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Clients value Faiz’s multijurisdictional experience, his ability to grasp complex issues quickly and provide creative solutions to their commercial disputes.
Faiz acts for Canadian and international clients in dispute resolution matters, with a focus on class action defence and securities litigation. Offering incisive and clear advice, he works with clients across a variety of industries, including mining, retail and technology. Faiz represents his clients before courts and tribunals across Canada. He also advises clients on regulatory and administrative law issues.
Faiz is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and the Associate Engagement Committee in our Montréal office.
Partner
Clients value Faiz’s multijurisdictional experience, his ability to grasp complex issues quickly and provide creative solutions to their commercial disputes.
Faiz acts for Canadian and international clients in dispute resolution matters, with a focus on class action defence and securities litigation. Offering incisive and clear advice, he works with clients across a variety of industries, including mining, retail and technology. Faiz represents his clients before courts and tribunals across Canada. He also advises clients on regulatory and administrative law issues.
Faiz is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and the Associate Engagement Committee in our Montréal office.
ShockWave Medical, Inc.
Acting as Canadian counsel to Nasdaq-listed Shockwave Medical, Inc., in its proposed acquisition of Nasdaq- and TSX-listed British Columbia–based Neovasc Inc., for a total transaction value of up to US$147 million consisting of a purchase price per share of cash and a contingent value right.
Cominar REIT
Acted for Cominar REIT, one of Canada's largest diversified real estate investment trusts and the largest commercial property owner in Québec, in its C$5.7-billion sale to Iris Acquisition II LP, which is an entity created by a consortium led by Canderel Real Estate Property Inc., one of Canada's largest privately held real estate companies.
SK hynix Inc. and SK hynix America Inc.
Acting for SK hynix Inc. and SK hynix America Inc. in its defence of multiple class actions across Canada alleging anticompetitive conduct in respect of the sale of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, including with respect to cross-border issues arising out of parallel U.S. class actions. Davies successfully defeated certification in both the Québec Superior Court and the Federal Court of Canada, a result that is rarely seen in competition class actions.
New Look Vision Group Inc.
Acted for New Look Vision Group Inc. in its $800-million sale to NL1 AcquireCo Inc., an entity created by funds managed by FFL Partners, LLC, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the Dr. H. Doug Barnes Family.
Alstom S.A.
Acted as Canadian counsel to Alstom S.A. in its EUR4.4-billion strategic acquisition of Bombardier Transportation.
Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd.
Acting for Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. in relation to its US$6.7-billion Oyu Tolgoi project in a proposed class action filed in the district of Montréal seeking leave proceed under the Securities Act (Québec) and certification under the Québec Code of Civil Procedure. Oyu Tolgoi is one of the world's largest new copper-gold mines and is located in the South Gobi region of Mongolia, approximately 550 km south of the capital, Ulaanbaatar, and 80 km north of the Mongolia-China border.
Egale Canada Human Rights Trust Inc.
Acting for Egale Canada, Canada's only national non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of two-spirited, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex rights, as an intervenor in a constitutional challenge to provisions of the Civil Code of Québec that infringe upon rights of trans, non-binary and intersex individuals and their children. In a major victory for human rights, the Superior Court of Quebec declared six provisions unconstitutional. An appeal to the Quebec Court of Appeal was heard in April 2022 and is currently under reserve.
SEMAFO Inc.
Acted as counsel to SEMAFO Inc. in its US$2.1-billion business combination with Endeavour Mining Corporation by way of plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (Québec).
Confidential
Acting for the plaintiff, an operator of a globally ranked, leading amusement park and resort, in connection with proceedings before the ICC International Court of Arbitration regarding a product liability claim against the defendant, an amusement park ride manufacturer.
Knight Therapeutics
Acted for Knight Therapeutics Inc. in successfully defending against the activist campaign, proxy contest and contested meeting led by Medison Biotech Ltd. with respect to Knight's 2019 annual meeting.
Guest Speaker, Université du Québec à Montréal, Department of Urban and Tourism Studies, Class EUT1411: Legal Dimensions of a City, ‘Constitution Law in Canada: Principles’; Montréal, QC
Oct. 21, 2021
Presenter, South Asian Law Students’ Association, Western University, Faculty of Law, “Bill 21 Judicial Challenge”; Webcast
Oct. 14, 2021
The Advocates’ Society, Eleventh Annual Securities Symposium, “Recent Developments in Securities Class Actions”; Webinar
Sept. 23, 2021
Vers une approche harmonisée: la coordination et la gestion des actions collectives multiterritoriales au Canada (Towards a Harmonized Approach: Coordination and Management of Multi-territorial Class Actions in Canada), author
Sept. 03, 2021 - National Collective Action Conference - Recent Developments in Québec, Canada and the United States, Vol. 481, 2021 (Montréal: Éditions Yvon Blais)
Canadian Bar Association, 2020 Constitutional Law Case Law Review, “Les revues jurisprudentielles”; Webinar
Mar. 30, 2021
Apr. 22, 2020 - In Chandler v Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, the Superior Court of Québec recently dismissed a securities class action brought against Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft (VW). It did so even though the Court had previously dismissed VW’s jurisdictional arguments at the authorization...
Jan. 14, 2020 - The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) recently rendered its much-awaited decisions in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov and companion appeals. Upon granting leave to appeal, the SCC had announced that these appeals would “provide an opportunity to consider the nature...
Québec Court of Appeal Says Current Civil Jurisdiction of the Court of Québec Is Unconstitutional
Sept. 17, 2019 - A seven-member panel of the Québec Court of Appeal (QCA) recently rendered an important decision regarding the civil and administrative jurisdiction of the Court of Québec (CQ), a provincial court. The decision follows a reference submitted to the QCA by the Québec government in the wake of a...
Québec’s Securities Tribunal Prevents Group Mach from Blocking Transat A.T./Air Canada Deal
Aug. 14, 2019 - The Tribunal administratif des marchés financiers (Québec’s securities tribunal) issued a split 2–1 decision resulting in a cease trade order on an offer made by Group Mach to acquire 19.5% of Transat A.T. Inc.’s shares. Certain features of Group Mach’s mini-tender, which was designed to...
Lessons from Latif: Guidance on the Use of Social Science Expert Evidence in Discrimination Cases, co-author
June 26, 2018 - The Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Canadian Bar Association)
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Québec, 2016
Ontario, 2015
New York, 2015
McGill University, BCL/LLB, 2014
Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) à Paris, 2013
McGill University, BA (Economics and History), 2010
Canadian Bar Association, Administrative and Constitutional Law Section, Québec Branch, Executive Committee
Fondation du Barreau du Québec, Governor of the Future
H H The Aga Khan Regional Council For Quebec Maritime Provinces, board member
Laskin Competition (Canadian Constitutional and Administrative Law), Co-coach of the UQAM Team for 2022
The Advocates’ Society, Securities Litigation Practice Group, past Member-at-Large
