Simon's practice focuses on commercial and corporate litigation, directors’ and officers’ liability, securities litigation, class actions, and professional negligence. He represents a broad range of clients, including various regulated professionals, directors and officers, oppressed shareholders, and public and private companies. Simon appears regularly at all levels of court in Ontario and Canada-wide, as well as administrative tribunals in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba regulating securities and capital markets, accountants, and lawyers. Simon also regularly mediates and arbitrates commercial matters. Simon’s excellence in advocacy is consistently recognized by his peers and leading legal publications, and in 2019 was invited to become a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an honour extended to less than one-half of one percent of North American lawyers, recognizing excellence in trial advocacy. Simon is on the Board of the Directors of The Advocates’ Society, a Member of the Securities Proceedings Advisory Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission, and is regularly invited to present at legal seminars and conferences. Simon is the co-author of a text published by LexisNexis titled Directors’ and Officers’ Liability in Canada.
