Laura F Cooper

Practice Areas

Laura Cooper is Leader of Fasken’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Class Actions practice group. She has extensive experience in class action litigation, with particular emphasis on securities, competition, consumer and privacy class actions.

Laura acts regularly for internationally known corporations in the defence of significant class actions. Many of her cases have cross-border and international implications and Laura works closely with counsel in the U.S. and other jurisdictions to ensure strategic co-ordination of cases across borders. Laura also regularly acts as national co-ordinating counsel in respect of Canadian multi-jurisdictional class actions.

Laura has particular expertise in securities class actions, defending corporations and others against allegations of misrepresentation in the market. She also has extensive experience in competition class actions, having represented clients in competition class actions with respect to electronic components (including SRAM, DRAM, LCD, CRT, ODD and LiB), foreign exchange products, a variety of auto parts and chemicals, among others. Laura also represents clients in respect of a variety of other class action areas including privacy, consumer remedies and employment.