Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

The Ontario disputes group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP is routinely instructed by clients in the financial services, mining, automotive, insurance and pharmaceutical sectors for its commercial litigation expertise. Catherine Beagan Flood and Iris Fischer share leadership of the practice. Beagan Flood specializes in the defence of privacy, antitrust, insurance, product liability, misleading advertising, telecommunications and consumer-protection class actions. Fischer handles commercial litigation, internal and government investigations and white-collar matters, and has noted media and defamation expertise. Also noted are Michael Barrack (corporate and commercial, taxation, securities, constitutional and insolvency litigation, as well as arbitration); Jeff Galway (corporate/commercial, securities, constitutional, competition and pension law matters); Gordon McKee (class action defence and product liability claims); and Bradley Berg (commercial litigation, shareholder disputes and administrative law matters).