Peter Kolla

Peter Kolla is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group at Goodmans. His practice focuses on assisting clients with a wide variety of litigation and arbitration proceedings involving complex commercial and financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions disputes, and securities matters. He has successfully tried to verdict a ten-figure damages award for his client, and has successfully defended cases in which his client was facing ten figure damage exposure. An experienced trial and appellate lawyer, Peter has appeared in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Alberta Court of King’s Bench, the Quebec Superior Court (Commercial Division), the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the Federal Court, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, and has represented clients in Ontario Securities Commission investigations and proceedings before Law Society of Ontario discipline panels.

He regularly appears before the Toronto Commercial List of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in high profile commercial matters involving shareholder activism and corporate governance, director and officer liability claims, civil fraud, proceedings to enforce foreign judgments, insolvency proceedings, plans of arrangement and fiduciary obligations disputes. Peter has been counsel in numerous cases that have been recognized as top cases of the year.

Peter is recognized as a “Leading Partner” by The Legal 500 Canada in Dispute Resolution: Ontario and as a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation Canada. He is also featured in the Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation and in Best Lawyers in Canada for Corporate and Commercial Litigation.

Peter acts as a mentor to junior litigation lawyers as well as summer and articling students at Goodmans. He regularly teaches on a variety of topics, has guest lectured at the University of Toronto and the McGill University Faculty of Law, and has been an adjunct professor teaching Business Organizations at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law to its Global Professional Masters students. He has also written numerous articles for legal publications.

Peter is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, The Advocates’ Society, Canadian Bar Association and Ontario Bar Association.

Prior to practice, Peter was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada to Justice Louise Charron (now retired).