Robert J. Hawkes, KC, is lead counsel in complex class actions, defamation actions, corporate oppression actions, shareholder derivative actions and emergency injunction applications to freeze and discover assets and obtain investigation orders, asset tracing and reclaim assets transferred in fraudulent conveyances. Robert practised as an associate and partner at one of Canada’s leading firms from 1993 until 2005, gaining experience in virtually all areas of defamation and corporate and commercial litigation. In 2005, Robert joined JSS Barristers where he has continued his high-level commercial litigation practice with a particular emphasis on shareholder and governance litigation, class actions, defamation and constitutional law. Robert has led trials, appeals, arbitrations and mediations, and discipline hearings and other administrative law matters, in cases including in corporate restructuring disputes, shareholder oppression matters, derivative claims, corporate fraud, defamation and class actions. Robert’s biography can be seen at https://jssbarristers.ca/litigators/robert-j-hawkes/.
