Ryan Morris

Ryan is a trusted advisor and advocate for corporations, boards, financial institutions and individuals on their most complex and contentious disputes. Ryan has had significant experience and success defending securities class actions (often with parallel actions in the US), securities transactional disputes and securities regulatory investigations and proceedings. He has successfully litigated some of the most significant recent securities transactional disputes in Canada, including contested transactions, takeover bids, proxy contests, poison pills and statutory plan of arrangement proceedings. These mandates often involve oppression and derivative claims, dissent and fair value proceedings, directors’ and officers’ liability advice, governance issues and using regulatory and legal processes creatively to solve difficult problems. Ryan is regularly sought out as defence counsel on securities class actions, particularly those related to financial products, including exchange traded funds, mutual funds, syndicated mortgages and cryptocurrency, and has one of the largest practices in the country in this developing area. He has represented clients in investigations and proceedings before the securities commissions in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization and various exchanges.