Litigation: General Commercial
Canada Guide 2025 : Ontario
Band 3
Contact number
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Provided by Norton Rose Fulbright
Our litigators have extensive trial and appellate experience and regularly appear before all levels of the Canadian Courts, and before arbitrators and administrative tribunals. The complexity of our team, our seamless integration across offices and our impressive experience means we can respond swiftly and efficiently to disputes right from the early stages to resolution.
We handle commercial litigation of all sizes and we know that any matter can be a “bet-the-farm,” kind of litigation, depending on the scope of the client. Whether the case is a contract dispute, a class action, a regulatory issue or is industry-specific, we are always mindful of our clients’ need for efficiency and budget predictability.
A client-centred approach to litigation requires our lawyers to be creative, flexible and practical. While most litigation never proceeds to trial – our experienced trial teams have obtained numerous successful verdicts for our clients.
Chambers Review
Norton Rose Fulbright maintains a well-established Ontario litigation practice, offering services out of Toronto and Ottawa. The team regularly advises on securities litigation, shareholder disputes, breach of contract claims and consumer protection cases. It is also noted for its handling of product and professional liability, insolvency and competition litigation. The firm has an impressive reputation in the field of securities, working on proxy contests, insider trading and misrepresentation, with a strong track record in class actions. The team is highly regarded for its in-depth knowledge of various industry sectors, including energy, financial services, life sciences and construction.
Work Highlights
- Norton Rose Fulbright represented PNC in a dispute over an alleged contractual right of first refusal over hundreds of refrigerated commercial trailers in Ontario.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They conduct excellent background research to support a strong strategic understanding of the issues and provide the most pragmatic approach to obtain the best resolution for us."
"Norton Rose Fulbright have extensive litigation experience, excellent communication skills and integrity. They're extremely smart and commercially minded lawyers."
"The team responds to enquiries quickly and accurately. They are easily accessible through either email or telephone and available outside normal business hours for urgent matters."
"Norton Rose Fulbright is an exceptionally client-focused firm, like none I have ever experienced. They have got client service figured out and it is a differentiator."
"The lawyers are very smart, big thinkers and always a step ahead of the opposition. They have a full grasp of the entire legal picture and you can trust them to lead you down the right path."
"They conduct excellent background research to support a strong strategic understanding of the issues and provide the most pragmatic approach to obtain the best resolution for us."
"Norton Rose Fulbright have extensive litigation experience, excellent communication skills and integrity. They're extremely smart and commercially minded lawyers."
"The team responds to enquiries quickly and accurately. They are easily accessible through either email or telephone and available outside normal business hours for urgent matters."
"Norton Rose Fulbright is an exceptionally client-focused firm, like none I have ever experienced. They have got client service figured out and it is a differentiator."
"The lawyers are very smart, big thinkers and always a step ahead of the opposition. They have a full grasp of the entire legal picture and you can trust them to lead you down the right path."
Notable Practitioners
Based in Norton Rose Fulbright's Toronto office, Orestes Pasparakis has deep commercial litigation experience, including acting in insolvency-related disputes and those concerning negligent misrepresentation and breach of contract.
"Orestes is a star. Brilliant, commercially minded and straightforward."
"He has a great business mind."
"Orestes is extremely creative with his advocacy. He has helped us to reach successful results in numerous 'bet the farm' disputes, and while these are never welcome, Orestes's advice always is."
"Orestes is very good and practical."
Jeremy Devereux handles a wide range of securities class actions and regulatory disputes, including investigations. Operating out of Norton Rose Fulbright's Toronto office, he serves clients that include major financial institutions and fund managers.
"Jeremy Devereux is an outstanding lawyer. Jeremy is very practical and solution-oriented and we are very glad to be his client. His advice is invaluable to our business."
"Jeremy excels at managing sensitive situations that have a great deal of reputational risk, combining securities and employment expertise, proving he can handle those matters and find solutions."
"Jeremy is excellent. He is unique in that he has a very good understanding of securities litigation, but also has class action experience and fairly extensive employment expertise as well."
Fahad Siddiqui has a wide-ranging corporate litigation practice, which features strength across a broad spectrum of securities and shareholder actions, breach of contract claims and wider regulatory and administrative disputes.
"He's a very strategic litigator who analyses all potential avenues and options."
"Fahad is an up-and-coming litigation star. He's very smart and strategic."
"He's a hard worker and strategist and a great litigator."
"Fahad has provided excellent leadership in managing challenging litigation files."
"He's an absolute genius. If someone is one step ahead, he is a hundred steps ahead. By far the most smartest, talented individual I have worked with, and I have worked with many from other countries."
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