Background

David Di Paolo is a partner at our Toronto office and is the Manager of our Toronto Commercial Litigation Group. David is also the Regional Chair of our Securities Litigation Group. David was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1998. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario Law School in 1996.

Prior to that, he received a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Biology and Psychology, graduating Summa Cum Laude.

Areas of Practice

• Securities Litigation and Regulation, including broker liability, proceedings before the Ontario Securities Commission, SRO disciplinary proceedings and charges under the Securities Act
• Shareholders' Rights Litigation, including oppression proceedings, derivative actions and shareholders' class actions
• Directors' and Officers' Liability, including shareholders' actions, creditors' actions and offences under the Securities Act and other regulatory statutes
• General Commercial Litigation, including contract disputes, lender liability and debtor/creditor rights

Rankings and Recognitions

• Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2012 (Securities Law)
• Recognized in the 2011 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Litigation – Securities)

Professional Experience and Publications

• David represents registrants and public companies and their respective officers, directors and shareholders in all manner of proceedings and prosecutions before provincial securities commissions, self-regulatory organizations such as the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada and the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada and the Courts
• David's commercial litigation practice is focused primarily in the areas of shareholders' rights, broker liability and shareholders' class actions
• Co-authored article with Kara Beitel, "No Fiduciary Standard Needed In Canada", in Advisor's Edge.

Below is a list of representative briefs:

Recent Briefs

• YBM Magnex International Inc. et al. (represented one of the respondents in OSC proceeding)
• IAMGold Corporation (represented applicant in oppression claim)
• Helix BioPharma (represented the company in proxy fight)
• Gary Hurst v. Worldsource Financial Management Inc. (represented defendants in class action)
• Research in Motion (represented senior executive in options back-dating regulatory investigation)
• Fischer v. AIC et al (represented one of the fund companies in market timing class action)
• Represented numerous MFDA and IIROC member firms and their advisors in regulatory investigations and proceedings

Professional and Community Activities

• Member of the Canadian Bar Association
• Member of the Advocates' Society
• Editor of the Brokers' Report
• Author, "The Enforcers" (Advisor's Edge Report, May 2010)