Davies | James W. E. Doris

Litigation

Competition & Foreign Investment Review

Financial Restructuring & Insolvency

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Canadian Bar Association

Reform Of The Tribunal Process

Issue Profile: Commercial Law Update - New Ontario Limitations Act Creates Uncertainty in Commercial Transactions

Ontario Bar, 1992

McGill University, B.C.L, LL.B.
University of Toronto, B.A. (Honours)

Jim Doris is a partner in the litigation group with a broad corporate and commercial litigation practice. He specializes in general civil litigation with an emphasis on shareholder and oppression remedy actions, class actions, contested mergers and acquisitions and securities disputes, insolvency, and competition matters. He has appeared as counsel before a variety of courts and administrative tribunals in Canada, including the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the British Columbia Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Canada, the Competition Tribunal, the Ontario Securities Commission and The Toronto Stock Exchange.

Jim has been involved in a number of important cases. He successfully represented Pacifica Papers in one of the leading contested plan of arrangement and oppression remedy cases, and acted for the Ontario Securities Commission in the Ainsley Financial case, a leading administrative law decision, which considered the Commission's jurisdiction to issue policy statements. More recently, he acted for Canada Pipe Company in an abuse of dominance proceeding before the Competition Tribunal. He has acted in a number of actions commenced against directors and officers of leading Canadian companies, including acting for the former directors of Royal Trustco Limited in a class action commenced by shareholders. He also acted in a number of large insolvency and restructuring matters, including Olympia & York, Cadillac Fairview, Confederation Treasury Services Limited, White Rose Crafts and Nursery Sales Limited and Phillip Services Limited.

Jim teaches civil litigation at the Law Society of Upper Canada and is an instructor at the Osgoode Hall Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop.

He received his B.A. (Honours) from the University of Toronto in 1986 and LL.B. and B.C.L. from McGill University in 1990 where he was recognized as a University Scholar. He became a partner of the firm in 1994.

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