Dana M Peebles

Practice Areas

Past Chair of the firm’s National Class Actions Team and senior partner in the litigation group in Toronto. Civil litigation practice focused on class actions (particularly securities, data breach, pensions) and corporate-commercial litigation. Acted for leading Canadian and international companies in complex and challenging matters in the trial and appellate Courts in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Quebec, in the Federal Court, and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Was co-counsel for Defendants in the first two statutory secondary market securities class action leave motions in Canada.

Career

Ontario Bar, 1990

Professional Memberships

Director, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History; former Director, Advocates’ Society.

Publications

Securities Litigation Comes of Age at the Supreme Court of Canada (2017) 77 S.C.L.R. (2d) 1 (with Brandon Kain and Paul Davis) (Reproduced by permission of LexisNexis Canada Inc.), cited with approval by the Quebec Court of Appeal in Amaya Inc. v. Derome et al., January 29, 2018 (Que.C.A.)

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