Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
Canada Guide 2025 : Ontario
Band 2
About
Provided by Babin Bessner Spry
Babin Bessner Spry is a boutique litigation firm that was founded in 2009 by Ed Babin, a senior partner for many years in the highly-rated litigation departments of two of Canada's pre-eminent law firms, Torys LLP and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. Cynthia Spry joined the partnership in 2010, and Ellen Bessner joined in 2014, to form Babin Bessner Spry LLP.
The firm is active in a wide range of practice areas, including securities litigation, corporate governance issues (including director and officer liability), shareholder oppression litigation and derivative actions, insolvency, intellectual property, conspiracy, fraud, product liability, professional liability and discipline, employment, competition, class actions, and advertising law. We also handle a variety of public interest and pro bono matters.
We have extensive experience litigating securities and commercial disputes at all levels of court, both in trial and on appeal, as well as before administrative tribunals and through alternative dispute resolution. We also handle a variety of public interest and pro bono matters, including refugee claims, wrongful death by law enforcement, sponsorship disputes of a publicly-funded arts company and more.
Chambers Review
Babin Bessner Spry is a litigation boutique in Toronto that is active in a broad variety of practice areas, including securities litigation, corporate governance issues, shareholder oppression litigation, insolvency, intellectual property, conspiracy, fraud, competition, class actions and more. It is also experienced in handling public interest and pro bono matters.
Strengths
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"Babin Bessner Spry are known as counsel who can handle complicated, sensitive matters and distil them into simple parts."
"Babin Bessner Spry are known as counsel who can handle complicated, sensitive matters and distil them into simple parts."
Notable Practitioners
Toronto-based Cynthia Spry has a broad commercial litigation practice, representing clients in class actions, shareholder disputes, competition law and contractual and securities litigation.
"Cynthia Spry is really excellent. She is on plaintiffs' and defence work. She also does both regulatory and civil litigation."
"Cynthia is a very good litigator."
"Cynthia is terrific."
Ranked Lawyers at
Babin Bessner Spry
Ontario
Members
Provided by Babin Bessner Spry
Aaron Gold
Brendan Monahan
Britt Shales
Brittiny Rabinovitch
Daniel Babin
Edward Babin
Ellen Bessner
Gush Minhas
Kyra Balogh
Michael Bookman
Zachary Pringle