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Litigation: General Commercial

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McCarthy Tétrault is Canada's premier corporate commercial litigation law firm, with more experience in domestic and cross-border dispute resolution, both in and out of the courtroom, than any other Canadian law firm. As the nation's pre-eminent litigation firm for over 150 years, we have top-ranked practitioners in every region across the country. Our litigators have earned their top-ranked reputations with successive victories in corporate commercial litigation, including many of the most significant cases in Canada.

Whether the dispute involves commercial agreements, contracts, transactions, relationships, compliance matters or allegations of negligence, McCarthy Tétrault litigators will ensure that they completely understand their clients’ goals and priorities. Once they are identified, we work closely with our clients to execute the most efficient strategy to assist them in reaching their goals.

We have a deep level of experience in the full range of legal strategies. We will consider all forms of resolution where appropriate. These might include efficient early negotiated settlement, the use of alternative dispute resolution techniques or the use of the persuasive power of the court process.

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What the Team is Known For

McCarthy Tétrault is a trusted brand in Canada with a respectable BC litigation practice. The firm demonstrates the capacity to handle complex commercial and corporate disputes, with notable clients in a diverse range of industries, including mining, financial services and energy. The team in Vancouver features experts in appellate, post-M&A and administrative litigation, as well as arbitration proceedings, and maintains a strong class action practice, often providing clients with inter-provincial support via its office network.

Work Highlights

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  • McCarthy Tétrault represented Meta Platforms in two matters, involving class actions alleging that Meta knowingly exposed young people to inherently harmful content and breaches of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Strengths

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McCarthy Tétrault have a deep bench of talent across the top partners and reaching into their more junior associates. They are a role model of immediate and substantive responsiveness.

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McCarthy Tétrault are thorough and evaluate reads of difficult situations with an eye towards multiple strategic angles. They are thoughtful and considerate and would advise against unnecessary work.

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They demonstrate a consistent, proven track record of bringing value through their expertise applying a well-reasoned, proactive, strategic and structured approach to complex and high-stakes cases.

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Advice is delivered very efficiently and is very thorough, clear and holistic in respect of assessing risks. The positions are also proactive versus reactive.

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Savvy business advice, industry knowledge, cost-awareness, responsiveness, and quality of legal advice and materials produced. McCarthy's support and guidance has been key to our company's success.

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Notable Practitioners

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Michael A. Feder KC
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Michael A. Feder KC
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Michael Feder KC is a highly respected litigator whose practice spans across a range of corporate and commercial disputes, encompassing fraud and misfeasance, breach of duty litigation and force majeure disputes. In addition, he holds experience in administrative and public law disputes, appellate proceedings and challenges to arbitral awards. He is based in McCarthy Tétrault's Vancouver office.

Mike is a really good counsel. He has great oral advocacy skills. A great worker and a smart guy.

Michael is a top-flight counsel. He is very responsive and commercial.

Michael is absolutely the intellectual, strategic, capable and visionary leader he is reputed to be. I have to imagine he is the top counsel anyone could have on their team in the country.

Mike is a great litigator and is highly regarded for appellate work.

Michael is easily one of the best, brightest, most well-rounded and complete lawyers we have worked with. He has a high degree of common sense and strategic thinking.

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Owais Ahmed
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Owais Ahmed
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Owais Ahmed of McCarthy Tétrault's Vancouver office is recognised for his regulatory and litigation practice in the field of securities. He regularly advocates for both corporate entities and individuals, representing clients from a range of sectors, including pharmaceuticals and natural resources.

Owais is a brilliant, mild-mannered, thoughtful guy. He is going to be a king, just you wait.

Owais Ahmed is a street brawler of a lawyer. He is a very good trial lawyer, very bright and oriented on client results.

Owais is an exceptionally good securities litigator.

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Alexandra Cocks
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Alexandra Cocks
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Alexandra Cocks of McCarthy Tétrault's Vancouver office has a growing litigation practice, representing notable clients in the mining, aerospace and technology sectors. Her disputes experience covers a range of commercial contexts, including privacy breaches, as well as M&A and joint venture litigation.

Alex is very smart and strategic.

Alex is a terrific lawyer and litigator.

Alex is a pleasure to work with and very responsive.

Alexandra is a very capable litigator and arbitrator. She works well with client executive team members.

Alex has always been extremely available to discuss any matters that come up. She can digest large amounts of complex information very quickly and provide solid recommendations on how to proceed.

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Jill Yates
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Jill Yates
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Jill Yates is practice lead of McCarthy Tétrault's Vancouver litigation group. She regularly represents financial institutions and industrial clients in complex class actions and commercial litigation. She has notable experience defending clients in fraud and money laundering related cases. She also represents clients in arbitration proceedings.

Jill is a brilliant class actions lawyer, but she is also a very good general commercial litigation advocate.

Jill is decisive and firm but courteous.

Jill is a fantastic lawyer and gets named on the most significant class action work in the province.

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Una Radoja
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Una Radoja
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Una Radoja is growing her general commercial litigation practice in Vancouver, which includes experience handling complex breach of duty claims for clients from the natural resources and financial services sectors. She acts for both corporate clients and individual directors and executives.

Una's ability to navigate through complex legal issues and provide clear, concise legal advice has been fundamental in helping us make informed decisions. We are grateful to work with her.

Una excels at providing sophisticated advice and mapping out a strategy in complex matters.

Una is an amazing lawyer to work with. Definitely a key to our company's success at this stage. An absolute pleasure to work with!

Una is experienced in dealing with large, complicated cases. In my view she has a skill level well beyond her years at the Bar. She is also a pleasure to work with, which is an additional asset.

Una's advice and client service has been exceptional - accurate, proactive, holistic in its assessment, timely, on budget, responsive in a clear and simple manner and personable.

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Litigation: Administrative & Public Law
Michael A. Feder KC
Michael A. Feder KC
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Litigation: General Commercial
Michael A. Feder KC
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Michael A. Feder KC
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Alexandra Cocks
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Alexandra Cocks
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Jill Yates
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Jill Yates
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Una Radoja
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Una Radoja
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Litigation: Securities
Owais Ahmed
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Owais Ahmed
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