The Ontario disputes group at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP works with its offices across the country to provide clients with nationwide strength in class actions defence, competition litigation and financial institution litigation. Leadership of the group is split between five partners: Patricia Morrison KC in Calgary, Kathleen McDormand in Ottawa, and David Di Paolo, Nadia Effendi and Brendan Wong in Toronto. Di Paolo has a high level of experience in securities litigation, class actions and shareholder disputes, Effendi regularly appears before all levels of federal and provincial courts, and Wong has a particular interest in fraud law.
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National Managing Partner and CEO of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.
Career
He is a leading Commercial Litigation lawyer who also specializes in securities litigation, class actions and shareholder disputes. David represents registrants and public companies and their respective officers, directors and shareholders in class action proceedings and all manner of securities and regulatory investigations and prosecutions.
David's areas of focus include:
- Class actions, including securities class actions, unpaid wages class actions and investor loss class actions
- Securities litigation and regulation, including broker liability and departing broker litigation, as well as investigations and proceedings before Provincial Securities Commissions, IIROC and the MFDA
- Shareholder disputes litigation, including oppression remedy proceedings
- Directors’ and officers’ liability, including shareholders’ actions, creditors’ actions and offences under the Securities Act and other regulatory statutes
- General commercial and employment litigation
David has appeared before all levels of court, including the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as provincial securities commissions, IIROC and the MFDA.
Languages
English
Memberships
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, The Advocates' Society
Education
- LLB, University of Western Ontario, 1996
- BSc, (Hons., summa cum laude ) in Biology and Psychology, McMaster University, 1993
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Key clients
- Cormark Securities Inc. Amazon Samsung AIC Ltd. Canadian National Railway Company Joey Drew Studios and Karman Interactive Ltd. BMO Investments and BMO Investorline Inc. Mackenzie Financial Corporation Peoples Trust Company M3 Group and the Mortgage Alliance Company of Canada Hamilton Health Sciences HNR Properties Ltd. B.C. Civil Liberties Association