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Securities Litigation

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Nobody has better litigators than McCarthy Tétrault. Just ask our clients.   

McCarthy Tétrault is steeped in securities law. Our clients consistently recommend us as leading counsel in actions involving banking disputes, commercial contracts, shareholder disputes, class action suits and fiduciary obligations.

We have litigated most of the significant securities law cases in Canada. Many involved far-reaching takeover bids and shareholders’ rights issues. We’ve acted in leading disciplinary cases involving broker and dealer negligence or misconduct. We've mounted successful defences of mutual fund representatives and dealers, stockbrokers and investment advisors against claims initiated by dissatisfied investors. We have also conducted defences that shaped laws and decisions relating to directors' and officers' liability and directors' duties.

We put Canada's largest litigation team at your disposal to resolve complex regulatory proceedings while simultaneously defending parallel corporate transactions that involve court applications, provincial security commission hearings, strategic negotiations, class action suits and critical business and legal analysis. We team with our corporate securities, corporate finance, class action and mergers & acquisitions specialists to avoid or expeditiously resolve cases before the need for litigation.

We are seasoned in dealing with multijurisdictional securities-related proceedings before courts and securities regulators across Canada and the US. We pioneered the creation of interdisciplinary and cross-country teams to deal with provincial security commission hearings that involve public disclosure and other regulatory compliance and enforcement issues.

At the same time, we raise the bar at regional proceedings. Our integrated securities enforcement and contested takeover approach, for instance, is a model for Bay Street. Our defence of the successful bidder in a hostile bid for a major domestic manufacturer set the ground rules for contested takeover bid litigation in Ontario.

Turn to McCarthy Tétrault to advise and/or defend you in:

• oppressive or unfairly prejudicial actions such as securities fraud or misrepresentation;
• shareholder disputes;
• securities class actions;
• securities enforcement-related matters such as regulatory investigations, securities law compliance or insider trading allegations;
• corporate disputes such as contested takeover bids and contentious share transfers;
• disclosure, corporate governance, directors' and officers' insurance or liability or other internal investigations; and
• valuation of shares or of companies.

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