79 Wellington St W, Suite 3000, Box 270, TD Ctr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2006 (ON)
Deborah is recognized as a leading lawyer in Canada in complex product liability cases, with a national practice defending clients in multi-jurisdictional product liability and mass tort actions. Deborah has unique expertise in consumer class actions and government-initiated health-care cost recovery actions involving allegations of a failure to warn of addiction, of health-related risks, and of the risk of environmental contamination. She has led or assisted on the most significant consumer product liability cases in recent Canadian history, including mandates for Philip Morris International, Endo Pharmaceuticals, JUUL Labs, 3M Company, Molson Coors, Behr Process Corporation, and their respective Canadian affiliates. Deborah is regularly retained in bet-the-company litigation, where plaintiffs are seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in losses, including in the long-running Canadian tobacco, opioid, vape and, most recently, PFAS litigation.
On May 20, 2015, BCE Inc. (BCE) and Rogers Communications Inc. (Rogers) completed their acquisition of GLENTEL Inc. (GLENTEL), a Canadian-based multi-carrier mobile products distributor.
Petroamerica Oil Corp. and Suroco Energy Inc. fended off a hostile bid by Vetra Holding S.a.r.l. and Vetra Acquisition Ltd. and completed a plan of arrangement pursuant to which Petroamerica acquired all the issued and outstanding shares of Suroco for an approximate total value of $108.6 million.
