Dana M. Peebles is past Chair of the national Class Actions team at McCarthy Tétrault LLP and a partner in the Litigation group in Toronto. He focuses his civil litigation practice on class actions, securities, and corporate-commercial litigation. Mr. Peebles has acted for leading Canadian companies in the trial and appellate courts including the Supreme Court of Canada. He provides ongoing strategic advice to a number of commercial clients. Mr. Peebles was co-counsel for defendants in the first two statutory secondary market securities class action leave motions in Canada. His recent class retainers include defending a Canadian bank, an international electronics company, a leading health care provider, and other significant public companies in data breach actions; mining, accounting, and cannabis public issuers in securities class actions; a major international chemical company, a leading electronics manufacturer, and an American airline company in anti-trust actions; several large Canadian companies in pension class actions; and several manufacturers in consumer product class actions. He is widely recognized in the leading legal ranking publications. He is a past Director of The Advocates’ Society, and a current Director of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.