 Bennett Jones 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 Gannon Beaulne combines an analytical approach and deep knowledge of the law with a practical and strategic mindset to bring clarity to complex disputes and achieve a preferred resolution. Overview Gannon’s practice focuses on complex commercial and corporate litigation, class actions, international arbitration, and public law. He has extensive trial-level and appellate experience, regularly appearing before all levels of court in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. Gannon has been recognized as a Future Star by Benchmark Litigation Canada and named to the Benchmark Litigation 40 & Under List. Gannon advises clients on a range of disputes and issues. He has particular experience with matters involving commercial contracts, negligent performance of services, professional negligence, institutional negligence, fiduciary duties, corporate oppression, shareholder and partnership disputes, legal privileges and immunities, injunctive relief, constitutional law, administrative law, statutory interpretation, private international law, letters of request (also called letters rogatory), and the recognition and enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards. A frequent writer and speaker, Gannon has been published in many academic, legal, and industry journals and other publications, including the Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Review, The Advocates’ Journal, and the Alberta Law Review. He has contributed to policy papers as well as legal treatises and similar resources. He is often invited to speak at national and international conferences and events, and has been interviewed on the radio and quoted in print media, including the Financial Post and the Toronto Star. Gannon is actively involved with the American Bar Association, including leadership of the Litigation Section, and The Advocates’ Society. Select Experience • Counsel to a foreign state owned entity in a $280-million international commercial arbitration against a Canadian company regarding a contractual dispute • 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. |