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.