Peter Roy is the firm’s senior litigation counsel and is a founding partner in Roy Elliott O’Connor LLP. Peter is very experienced in all aspects of civil litigation involving both individual and class proceedings. He has particular expertise in complex corporate commercial and securities litigation, Director and Officer duties and responsibilities, and mining related litigation.
Peter had been a senior partner, litigation co-chair and executive committee member of one of Canada’s largest firms. Peter decided to join in the formation of our boutique litigation practice in order to be free of the myriad of conflicts that routinely arise in a large full service firm.
Peter has been counsel on many noteworthy reported cases. His more recent and on-going publicly disclosed cases include his work as senior counsel for:
- Pre-1986 and past-1990 Hepatitis C plaintiff class that resulted in a $1,000,000,000 settlement in favour of those claimants;
- BMO Nesbitt Burns with respect to the Defence of various national and international multi-billion dollar individual and class proceedings arising out of the collapse of Bre-X Minerals;
- Contract and pension litigation on behalf of BHP;
- Oppression remedy claims by the shareholders and former board members of Coalcorp Mining Inc.;
- An action commenced under the Class Proceedings Act against Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP with respect to allegedly negligent tax advice;
- Hislop same sex survivor pension benefits class action against the Federal Government;
- An action commenced under the Class Proceedings Act with respect to unpaid overtime against the Bank of Nova Scotia;
- An action commenced under the Class Proceedings Act with respect to alleged misclassification of employees and related overtime entitlements;
- Kinross Gold Corporation with respect to contractual and fiduciary claims arising out of the acquisition and disposition of Greek mining assets.
Peter is a frequent contributor to professional development conferences. He has written and presented papers on complex and international litigation, electronic discovery and arbitration in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Peter is a frequent speaker on class action proceedings and trial practice.
Admissions and Affiliations
- Called to the Bar of Ontario 1976
- Certified as a Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1989 when the certification program was introduced
- Advocates Society
- American Bar Association
Education
- B.A. – University of Western Ontario 1971
- LL.B. - University of Windsor 1974
