Clarke Tedesco
Canada Guide 2025
Up and Coming : Litigation: Securities
Up and Coming
About
Provided by Clarke Tedesco
Practice Areas
Clarke's practice focuses on civil litigation and enforcement proceedings before securities regulators in Canada. Clarke has appeared as counsel before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Courts of British Columbia and Nova Scotia, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) (formerly, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) and the Mutual Fund Dealers Association (MFDA)).
Clarke has worked on a wide variety of commercial and securities litigation matters, including applications under the Business Corporations Act and the Securities Act, professional negligence, fraud actions, and fiduciary litigation, including complex commercial litigation matters. He regularly acts for directors and officers of private and public corporations, and acts for both private and public companies with respect to receivership and valuation applications at the Commercial List. Clarke also has experience in matters involving securities class actions, proxy battles and shareholder disputes, employment matters and defamation.
Chambers Review
Canada
Clarke Tedesco advises clients on a broad range of civil and regulatory securities litigation, including professional negligence, fraud actions and fiduciary litigation. He regularly acts for directors and officers of both private and public sector corporations. He is based in Crawley MacKewn Brush's Toronto office.
Strengths
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"Clarke is always responsive, proactive and extremely objective. He shows sophistication by distilling issues down to simple terms that the non-legal layman can easily understand."
"Clarke understands our business, is client-driven and is a pleasure to work with."
"Clarke is a very talented lawyer, probably their leading junior partner. He has tremendous experience for his age."
"Clarke is very practical and business-minded. He is very collaborative and has a calm, measured demeanour. He is very substantively strong and a really lovely human."
"Clarke is very practical and understands our business."
"Clarke is always responsive, proactive and extremely objective. He shows sophistication by distilling issues down to simple terms that the non-legal layman can easily understand."
"Clarke understands our business, is client-driven and is a pleasure to work with."
"Clarke is a very talented lawyer, probably their leading junior partner. He has tremendous experience for his age."
"Clarke is very practical and business-minded. He is very collaborative and has a calm, measured demeanour. He is very substantively strong and a really lovely human."
"Clarke is very practical and understands our business."