Sean’s practice embraces all aspects of corporate/commercial, civil and class actions litigation. He has considerable experience advising clients in large and complex commercial litigation matters.
Sean has diverse experience in matters involving shareholder disputes, directors liability, securities litigation, pension disputes, negligence and contractual disputes, financial institutions, investment advisors disputes, mining law, constitutional law, product liability, employment disputes, executive compensation, intellectual property disputes, municipal and administrative law.
Some of the recent and ongoing matters he is currently involved in include:
The defence of several former Directors of a TSX listed company in multijurisdictional proceedings
Counsel to shareholders in an oppression matter, which includes allegations of Securities Act violations
An action commenced under the Class Proceedings Act with respect to alleged misclassification of employees and related overtime entitlements
Counsel in the national class proceeding in respect of the constitutional challenge of survivor pension benefits, Hislop v. Canada, appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada and responsible for the administration of the proceeding and ongoing matters;
Litigation arising out of the RIM Park financing on behalf of the City of Waterloo
The pre-1986 and post-1990 Hepatitis C settlement for claimants in litigation against the Federal Government
The defence of various class proceedings arising out of the collapse of Bre-X Minerals;
The defence of various parties to enforcement and civil proceedings under the Ontario Securities Act
The defence of a national financial institution arising out of investment advisor issues
Litigation arising out of TVX’s acquisition of the Kassandra mines in Greece on behalf of TVX Gold and Kinross
Pension litigation on behalf of BHP Billiton
Various other cases involving contractual disputes, executive compensation and shareholder remedies
Various cases involving medical malpractice
Practice Areas
Commercial Litigation
Class Action Litigation
Admissions and Affiliations
Called to the Bar of Ontario 2002
Advocate's Society, Member
Member of the Young Advocates Standing Committee
Canadian Bar Association, Member
Ontario Bar Association, Member
Member-at-Large Ontario Bar Association Class Action Subcommittee
SOCAN, Member
Education
B.Sc. (Hons) Minor in biochemistry, University of Windsor, 1998
LL.B. - University of Windsor, 2001
Publications
Co-Author, "Getting Ready for Bill 198- Civil Liability For Secondary Market Disclosure", for The Canadian Institute’s 6th Annual Forum on Litigating Class Actions, September 26, 2005.
Also co-presented at a pre-conference workshop during this conference.
Co-Author "The Early Disqualification of the Counsel Witness – Practical Considerations v. the Right to Counsel of Choice" (2005) XI, No. 2, Commercial Litigation 562 at 562.
