Matthew Certosimo > Borden Ladner Gervais LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices
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Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 4E3
Canada
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Matthew Certosimo
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Work Department
Labour and Employment
Position
Partner
Career
Matthew is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Labour Law. He represents employers in labour and employment-related litigation, including wrongful dismissals and labour arbitration. He frequently appears before the courts, including at the appellate level.
He also acts for employers in grievance arbitrations, matters before the Labour Relations Board, and in collective bargaining.
And he represents employers, supervisors and constructors in proceedings under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, including in defence of quasi-criminal charges further to workplace accidents and injuries.
Matthew acts for and advises private and public sector employers on a full range of labour and employment matters, including:
- dismissals and discipline
- employment contracts and policies
- human rights issues, such as discrimination and harassment
- workers’ compensation, employment standards, and occupational health and safety matters
Matthew is the co-author of Just Cause: The Law of Summary Dismissal in Canada, which is frequently cited in decisions.
Within BLG, Matthew held the role of National Leader of BLG’s Labour & Employment Group from 2011-2016, and before that was the Toronto Leader from 2008-2011.
Matthew is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Labour Law (which includes employment law), and he has held this Certified Specialist designation since 2011. Matt is the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association Randall Echlin Award for Excellence in Labour and Employment Law (2022).
He represents employers in labour and employment-related litigation, including wrongful dismissals and labour arbitration. He frequently appears before the courts, including at the appellate level.
Memberships
- Member of the Canadian Bar Association (Ontario)
- Member of the American Bar Association
- Past member, Board of Governors, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Past member, Justices of the Peace Appointments Advisory Committee, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
Education
- LLB, Dalhousie University, 1993
- BA (Hons.), Wilfrid Laurier University, 1988
Bar Admission
- Ontario, 1995
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Labour and employment
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP boasts a strong labour and employment offering, with key lawyers posted in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and Ottawa. Employment matters, labour relations, collective bargaining, occupational health and safety, privacy, pensions and benefit, and immigration matters feature among the group’s specialities. André Royer steers the sizable national group from Montreal and acts for employers in relation to unlawful dismissal, conditions of employment, occupational health and safety, and labour relations matters. Additional key figures at the Montreal office include senior counsel and collective bargaining specialist Danny Kaufer, and Maryse Tremblay, who is known for advising federally regulated employers. Key Toronto contacts include litigator Matthew Certosimo and Clifford Hart, who covers both contentious and non-contentious matters. Over in Calgary, Duncan Marsden is active in the advisory space.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Pensions
- Business immigration
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Aviation
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A