Christopher P. Naudie

Christopher practises corporate and commercial litigation, with a strong focus on corporate litigation, class action defence, and cross-border litigation. He is a key contact for Osler’s class action defence group, and he has acted as counsel in a number of the largest and most complex class proceedings across Canada covering a broad range of tort and statutory claims, including allegations of anticompetitive conduct, securities violations, insider trading, oppression and derivative claims, misleading advertising, product liability, economic torts, as well as negligence and fraud. Christopher has extensive experience litigating complex commercial disputes involving shareholder rights, director and officer liability, auditor’s negligence, valuation proceedings, insurance disputes, privacy and data breaches, and professional liability. Christopher has also acted in a number of leading antitrust, securities and disciplinary investigations, and enforcement proceedings, and he regularly acts in matters involving the Competition Bureau, the OSC, the RCMP/IMET and the IIROC. Christopher has argued cases before trial and appellate courts across the country, including the Ontario Court of Appeal, the BC Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.