Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP is a Toronto litigation boutique founded in 1992, representing Canadian and international businesses in high-stakes disputes across Ontario and Canada. We care about our clients and deliver practical legal, business, and risk-management solutions. By focusing on results, we stay steps ahead in creating the most strategic negotiation, arbitration, or litigation solution. We can handle any case, and AGM is ready, willing, and able to take those cases to trial. Our mission is resolving complex legal and business disputes in the most expedient manner and always with our clients’ best interest and bottom-line in mind.
We act for parties in all manner of business disputes including breach of contract claims, shareholder and partnership disputes, product liability claims, defamation / protection of reputation, insurance and bond coverage disputes, and negligence claims against professionals including lawyers, auditors, accountants, and investment advisors.
Our team of experienced competition lawyers advises businesses on compliance with the Competition Act, defends businesses targeted by Competition Bureau investigations and class actions, and assists businesses in obtaining clearance for mergers. We frequently act in Canada on multijurisdictional cartel and class action cases in collaboration with firms around the world.
We represent the interests of insurers and their insureds in a wide variety of disputes. Our specialized expertise in insurance defence includes errors and omissions claims against insureds in various professions including the securities industry, claims against directors and officers, legal expense insurance claims, fidelity and surety bond claims, and advancing subrogated claims.
Securities disputes risk not just financial loss, but also reputations and careers. We work hard to achieve the best result for clients in every securities case. We advise and represent clients facing investigations and enforcement by regulators such as the OSC and CIRO. We defend complex securities class actions brought on behalf of investors against public companies, as well as their auditors, officers, and directors. Whether at discovery, mediation, or trial, we are at home at every stage of an investor loss claim.
We have extensive experience throughout Canada in construction-related litigation, including improprieties in the bidding process, claims for construction liens, performance and labour and material payment bond claims (primarily acting for surety), breach of trust, breach of construction contract claims, delays and liquidated damages claims, and problems caused by delays, damages, increases, substandard work, and debts guarantees.
Sometimes business relationships don’t work out. We can help, whether by assisting shareholders, partners, creditors, joint ventures, franchisors/franchisees or other business stakeholders resolve their disputes. We handle and provide strategic advice for oppression remedies, winding-up applications, lawsuits for damages, and other similar proceedings. We also assist boards and shareholders navigate corporate governance issues during business disputes.
We help businesses deal with government and regulators at their most difficult times: when government and regulators have started prosecutions or investigations. We defend businesses during all phases of a regulatory or administrative proceeding, including investigations, hearings before administrative tribunals, and judicial reviews. We fight city hall, as well as provincial and federal authorities. We keep governments accountable by challenging their decisions in the courts or administrative tribunals on behalf of our clients.
Michael Binetti +1 416-360-0777 [email protected]
Hilary Book +1 416-613-9161 [email protected]
Kenneth Dekker +1 416-360-6902 [email protected]
Masiel Matus +1 416-360-5794 [email protected]
Christopher Somerville +1 416-360-2838 [email protected]
David Vaillancourt +1 416-360-8100 [email protected]
