Shane D'Souza
Canada Guide 2025
Band 2 : Litigation: Securities
Band 2
About
Provided by Shane D'Souza
Practice Areas
Shane is a leader of the firm's Critical Situations & Shareholder Activism group. His national practice focuses on complex securities litigation, proxy contests, shareholder disputes, public and private M&A litigation, corporate governance, regulatory and enforcement matters, and disputes involving wealth, capital markets and crypto businesses. He has significant experience in securities class actions, having taken one of the few such cases to trial.
Shane assists clients with their most complex and sensitive problems by conducting internal investigations into potential violations of securities law, anti-corruption and bribery legislation, fraud, regulatory breaches, and #metoo and BIPOC allegations.
Career
Ontario Bar, 2010.
Professional Memberships
The Advocates Society
Ontario Bar Association
South Asian Bar Association
Publications
https://www.lexology.com/1727/author/Shane_C_D_Souza/
Personal
Shane teaches Corporate Crime, Crisis & Culture at the University of Western Ontario and is an advisor of the University of Toronto’s Corporate Securities Competitive Program. He was an adjunct professor of Advanced Securities and a member of the teaching team for the Lawyer As Negotiator course at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Since 2022, Shane has been a director of the Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Association. He is a member of the firm’s National Pro Bono Committee and Student Committee.
Chambers Review
Canada
Shane D'Souza has developed a notable profile in Toronto's litigation space, with a practice focus on securities. His experience extends to OSC enforcement matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Shane is definitely a very knowledgeable securities litigator. He is very good at quickly analysing information and giving a high-level summary."
"Shane has extensive knowledge and expertise. He is strategic and practical in his advice, and goes above and beyond to share information with his clients on developing trends and emerging risks."
"Shane is a very strong, very smart, tireless advocate. He is very tough in court and in dealing with contested issues."
"Shane is an excellent lawyer with a commercially savvy approach to files."
"Shane is really smart from a strategic standpoint. He is very wise and brings lots of strategy to a file that is fantastic and also very practical."
"Shane is definitely a very knowledgeable securities litigator. He is very good at quickly analysing information and giving a high-level summary."
"Shane has extensive knowledge and expertise. He is strategic and practical in his advice, and goes above and beyond to share information with his clients on developing trends and emerging risks."
"Shane is a very strong, very smart, tireless advocate. He is very tough in court and in dealing with contested issues."
"Shane is an excellent lawyer with a commercially savvy approach to files."
"Shane is really smart from a strategic standpoint. He is very wise and brings lots of strategy to a file that is fantastic and also very practical."
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