Photo: Deborah Templer, Michael Feder
Torys has announced plans to expand into Vancouver and hired two litigation and dispute resolution partners in Michael Feder and Deborah Templer.
According to the firm, the moves bolster its national litigation platform as disputes become increasingly complex and class actions rise in prevalence throughout the country. Both Feder and Templer were partners at McCarthy Tétrault.
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Michael Feder
Feder has tackled commercial and public law disputes involving product liability, mass tort, and class actions. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, he has defended government cost-recovery claims involving alleged mass and toxic torts and public harms.
The Lexpert-ranked lawyer has worked on complex class action and other aggregated litigation, mass tort and product liability cases, shareholders’ disputes, securities litigation, contractual disputes, and constitutional claims. He was involved in a trial of common issues in two consumer class actions.
Feder has acted in Supreme Court of Canada appeals involving torts, class actions, contracts, trusts, privacy, civil procedure, health, freedom of expression, tax, privilege, freedom of information, standing, religious freedom, and administrative law. He has been appointed amicus curiae by the chief justice of Canada.
He has counted among his clients Philip Morris International, Meta Platforms, 3M Company, Juul Labs, ING Bank (now Tangerine Bank), Novartis, Uber, Endo Pharmaceuticals (now Keenova), Glencore, Bosch, Takata, Huawei, Rio Tinto, Masco, International Motors, lululemon, Enbridge, LifeLabs, Concord Pacific, Innergex, CPPIB, KF Aerospace, Domtar, Vantage Airport Group, FortisBC, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Deborah Templer
Templer has worked on complex, bet-the-company disputes with domestic and global implications. Her commercial litigation practice concentrates on product liability, mass tort, and class action matters.
She has defended domestic and foreign-based companies in multijurisdictional class actions, including aggregated cost recovery suits brought by governments stemming from alleged mass toxic torts and public harms. She has also tackled related pre‑litigation matters.
The Lexpert-ranked lawyer specializes in contractual claims, economic torts, and shareholder remedies, including the oppression remedy. She has worked across the pharmaceuticals, consumer and food products, telecommunications, infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, and financial services sectors.
Templer chairs Pro Bono Ontario’s board of directors and co-chairs the American Bar Association’s class and derivative actions subcommittee (business and corporate litigation section). She is also a director at The Advocates’ Society.
She has represented Philip Morris International, 3M Company, Juul Labs, Novartis, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly, Masco, Diageo Canada, Bacardi Canada, Corby Spirit and Wine, Bell Canada, Molson Coors, and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges.
Torys managing partner Matt Cockburn described Feder and Templer as “outstanding litigators with an exceptional track record in high-stakes disputes.”