Dillon Collett has joined Naymark Law as an associate.
Dillon is a 2018 call with a broad civil, commercial and regulatory litigation practice. Before joining Naymark Law, he worked at a large Bay Street firm.
Check out Dillon’s bio here.
Daniel Naymark has been recognized in the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada in the areas of Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Administrative and Public Law, highlighting his accomplishments as an industry leader in these areas.
Read more here.
Daniel Naymark has been recognized as a leading lawyer in corporate-commercial litigation in the 2021 Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading lawyers and law firms in Canada. Its rankings are based on an extensive peer survey process in which over 10,000 participants from law firms across Canada participate.
The Directory can be found here.
Jamie Gibson and Michael Byers of Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP published an article on proposed reforms to the Securities Act entitled “The Final Report of the Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce: What Securities Litigators Need to Know”. Read it here.
Stephanie Fong has joined Naymark Law as an associate.
Stephanie is a 2019 call with a broad civil, commercial and regulatory litigation practice. Before joining Naymark Law, she was a law clerk at the Federal Court of Appeal and an associate at a boutique firm.
Check out Steph’s bio here.
Jamie Gibson presented at the Tenth Annual Securities Symposium held by The Advocates’ Society, on a panel entitled “The Ontario Securities Commission: The Decade in Review”. Together with former Staff colleagues from the Enforcement Branch of the Commission, Jamie discussed recent developments in securities investigations and proceedings from the defence perspective, including: the challenges with big data in cryptocurrency-related investigations by the Commission, recent developments in credit for cooperation given by Staff, and the challenges posed by the new virtual Commission hearings.
Daniel Naymark presented as a member of a panel at a webinar organized by the Canadian Network of National Associations of Regulators, on the subject of regulating professionals facing addiction and mental health issues. This was an update of a presentation at CNAR’s 2019 annual conference in the fall of 2019, which had been ranked among the conference’s top 5 presentations by conference attendees.
On May 20, 2020, Justice Perell of the Superior Court issued a decision invalidating the Conservative Party of Canada’s disqualification of conservative leadership candidate Jim Karahalios from the CPC’s leadership contest. The Court found that the Party’s appeals committee which had disqualified Mr. Karahalios did not have the power to do so. The Court granted summary judgment in favour of Mr. Karahalios accordingly, and also requiring the CPC to return Mr. Karahalios’ campaign donations in the possession of its fundraising arm in accordance with the leadership contest’s rules.
Daniel Naymark and Jamie Gibson represented Mr. Karahalios on his successful challenge. The Court’s ruling is available here.
The Superior Court struck out a claim brought by an immigration consultant, Mr. Dean, against a number of other immigration consultants who had filed complaints about Mr. Dean’s conduct with their regulator, the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council. The Court found that Mr. Dean’s allegation that the complainants had conspired with the regulator to unlawfully remove Mr. Dean from the regulator’s board of directors had no chance of success and should not proceed forward. Jamie Gibson successfully represented the complainant immigration consultants who obtained the ruling striking out Mr. Dean’s claim against them, which is available here.
On April 13, 2020, Justice Perell of the Superior Court of Justice rejected the Conservative Party of Canada’s request that the Court strike out an urgent judicial challenge by CPC leadership candidate Jim Karahalios, in which he is asking the Court to invalidate his disqualification from the leadership contest. The Party relied in part on an argument that the Party’s own internal rules prevent candidates from challenging the Party’s decisions. Justice Perell ruled that Mr. Karahalios’ challenge can proceed and set an expedited timetable for it to be heard on May 15.
Daniel Naymark and Jamie Gibson act for Mr. Karahalios. The ruling can be found here.
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