Kent is the Head of the Litigation Department of Davies in Toronto. He specializes in complex, high-stakes commercial litigation. Recognized repeatedly as one of Canada’s leading trial and appellate counsel, Kent is trusted by clients to act on their most critical matters.

Described by clients as “one of the premier litigators in the country,” Kent appears regularly in courts at every level throughout Canada. (Client, Chambers Canada) He also acts before a number of tribunals in Canada, including the Ontario Securities Commission and the Competition Tribunal.

Lead counsel in many of Canada’s most closely watched cases, Kent has succeeded in obtaining numerous precedent-setting decisions in areas as diverse as oppression, plans of arrangement, class actions, corporate law, securities law, tort law, competition law, tax law, voting law and defamation, including on a number of occasions in the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also succeeded in obtaining numerous Awards for clients in complex domestic and international arbitrations in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia and Africa.

As one client says, “He’s indefatigable; he has a motor like no one else” and a “very strong sense of how to move a case forward, how to organise the tactics of a case and how to manage interactions with the court system.” (Chambers Canada)

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