Dentons

Environment and Natural Resources; Litigation and Dispute Resolution; Real Estate; Automotive; Financial Institutions; and Manufacturing

Global Inclusion, Diversity & Equity Officer

Kate is a partner in the litigation group. She regularly acts as counsel in a variety of corporate and commercial matters with a focus on securities and investment dealer disputes and regulatory compliance and also in the areas of environmental, real estate and product liability.

Kate has experience in all levels of court and before a variety of regulatory bodies and tribunals, including the Environmental Review Tribunal, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, Ontario Securities Commission, IIROC and the Mutual Fund Dealers’ Association. She provides valued litigation and business advice to clients including with respect to risk management and mitigation.

Kate has experience acting in connection with contaminated land disputes and environmental spills both in the litigation and regulatory context. She has experience in dealing with site clean-up, risk assessment and indemnity claims.

She has litigated a number of complex, multi-party disputes involving complicated expert evidence in a range of areas from building science, structural engineering and real estate valuation to organic chemistry and environmental science.

Kate is Dentons' Canada Region Co-Chair of Diversity and Inclusion. Dentons was named one of Canada’s Best Employers for New Canadians in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Read Kate's full biography here.

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Member, Ontario Bar Association, Environmental Law and Pensions Sections Member, Canadian Bar Association Member, The Advocates’ Society

Osgoode Hall Law School, 1996, LLB University of Toronto, 1993, BA (Hons)