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Nathan J. Shaheen

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T: 416.777.7306


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Toronto

  • Education
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  • Recent Experience
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services
  • Recent Experience
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services

Nathan Shaheen is a litigator specializing in economic crimes and other complex commercial matters. He combines legal expertise with unwavering focus on his clients’ broader business objectives.

Nathan’s economic crimes practice is focused on domestic and international fraud and asset recovery. He regularly investigates financial wrongdoing, traces and safeguards misappropriated assets, and advances asset recovery litigation against perpetrators and third party facilitators of economic crimes. To do so, Nathan works collaboratively with external investigators, auditors and law enforcement agencies, and draws on his deep knowledge of Canada’s fraud and money laundering laws. Nathan’s asset recovery experience also extends to the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.

Nathan also frequently advises clients on other complex commercial matters, including class proceedings, contract disputes and professional negligence claims, particularly those involving auditors. He has appeared before Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, Divisional Court and Court of Appeal, as well as before the Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada. Nathan also regularly acts as duty counsel to self-represented litigants in association with Pro Bono Law Ontario.

Nathan recently co-authored the Canadian chapter of Asset Recovery 2019, a publication that compiles insights of leading asset recovery lawyers from around the world. He also regularly contributes to other leading publications and presents on various topics including fraud, asset tracing and corruption. Nathan has lectured on advanced commercial litigation at Osgoode Hall Law School, and serves as a supervising lawyer to the Investor Protection Clinic. He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Toronto Lawyers Association and the Advocates’ Society. Nathan is also an affiliate of the Association of Certified Forensic Investigators of Canada.

Education

University of Western Ontario, BA (Hons., Political Science), 2007 Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, LLB, 2010 

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 2011

Recent Experience

Representation of Optiva Inc. before the Ontario Securities Commission in successfully resisting ESW Capital’s application for relief from the mandatory minimum tender requirement applicable to take-over bids under National Instrument 62-104 - Take-Over Bids and Issuer Bids.
Representation of the former auditors of Buckingham Securities in the Superior Court of Justice and in the Ontario Court of Appeal in the successful defence of a class action, and in securing the dismissal of a negligence claim against the defendant accounting firm.
A Swiss-based organization, the Bruno Manser Fund, with a first-of-its-kind application for a Norwich Pharmacal “disclosure” order to obtain information for use in connection with a potential private criminal prosecution relating to the alleged money laundering in Canada of the proceeds of Malaysian political corruption.
Pro Bono Law Ontario, as counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Hinse v Canada (Attorney General) on the issue of indemnification for legal costs in private pro bono litigation. Hinse v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 35
For the joint liquidators of Stanford International Bank in recovery efforts arising from losses in the amount of $5.5 billion, the world's second largest Ponzi scheme.
For a significant Ontario construction firm in recovery efforts arising from an approximately $8-million kickback scheme.

Insights, News & Events

Blog

No Longer a Private Member's Bill: Minister of Justice Proposes Legal Single Event Sport Betting in Canada

November 27, 2020
       

Blog

Pandemic Payoff: Can the AGCO, and the Potential for Single-Event Wagering, Reinvigorate Legal Online Gaming in Ontario?

November 13, 2020
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones Names New Partners

April 06, 2020
       

Blog

Supreme Court Denies Leave to Appeal Dismissal of Auditor Negligence Claim

May 06, 2019
       

Articles

Practice Alert: UK court accepts jurisdiction in hotly-contested Russian dispute

April 16, 2019
       

Articles

Canadian Corporate Criminal Liability

March 07, 2019
       

Announcements

Getting the Deal Through: Asset Recovery 2019

December 03, 2018
       

Blog

Ontario Court of Appeal Affirms Limits on Auditor Liability

September 07, 2018
       

Articles

Canada court clarifies test for granting Mareva injunctions

June 27, 2018
       

Speaking Engagements

Nathan Shaheen on International Trends in Corruption

May 02, 2018
       

Blog

Pumping the Procedural Brakes: Arbitration Clause Stays Potential Uber Class Action

February 14, 2018
       

Blog

Certification Denied in Proposed Class Action Against Hydro One Alleging Widespread Billing Problems

December 12, 2017
       

Blog

Security for Costs Decision Allows Significant Recognition and Enforcement Appeal to Proceed

November 01, 2017
       

Articles

Maureen Ward and Nathan Shaheen on Asset Recovery

October 30, 2017
       

In the News

Lincoln Caylor and Nathan Shaheen in Law Times on Tracy v. Iran

August 15, 2017
       

Guides

Looking Forward: Canadian Class Actions in 2017

March 02, 2017
       

Articles

Corporate Criminal Liability in Canada - Is the End Nigh?

December 01, 2016
       

Articles

Getting the Deal Through: Asset Recovery 2017

September 01, 2016
       

In the News

Caylor and Shaheen: Terrorism means foreign states liable in Canada

July 12, 2016
       

Articles

Terrorism Means Foreign States Liable in Canada

July 11, 2016
       

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