Former Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP senior litigation partner Jim Doris has joined the Capital Markets Tribunal as of April 2.
The seasoned litigator will serve as an adjudicator on the tribunal for two years. He focuses on complex commercial disputes.
Doris practised at Davies for over 25 years, tackling regulatory and civil securities-related litigation, shareholder disputes, director and officer liability, and mergers and acquisitions-related litigation. He has acted as counsel in all levels of Ontario court, the Supreme Court of Canada, and in tribunals in Canada.
He was a founding partner of litigation boutique Tyr LLP in 2019, where he has handled shareholder and oppression remedy actions, class actions, securities disputes, insolvency, gaming, and competition matters. He also sat on The Advocates' Society’s board and the Ontario Securities Commission’s securities proceeding advisory committee.
Doris acted for Agnico Eagle Mines Limited in relation to a multi-jurisdictional class action involving the nature of its public disclosure. He also helped an American International Group Inc. subsidiary to defend a court application filed by The Walt Disney Company over the arbitration of a significant insurance coverage dispute.
He represented Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. as the plaintiffs in a negligence action involving its representation by a law firm in Tax Court proceedings. Moreover, he helped a law firm defend a third-party claim accusing it of negligence.
Lexpert ranked Doris as a leading lawyer in the commercial arbitration, litigation – directors’ and officers’ liability, litigation – corporate commercial, litigation – securities, class actions, and white-collar defence and investigations categories. The Capital Markets Tribunal’s chief adjudicator, Tim Moseley, highlighted Doris’ skills, experience, and expertise.
The Capital Markets Tribunal is an independent OSC division. It can hold hearings under the Ontario Securities Act and the Commodity Futures Act; it is also authorized to independently determine all questions of fact or law in proceedings it is conducting under those laws.
Last month, the tribunal added four to its securities proceedings advisory committee.