Litigating in trial and appellate courts in Ontario, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP continues to be a leading firm for dispute resolution. Jointly leading the team, Catherine Beagan Flood’s broad expertise covers class actions on privacy, product liability and consumer protection issues; Iris Fischer has notable expertise in media and defamation cases. The group benefits from Michael Barrack, who has experience assisting corporations, governments and regulators with disputes. Other key members of the team include Jeff Galway (financial services disputes), Gordon McKee (product liability and class actions) and Bradley Berg (commercial and administrative disputes). Junior Sirivar joined the team in January 2025 from McCarthy Tétrault, and Pooja Mihailovich joined from Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Daniel Szirmak was promoted to partner. All lawyers mentioned work in Toronto.
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Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment; Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Pension, Benefits & Executive Compensation
Position

Jeff is a senior trial and appellate counsel whose practice focuses on corporate/commercial, securities, competition and pension law matters. A significant aspect of Jeff's practice involves class action defence. He also regularly acts as counsel in constitutional and administrative/regulatory proceedings. Jeff has appeared as counsel before courts in five Canadian provinces as well as before the Tax Court of Canada, Federal Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada and various administrative tribunals, including the Competition Tribunal, the Financial Services Tribunal, the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Ontario Securities Commission (now the Capital Markets Tribunal).

Career

For more than 15 years, he was an instructor at a program jointly sponsored by Osgoode Professional Development and The Advocates' Society on written advocacy. Jeff is an honorary overseas member of the Commercial Bar Association of the U.K. Jeff was a member of the Canadian Bar Association and Auditing and Assurance Standards Board's Task Force which updated the Joint Policy Statement on audit inquiries.

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Key clients

  • ABB Inc. ABC Technologies Ausenco Engineering Canada Belinda Stronach Business Council of Canada Canadian Pacific Railway Janssen Inc. Lyft Inc. Royal Bank of Canada Toronto Transit Commission

Work highlights

Advising Belinda Stronach in a multi-action litigation among family members related to the family corporate entities and trusts in which the family wealth resides.
Advising pharmaceutical companies in the ongoing Canadian opioid litigation, involving a number of class actions across the country to recover billions of dollars.