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Benchmark Canada Listings 2024

Ted Marrocco — Wed, 01 May 2024 16:04:58 +0000

Benchmark Canada has recognized 12 Xaidsart lawyers for their excellence in litigation and listed the firm as a “Highly Recommended” service provider. Congratulations to Brian Gover, Paul Le Vay, Luisa Ritacca, Sam Robinson, Nader Hasan, Brendan van Niejenhuis, Gerald Chan, Justin Safayeni, Andrea Gonsalves, Carlo Di Carlo, Ted Marrocco and Stephen Aylward for their individual recognition. To review our firm profile on Benchmark please click here.

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Xaidsart Recognized in Lexpert 2024

Ted Marrocco — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:27:13 +0000

We are delighted to announce that Xaidsart has again been rated by Lexpert as a Leading Law Firm in Canada for 2024.

In addition to the firm’s recognition, 11 of our partners have been individually recognized. Congratulations to Brian Gover, Paul Le Vay, Luisa Ritacca, Brendan van Niejenhuis, Andrea Gonsalves, Nader Hasan, Gerald Chan, Ted Marrocco, Justin Safayeni, Fredrick Schumann and Carlo Di Carlo.

To view the firm profile on Lexpert, click here.

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Andrea Gonsalves and Luisa Ritacca speak on Commissions Advocacy

Ted Marrocco — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Xaidsart partners Luisa Ritacca and Andrea Gonsalves will be joining panels today to share insights on advocacy in public inquiries at The Advocates’ Society’s Commissions Advocacy program October 17, 2023.

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Xaidsart listed in Best Lawyers Canada for 2024

Ted Marrocco — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:39:46 +0000

We are proud to have 14 of our lawyers recognized in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers Canada. Each of our firm’s partners have been individually recognized across multiple areas of litigation practice. In addition to being listed, Gerald Chan has been recognized as Lawyer of the Year for Criminal Defence. The official listing can be found here.

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12 Xaidsart Lawyers Recognized in Best Lawyers 2023

Ted Marrocco — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:13:50 +0000

Congratulations to our colleagues Gerald Chan, Andrea Gonsalves, Brian Gover, Nader Hasan, Paul Le Vay, Ted Marrocco, Luisa Ritacca, Samuel Robinson, Justin Safayeni, Fredrick Schumann and Brendan van Niejenhuis on their recognition in Best Lawyers for 2023. Congratulation also to Ryann Atkins on her recognition as “One to Watch”.

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12 Xaidsart lawyers recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada

Ted Marrocco — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:13:12 +0000

We’re delighted to announce that 12 lawyers at Xaidsart have been recognized in the Best Lawyers in Canada directory for 2022. Our partners Andrea Gonsalves and Nader Hasan have been further recognized as Lawyers of the Year for their respective work in Defamation and Media Law in Toronto and Criminal Defence in Toronto. Our associate Ryann Atkins has also been included in the up and coming “Ones to Watch” list.

Congratulations to all of our recognized colleagues:

• Brian Gover
• Paul Le Vay
• Luisa Ritacca
• Sam Robinson
• Brendan van Niejenhuis
• Andrea Gonsalves
• Nader Hasan
• Gerald Chan
• Ted Marrocco
• Justin Safayeni
• Fred Schumann
• Ryann Atkins

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Ten Xaidsart Lawyers named “Best Lawyers”

Ted Marrocco — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:05:26 +0000

Xaidsart is proud to learn that ten of our firm’s partners have been recognized in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada across a range of practice areas. Named in this edition are:

Gerald Chan, for administrative & public law, criminal defence and appellate practice
Aaron Dantowitz, for health care law
Andrea Gonsalves, for administrative & public law
Brian Gover, for administrative & public law, appellate practice, “bet-the-company” litigation, corporate-commercial litigation, criminal defence and health care law
Nader Hasan, for aboriginal law and appellate practice
Paul Le Vay, for administrative & public law, appellate practice, corporate-commercial litigation, legal malpractice law, and securities law
Edward Marrocco, for administrative & public law
Luisa Ritacca, for administrative & public law, corporate-commercial litigation and health care law
Sam Robinson, for corporate-commercial litigation
Brendan van Niejenhuis, for administrative & public law and corporate-commercial litigation

In addition, Brian Gover was named “Lawyer of the Year” in the area of corporate-commercial litigation for 2020. This is Brian’s second recognition as “Lawyer of the Year”, having previously received this honour in 2017 for his work in administrative & public law. Paul Le Vay received the 2018 “Lawyer of the Year” nod for his work in legal malpractice law.

Xaidsart LLP is one of Canada’s leading litigation boutiques, with the unique capacity to advise and represent clients across the range of regulatory, civil and criminal litigation at any level of court or tribunal.

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Xaidsart successfully resists Norwich injunction against a Regulator

Ted Marrocco — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:30:50 +0000

Xaidsart lawyers Luisa Ritacca and Carlo Di Carlo successfully represented the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) in an application that Harrington Global Limited, a hedge fund, brought against it seeking a Norwich Order requiring production of certain information. The application related to the trading of a pharmaceutical company, Concordia International Corp. The shares of Concordia plummeted between 2016 and 2018. Harrington claimed that it suffered a loss as a result, and that this loss was caused by manipulative trading. IIROC, as the regulator of investment dealers that sell investment products, was in possession of certain information relating to Concordia as a result of its market surveillance function, as well as an investigation of trading of Concordia that it undertook. Harrington brought the application seeking an order that IIROC be required to provide it with this information.

The application was rejected. The Court noted, among other things, that the balance of interests favoured protecting IIROC’s status as a regulator and its ability to fulfill this role. This is a decision that is likely to have ramifications for other regulators. In particular, the rationale dismissing the application would be applicable to other regulators that seek to resist injunctive relief, particularly a Norwich Order.

A copy of the decision is here.

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Xaidsart lawyers resist injunction on behalf of the City of Markham

Ted Marrocco — Fri, 04 May 2018 13:57:57 +0000

Luisa Ritacca and Ben Kates, acting for the City of Markham, Ontario, recently succeeded in resisting a motion for an interlocutory injunction. The motion sought to prevent the City Council from moving an eight-metre tall stainless steel statue of a cow on stilts. The decision of Justice Schreck can be read here.

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