Kent E Thomson

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Kent is the Head of Litigation at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP in Toronto, which has received numerous awards and recognitions during his tenure at the firm, including Chambers Canada’s Litigation Firm of the Year. He specializes in complex, high-stakes litigation and has appeared as lead counsel in trial and appellate courts throughout Canada. Kent has acted in a number of leading cases in a wide range of areas, including commercial disputes, securities cases, competition law and class actions. He has argued successfully a number of appeals in the Supreme Court of Canada, including in cases involving the law of oppression, libel law, tax law, plans of arrangement, intellectual property, the intersection of copyright and broadcasting law and the law of contested elections. Kent has conducted dozens of trials as well as numerous contested hearings before administrative tribunals such as the Ontario Securities Commission. He has also conducted a number of complex domestic and international arbitrations in Canada, the United States, Europe and Africa. Kent has been recognized repeatedly as one of Canada’s leading litigation counsel, including in The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Benchmark Canada (as a recipient of its Hall of Fame Award), The Legal 500 Canada (in its Hall of Fame category), Who’s Who Legal and The Best Lawyers in Canada. He has been listed for more than a decade in Canadian Who’s Who. Kent has recently been named by Euromoney’s Expert Guides: Best of the Best as one of the top 30 litigation counsel in the world, and been recognized repeatedly by Benchmark Litigation as one of the top 50 trial lawyers in Canada. He has received consistently Martindale-Hubbell’s highest ranking for legal ability and integrity. Kent is one of only a handful of litigators in Canada to be admitted as a Fellow of all of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Society of Barristers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation.