Jonathan Bell

Clients benefit from Jon Bell's extensive litigation experience, especially when faced with complex commercial litigation.

Jon is one of Canada's leading litigators specializing in complex, high stakes disputes in virtually every area of corporate and commercial litigation, including international fraud, securities regulatory and enforcement matters, internal investigations, shareholder and partnership disputes, directors' and officers' liability, professional negligence, product liability, defamation, domestic and international arbitration, oppression proceedings and class proceedings, among others. Jon has been lead counsel in numerous trials, appeals, arbitrations and judicial review hearings, including several multi-month trials. Jon has extensive experience co-ordinating with colleagues in different jurisdictions in multi-jurisdictional litigation and enforcement proceedings.

Jon regularly advises on and leads investigations on behalf of boards and special committees on issues of accounting fraud, securities compliance, conflicts of interest and other sensitive matters. These investigations frequently involve domestic regulators and law enforcement from across Canada and in other jurisdictions.

Jon is a fierce advocate who takes pride in bringing a practical business-minded approach to commercial disputes while championing his clients' interests to the fullest extent permitted at law.