matters, with a focus on class actions and complex business and contractual disputes. She provides practical solutions to Canadian and international clients across a variety of industries, including banking, financial services, pharmaceuticals, automotive, mining, aerospace, healthcare, telecommunications, consumer and industrial products, real property and professional services. Vera is Vice-Chair of the firm’s Ontario Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department.
Vera has particular experience with class action defence. She has represented clients in significant class proceedings addressing noteworthy and emerging issues in the field. Her experience includes multi-jurisdictional cases involving privacy and the protection of personal information; product liability; allegations of price-fixing and other competition issues; breaches of contract and consumer protection law; and securities misrepresentation.
She works regularly with U.S. law firms on the joint defence of multi-national clients’ litigation matters worldwide and is a member of the firm’s U.S. Committee. Vera has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario and British Columbia, at the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as before domestic and international arbitration panels.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Dispute resolution: Ontario
(Next Generation Partners)Fasken‘s Ontario disputes practice specializes in class action defence, product liability litigation and securities litigation, as it counts companies in the automotive, energy, financial services and tech sectors among its clients. Toronto-based department lead Sarah Armstrong has focused her practice on commercial litigation, arbitration and class action defence, as well as administrative law matters. Additional names to note include Peter Pliszka (product liability, class action, commercial and insurance litigation matters); Ottawa-based Peter Mantas, who co-leads the firm’s white collar defence and investigations group; and Ontario litigation vice chair Vera Toppings (class actions and complex business and contractual disputes).
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Indigenous law
- Labour and employment
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency
- International expertise
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Technology
- Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- AI
- Banking and finance
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International trade
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- Media and entertainment
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Real estate
- Tax
- Cannabis
- Construction
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas