Wendy Berman

Practice Areas

Significant experience in complex cross-border commercial and securities-related litigation, often involving parallel regulatory, criminal and class action proceedings. Provides strategic advice and representation to companies and their directors/officers on allegations of corporate misconduct and has extensive experience dealing with Canadian regulatory and law enforcement agencies. Recognized for being insightful and creative, career highlights include successfully representing clients in some of Canada’s largest investigations and proceedings involving disclosure violations, insider trading, market manipulation and other fraud-related allegations, corruption and anti-bribery, shareholders’ remedies, litigation aspects of proxy contests, take-over bids and other acquisitions, corporate governance and securities class actions.

Professional Memberships

From June 2020 to December 2021, she served as Vice-Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission. During her tenure, she was a member of the Commission, its board of directors, adjudicative committee and executive team.

Wendy is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a member of the Canadian Bar Association, The Advocates’ Society and the Women’s Law Association of Ontario. Wendy is a former member of Board of Directors of the Advocates’ Society, the Securities Proceedings Advisory Committee and the Executive Committee of the Women in White Collar Defense Association.

Career

Ontario Bar, 1992

British Columbia Bar, 2015