Clyde & Co’s Canadian offices located in Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver advise on all aspects of insurance defence and coverage, commercial and construction litigation, class action defence, arbitration and mediation.
The firm’s top-rated lawyers have a deep understanding of the insurance industry and its unique ways of doing business. Working closely with the firm’s 50+ international offices, they assist major insurers, licensed intermediaries and businesses with multi-jurisdictional dispute resolution, worldwide and domestic compliance initiatives that cover a full range of issues, claims monitoring, claims auditing, and risk management consulting.
Particular areas of expertise include:
Accountants and auditors’ liability
Alternative dispute resolution
Civil and commercial litigation
Construction & infrastructure
Cyber-risk
D&O liability
Insurance coverage and monitoring
Insurance law
Insurance regulatory
Insurance subrogation
Insurance wording services
Municipal and government liability
Personal Injury
Product liability
Product recalls
Professional discipline Professional liability
Property insurance litigation
Reinsurance
Risk management
Sports, entertainment & recreation litigation and claims
Transportation
White collar and government investigations
PARTNER PROFILES
Montréal
Louis-Philippe Constant, LLB (Montréal). Called to the Québec Bar: 2002.
Nathalie David, LLB (Montréal). Called to the Québec Bar: 1992.
Jo-Anne Demers, CRI (Laval), LLB (Laval). Called to the Québec Bar: 1992.
Robert Emblem, BCom (McGill), LLB (Civil Law) (Montréal), LLB (Common Law) (Queen’s University). Called to the Québec Bar: 1992. Called to the Ontario Bar: 1992.
Carolena Gordon, BA (Concordia), BCL (McGill), LLB (McGill). Called to the Québec Bar: 1992.
Caroline Malo, LLB (Montréal). Called to the Québec Bar: 1996.
Trevor McCann, BA (Saskatchewan), BCL (McGill), LLB (McGill). Called to the Québec Bar: 1998.
Dominic Naud, LLB (Montréal). Called to the Québec Bar: 1996.
Toronto
Karen Earl, BA (Hons) (Queen’s University), LLB (Windsor). Called to the Ontario Bar: 1995.
Keith Geurts, LLB (University of Leeds England) 1995, LLB (University of Ottawa) 1997. Called to the Ontario Bar: 1999
Heather Gray, BA (Hons) (University of Toronto), LLB (Ottawa). Called to the Ontario Bar: 2004.
George Karayannides, BA (York), LLB (Windsor). Called to the Ontario Bar: 1986.
Roderic McLauchlan, BCL/LLB (McGill). Called to Québec Bar: 1998. Qualified as a solicitor of the Law Society of England and Wales: 2003. Called to the Ontario Bar: 2010.
John Nicholl, BCL (McGill), LLB (McGill). Called to the Québec Bar: 1980. Called to the Ontario Bar: 2009.
Ellen Snow, JD (University of Toronto) 2005. Called to the Ontario Bar: 2006.
Jamie Spotswood, LLB (Queen’s University) 2006. Called to the Ontario Bar: 2007.
Vancouver
Mark Braidwood, BA (University of British Columbia), LLB (University of Kent/ University of New Brunswick). Called to the BC Bar: 1997.
Seema Lal, BA (University of British Columbia), LLB (University of British Columbia). Called to the BC Bar: 2001.
William Knutson, LLB (University of British Columbia), LLM (London School of Economics). Called to the BC Bar: 1980.
Vanessa Reakes, BA (Simon Fraser University), LLB (University of Manitoba). Called to the BC Bar: 2009.
Don Smith, BA (University of Regina), JD (University of Saskatchewan). Called to the BC Bar: 1991.
Craig Wallace, BSc (University of British Columbia), PEng (British Columbia), LLB (University of British Columbia). Called to the BC Bar: 1984. Called to the Alberta Bar: 2015.
COUNSEL
Montréal
Noémie Bégin, BCL/LLB (McGill). Called to the Québec Bar: 2011.
Attieha R. Chamaa, LLB (Montréal). Called to the Québec Bar: 2008.
Prachi Shah, BCL/LLB (McGill). Called to the Québec Bar: 2008.
Catherine Tyndale, BA (Carleton University, Ottawa), BCL (McGill). Called to the Québec Bar: 1991.
Fanny Vienneau, LLB (Montréal). Called to the Québec Bar: 1996. Called to the State Bar of California: 2000.
Toronto
Joshua Henderson, BSc (University of Waterloo), JD (Osgoode Hall Law School), ALM (Harvard). Called to the Ontario Bar: 2009.
Kyle Magee, BA (Toronto), LLB (Queen’s University). Called to the Ontario Bar: 2009.
Barry Stork, BSc (Toronto), JD (York). Called to the Ontario Bar: 2011.
Vancouver
J. Marc MacEwing, BA (Hons) (University of Victoria), LLB (University of British Columbia). Called to the BC Bar: 1980.
Bryan Shapiro, BA (University of Manitoba), LLB (University of British Columbia). Called to the BC Bar: 1971.
Jim White, BSc (Queens University), PEng (British Columbia), LLB (University of British Columbia). Called to the BC Bar: 1991.