Practice Areas » Commercial & Securities Litigation

Experience – Peter Roy and David O’Connor left one of Canada’s leading national full-service law firms to form REO, bringing with them decades of commercial litigation experience. As commercial plaintiff or defence counsel, REO helps safeguard businesses’ most critical assets: reputation, licence and money.

Practice Areas – REO represents individuals and world industry leaders at all levels of Court and administrative tribunals across Canada in the fields of:

• director and officer liability
• shareholder disputes
• oppression & derivative actions
• securities litigation
• competition litigation
• class action defence
• professional liability & professional discipline cases

Cross Border Litigation – REO works closely with international litigation counsel in a variety of cross-border or multi-jurisdictional disputes.

Conflicts – REO is ideally positioned to assist other lawyers and law firms in conflict situations and as counsel for a matter outside of their specific area of practice.

Past & Current Cases include:

• City of Waterloo on various complex claims by the City arising out of the financing for RIM Park in Waterloo
• Counsel to BHP Billiton with respect to pension and other litigation
• Counsel to Kinross Gold Corp. and TVX Gold Inc. with respect to significant litigation over the Kassandra Mines in Greece
• Counsel to Rio Algom Ltd. and its Board in the defence of an oppression claim advanced by holders of Rio Algom's convertible debentures, which involved potential damages of $80 million. We were successful in defending that claim at all levels, including a motion for leave to the Supreme Court of Canada
• Counsel to WMC Resources with respect to litigation arising out of a takeover bid for a public company
• Acting on behalf of financial institutions, brokers, directors and shareholders in numerous regulatory proceedings and lawsuits