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Gannon G. Beaulne

Associate

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T: 416.777.4805

Toronto

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T: 416.777.4805


Toronto

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Gannon Beaulne combines an analytical approach, deep knowledge of the law, and incisive advocacy style to bring focus to complex, large-scale, and multi-party disputes, often involving international dimensions. His clients include Canadian and foreign public and private companies of all sizes, professionals (including lawyers, auditors, accountants, and doctors), and governmental or state-owned entities.

Gannon’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, class actions, and international arbitration. He has experience in motions, applications, trials, and appeals, in arbitration and before all levels of court in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. He recently argued fully electronic trials before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and an international commercial arbitration panel in London, England. He also recently made submissions on private international law before the Court of Appeal for Ontario while successfully seeking the dismissal of a $1.85-billion proposed class action at the certification stage.

A regular writer and speaker on a wide variety of litigation and arbitration topics, Gannon’s work has been published in The Advocates’ Journal, the Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Review, the Alberta Law Review, and elsewhere. He also contributes to resources on Canadian law, having helped with an online arbitration-law service and with updating a loose-leaf treatise, Class Actions Law and Practice. He has been interviewed on the radio and quoted in print media on several occasions. And he often speaks at internal and external legal events and conferences.

Gannon is an active member of the Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners, The Advocates’ Society, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and the Ontario Bar Association. He volunteers as Pro Bono Ontario duty counsel at the Superior Court of Justice.

Education

Queen’s University, BA (Honours), 2009, with distinction, Dean’s Honour List, Dr. Robert John Wilson Scholarship Queen’s University, JD, 2012, Dean’s List, John D.B. Walton Scholarship in Administrative Law International Business Law Certificate, Bader International Study Centre (England), Queen’s University 

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 2013

Recent Experience

Bureau Veritas SA, a publicly traded international certification and testing agency, in its successful defence of a $1.85-billion proposed class action commenced against it and Loblaws Companies Limited alleging they neglected to warn workers of structural deficiencies in the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. Das v George Weston Ltd, 2018 ONCA 1053, aff’g 2017 ONSC 5583.
Representation of accounting and law firms in proposed class actions regarding Canada Revenue Agency reassessments of taxpayers who had participated in Canadian charitable-giving tax shelter programs.
Representation of a First Nation in successfully obtaining a Mareva injunction to freeze the assets of alleged fraudsters. Kashechewan First Nation v Kirkland, 2018 ONSC 3014.
Representation of a hospitality company in successfully seeking the dismissal of a $20-million breach of contract claim on a summary judgment motion, before the Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Westmount-Keele Limited v Royal Host REIT, 2017 ONCA 673.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, a Canadian independent fuel retailer, in the defence of its acquisition of Pioneer Energy, including successfully resisting a hold-separate order in 8 of 14 local communities in issue. The Commissioner of Competition v Parkland Industries Ltd, 2015 CACT 4.
Representation of companies in multiple proposed class actions regarding alleged price-fixing in the auto parts and other industries.

Insights, News & Events

Blog

Are Gun Manufacturers Liable for Mass Shootings?

March 01, 2021
       

Articles

Enforcing Standard-Form Arbitration Agreements in Class Actions: Lessons from the Uber Saga in Canada

February 23, 2021
       

Blog

A Clarified Approach to Pure Economic Loss Claims

February 01, 2021
       

Blog

Supreme Court of Canada Clarifies Approach to Pure Economic Loss Claims

November 16, 2020
       

Blog

Supreme Court Reaffirms Low Bar for Authorizing Class Actions in Québec

November 09, 2020
       

Articles

Richard Swan and Gannon Beaulne in Canadian Mining Journal

June 24, 2020
       

Blog

Canadian Companies May Now Be Sued in Canada for Alleged Human Rights Abuses Abroad, Rules Supreme Court of Canada

April 02, 2020
       

Articles

The Rana Plaza Class Action: Lessons for Class Action Lawyers

April 24, 2019
       

Blog

Court of Appeal Affirms Decision to Dismiss the Rana Plaza Class Action

December 21, 2018
       

Blog

Ontario Court of Appeal Grounds Class Action Jurisdiction Challenges

October 26, 2017
       

Updates

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rana Plaza Class Action

October 06, 2017
       

Blog

Keeping up with the Convention: Ontario Modernizes Its International Commercial Arbitration Regime

June 20, 2017
       

Articles

Canada: Arbitration

December 09, 2016
       

Blog

Have a Contract in Canada? Your Class Action Risk is Greater Than You May Think

July 19, 2016
       

Articles

Parliamentary Restrictions on Judicial Discretion in Sentencing

2016
       

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