Mr Andrew Winton > Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP Offices
145 KING ST. WEST, SUITE 2750
TORONTO, ON M5H 1J8
Canada
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Mr Andrew Winton
Work Department
Corporate Commercial Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring
Position
Andrew Winton is a partner at Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP. He has been involved in a wide range of commercial disputes, with a focus on insolvency and restructuring, shareholder disputes and employment matters. His clients include private individuals, small businesses, and major corporations.
Andrew regularly acts in various capacities for parties to insolvency and restructuring matters, including as counsel to the court-appointed Monitor or Receiver, as counsel for the directors and officers of insolvent corporations, and as counsel for other interested parties. Recent notable insolvency mandates he has been involved with include Target Canada, Bloom Lake, Urbancorp, Sears Canada, Tobacco, and the Cresford/Clover on Yonge CCAA proceedings.
In addition, Andrew acts for both employers and employees in executive terminations, with a focus on the financial industry, and has significant experience in “departing employee” cases involving unfair competition and misuse of confidential information disputes. He is the co-author of the “Injunctions against Ex-Employees” module on Lexis Practice Advisor Canada. Andrew is also an author of the Canada Chapter of the Dispute Resolution Global Guide, one of the Lexology GTDT publications.
Andrew served on the Section Executive of the Ontario Bar Association’s Civil Litigation Section between 2013 and 2016 and on the Section Executive of the Ontario Bar Association’s Insolvency Section from 2016 to 2017.
Memberships
University of Toronto Faculty of Law, alumni mentor
Furniture Bank, pro bono services
Education
Called to the Ontario Bar, 2007
Clerkship: Chief Justice McMurtry and Justices Weiler, Blair and LaForme of the Court of Appeal for Ontario
J.D. (with Honours), University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, 2006
B.A. (First Class Honours), McGill University, 1995
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Dispute resolution: Ontario
(Next Generation Partners)Toronto-based boutique Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP is a leading player in the Ontario disputes space. The ‘outstanding team of lawyers’ is well-versed in representing both domestic and international clients in complex commercial mandates. Practice co-head Matthew Gottlieb
specializes in corporate and commercial disputes, and insolvency, fraud and securities litigation. Leading alongside him, Jonathan Lisus has focused his practice on infrastructure and P3 disputes, product liability claims and securities litigation. Additional key litigators include Crawford Smith, Andrew Winton and Shaun Laubman. Nadia Campion handles shareholder oppression applications and estates matters and is lauded as ‘completely fearless’ and an ‘outstanding litigator’. Paul Fruitman is noted for his work on construction, employment health disputes, while Rahool Agarwal majors on proxy fights, director and officer liability, and complex fraud cases.
Canada > Restructuring and insolvency
Acting for debtors, creditors, secured lenders, shareholders, regulators and bondholders, the team at boutique Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP supports commercial, real estate, telecoms, finance and energy clients involved in complex insolvency proceedings and restructurings. Practice head Matthew Gottlieb, lauded by one client as ‘always exceeding expectations’, is well-versed in corporate and commercial disputes, insolvency and restructuring, and fraud and securities litigation. Andrew Winton‘s broad litigation practice encompasses insolvency mandates and has additional focus on shareholder disputes.
Lawyer Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Ontario Canada
- Next Generation Partners Canada > Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Restructuring and insolvency Canada