Kathryn Manning

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Kathryn is a founding partner in DMG Advoates LLP, a commercial litigation boutique based in Toronto, ON.

Kathryn's commerical litigation and arbitration practice focuses on complex commercial matters, including shareholder and partnership disputes, professional liability, officer and director liability, product liability, civil fraud proceedings and class actions. She regularly acts in cross-border matters, including assisting foreign clients with enforcement of judgments in Canada.

Kathryn represents individuals and organizations both in the Canadian courts and in commercial arbitration proceedings. Her clients are a mix of public companies, closely held corporations, and individual businesspeople. Kathryn’s clients rely on her for practical, strategic advice at every stage of a dispute, all with a view to maximizing their business goals and achieving cost efficiencies. Kathryn leverages technology at all stages of a matter. She has deep expertise in electronic evidence and discovery.

In addition to her trial and arbitration experience, Kathryn has expertise in complex motion and appellate advocacy. Her experience also includes obtaining, executing, and enforcing Anton Piller and Mareva injunctions to preserve assets at the outset of litigation in civil fraud matters.

Kathryn acts as an arbitrator of commercial disputes. She holds a Q. Arb designation from the ADR Institute of Canada (ADRIC) and a certificate from ADRIC in its Med-Arb Foundational Course.

Professional Memberships

Ontario Bar Association (Immediate Past President)

Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society

ADR Institute of Canada/Ontario

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Arbitral Women

The Advocates Society

Toronto Lawyers' Association

Publications

The Oppression Remedy’s Broad Reach – Personal Liability of Officers and Directors and Creditors as Claimants

The Annual Review of Civil Litigation – 2022, Thomson Reuters Canada

Editor - The Sedona Canada Principles, Third Edition, The Sedona Conference, Working Group 7, Sedona Canada, January 2022

Co-Editor - Enforcement of Money Judgments – Canada Chapter (Common Law Jurisdictions), Juris Publishing Inc., 2019-2025

Co-Author - Civil Procedure and Practice in Ontario, Rule 60.01-60.10 Chapter, Noel Semple (ed.), Canadian Legal Information Institute, September 2021 (2021 CanLIIDocs 1981)

Co-Author - International Liability of Corporate Directors – Canada Chapter, Center for International Legal Studies, November 2021

Clients

Kathryn's clients include financial services corporations, both domestic and multi-national, manufacturers in a variety of sectors, including automotive and industrial parts, shareholders in high net worth closely held corporations, corporate officers and directors, communications firms, and international businesses operating in Canada.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Ontario, Canada

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